His works have been adapted into many different media, with Drifting Net Café and Inside Mari into television dramas,[4][5] The Flowers of Evil into an anime,[6] and Sweet Poolside into a live action film.
[8] In his childhood Oshimi would read modernist poems from authors like Sakutarō Hagiwara and Mitsuharu Kaneko.
[9] Oshimi also thought that surrealist artists like André Breton, Max Ernst, and Paul Delvaux were cool.
[12] In his youth, Oshimi heavily identified with the protagonist of Tetsu Adachi's Song of Cherry Blossoms and it would later influence his manga The Flowers of Evil.
[15] Oshimi also wants to explore the female perspective in his gender-bender manga Inside Mari, because to him, girls are "half of the world".