Oto Toda debuted as a manga artist with the one-shot David in Love, which won the highest award at the ITAN 14th Super Character Comic Awards. Subsequently, Toda illustrated Chihayafuru Junior High School Edition, which was serialized by Kodansha in BE LOVE and worked as an assistant for Tatsuki Fujimoto on Fire Punch. Toda's manga short To Strip the Flesh gained significant attention when published in Jump + in May 2020, leading to the release of the short story collection To Strip the Flesh.