Yasutaka Nagai
Hiroshi Nagai, better known by the pseudonym Yasutaka Nagai, is a Chinese-born Japanese novelist, manga author and scenario writer. He is one of the four brothers of manga artist Go Nagai.
In 1969, he was a candidate for the Edogawa Rampo Prize for his novel Baptism of Blood, written under the pen name Baku Nagai, but lost to Seiichi Morimura. He abandoned his activities as a writer, for a time, with the establishment of Dynamic Production. He would re-debut as a writer in 1981 with Shin Devilman.
When working as a comic writer, he usually takes yet another pen name, that of Hiroshi Koenji. He wrote several comics for both his brother Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa, such as Maboroshi Panty, Haru Ichiban and Shinrei Tantei Occult Dan, among others.
