The Lives of Eccentrics

The Lives of Eccentrics (変人偏屈列伝; Henjin Henkutsu Retsuden) is a manga, written by Hirohiko Araki and illustrated by him and his 4 assistants, released between 1989 and 2003.

The manga explores the lives of several famous eccentrics and bizarre real-life people.Each chapter features a different story and concludes within the same chapter. The only exception is Ty Cobb's Story with two chapters.

Genres: Drama, Historical, Horror, Mature, Mystery, Psychological, Seinen

Characters

 * Nikola Tesla
 * Ty Cobb
 * Kou Yoshio
 * Typhoid Mary
 * Sarah Winchester
 * Collyer Brothers

Manga Characteristics

 * 1) All the stories are based on real life persons. While the story of each character is respected, Araki takes liberties necessary to impregnate his narrative style and its grand amount of detail.
 * 2) Another characteristic of this manga is the different art for each chapter. The art varies greatly throughout the course of the manga seeing how the gap between the release of the first and the last chapters is notably wide. The series starts in a style Araki used in his early career during Part I: Phantom Blood's run while the later chapters have slight art elements similar to Parts IV - VI. The manga's unique style of art almost separate from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure demonstrates Araki's ability to vary his own art style to a degree that it would otherwise be hardly recognizable as his work. This is therefore a great example of the his artistic skill and more significantly, evolution.