He began reading manga from rental bookstores as a child, later he read Weekly Shōnen Sunday and Weekly Shōnen Magazine and drew manga inspired by Satoru Ozawa [ja]'s Submarine 707.
[1] In his youth and while attending Rissho University in Tokyo,[2] he drew doujinshi together with friends.
In parallel, he worked as an assistant first for manga artist Nasubi Fujitaka[1] and then Takeshi Ebihara [ja].
He started his career as a professional artist in 1984 in the lolicon magazine Lemon People with the short story "Seireijima".
[2][3][4][5][6] His pseudonym Ochazukenori is the name of a rice dish with green tea and dried algae.
The center of his stories is often mental illness,[8] with depictions of bloody corpses, fratricide and torture.