草野紅壱
Dendo Score breakdown ── gate 80 ・ reach +0.00 (R = 0.10) ・ quality +0.20 ・ awards +4.40 ・ career +2.10 ・ volume +1.10 ／ inducted by award Selection Criteria, Article 5
CERTIFICATE No. 0118
Kusano Koichi (草野紅壱) is a manga artist who made a tankobon debut in 2002 with "センチメンタル症候群", published by Hit Shuppansha; the book was voted third in the reader-voted Eromanga Taisho 2002. Short-story collections on adolescent love and sexuality have followed — "思春期絶対領域", "思春期エレジー", "恋愛コンプレックス", "恋愛とセックスと僕と彼女". The artist works in the general-interest field as well: "お兄ちゃんのことなんかぜんぜん好きじゃないんだからねっ!!", serialized in Futabasha's "WEBコミックアクション", was adapted into a television anime. The artist also leads the dojin circle "紅屋". Eleven books in total.
Reference: Japanese Wikipedia, "草野紅壱"
Last commercial tankobon in 2019, but still publishing doujin work in 2026 ── the doujin scene is their main stage now
Debut class of 2002 ── fellow inductees from the same year: 瀬奈陽太郎, ゴージャス宝田
3 2channel Ero-Manga Awards (reader vote) 2002 ── "センチメンタル症候群"
Awards from the reader vote (the Ero-Manga Awards) and the editorial prize (Kono Ero-Manga ga Sugoi!) are summed per work and added to the Dendo Score (this author: 4.40, capped at 8); with 3.0 or more award points, this author is inducted even though their reach falls short of the gate. Paper-era sales records (Toranoana annual charts) are counted toward the reach R. Newcomer prizes and other magazine-sponsored prizes earn no award points and are recorded here as labels only (Selection Criteria, Articles 5 and 8).
Selected Works
TOP 3 BY RATINGS
Book Chronology
2012─2019Publication years follow the bibliographic records of the National Diet Library Search (works not listed there use their DLsite release year). Rating counts and averages are automatically tallied from DLsite public data. Books marked "Not on DLsite" may be available digitally at other stores.