Kinoko Nasu

Kinoko Nasu
Native name 奈須 きのこ
Born (1973-11-28) 28 November 1973
Residence Japan
Nationality Japanese
Occupation Co-founder of Type-Moon, Writer, video game designer
Years active 2000–present
Notable work Tsukihime
Fate/stay night
Kara no Kyōkai
Website www.remus.dti.ne.jp/~takeucto/

Kinoko Nasu (奈須 きのこ, Nasu Kinoko, male,[1] born 28 November 1973) is a Japanese author, best known for writing the light novel Kara no Kyōkai and visual novels Tsukihime and Fate/stay night. Renowned for a unique style of storytelling and prose, Nasu is amongst the most prominent visual novelists in Japan. He graduated from Hosei University with a major in human science.

Biography

Together with his junior high school classmate and friend Takashi Takeuchi, Nasu formed Type-Moon in 2000, originally as a dōjin group to create the visual novel Tsukihime, which soon gained immense popularity. Nasu's influences include Hideyuki Kikuchi, Yukito Ayatsuji, Soji Shimada, Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Kenji Takemoto,[2] Ken Ishikawa,[3] and Yasuhiro Nightow.[4]

Following the success of Tsukihime, Type-Moon became a commercial organization. A sequel to Tsukihime, Kagetsu Tohya, was released in August 2001. On 28 January 2004 Type-Moon released Fate/stay night, written by Nasu; it, too, gained great success, becoming one of the most popular visual novels on the day of its release. A sequel to Fate/stay night, Fate/hollow ataraxia, was released on 28 October 2005. Nasu's visual novel work (Fate/stay night) has been adapted to extremely popular manga and anime series.

Works

Among Kinoko Nasu's earlier works are the novels Kara no Kyōkai, originally released in 1998 and re-printed in 2004, Angel Notes, Mahōtsukai no Yoru and Kōri no Hana.

Novels

  • Kara no Kyōkai also called Garden of Sinners - originally released in 1998 and re-printed in 2004. It was also re-released in a three-volume format with new illustrations in 2007
  • Decoration Disorder Disconnection
  • Tsuki no Sango (Moon’s Coral)
  • Mahōtsukai no Yoru
  • Notes. (Angel Voice)
  • Kōri no Hana (氷の花, Ice Flowers)
  • Garden Of Avalon

Visual novels

  • Tsukihime – Released in December 2000.
  • Kagetsu Tohya – Fan-disc of Tsukihime, released in August 2001.
  • Fate/stay night – Released on January 28, 2004.
  • Fate/hollow ataraxia – Fan-disc of Fate/stay night, released on October 28, 2005.
  • Mahōtsukai no Yoru – Adaptation of the novel, released on April 12, 2012.
  • Tsukihime remake – Adaptation of the novel, release date unknown.

Video games

Anime

  • Fate/Zero: Onegai! Einzbern Soudanshitsu (2012)
  • Fate/Grand Order: Moonlight/Lostroom (2017)
  • Fate/Extra Last Encore (2018)

References

  1. ↑ Nasu, Kinoko (2004-07-23). "And so I became a girl。". Retrieved 2013-09-22.
  2. ↑ まんだらけ同人館／コラム 第七回　奈須
  3. ↑ TYPE-MOON 武内崇×奈須きのこ×OKSG スタッフ座談会第二夜
  4. ↑ 応援団メッセージ#24　奈須きのこ 『TRIGUN』オフィシャルブログ Archived 2014-02-21 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ "Gpara.com". 12 October 2008. Retrieved 24 December 2008.
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