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Nasu Kinoko

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Nasu Kinoko (Japanese: 奈須 きのこ Nasu Kinoko?, born 28 November 1973) is a Japanese author, best known for writing the 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.

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[edit] Biography

Together with high school classmate and friend, Takeuchi Takashi, Nasu formed TYPE-MOON in 2000, originally as a dōjin group to create the visual novel Tsukihime, which soon gained immense popularity, much of which is attributed to Nasu's unique style of storytelling. A sequel to Tsukihime, Kagetsu Tohya, was released on August 2001.

Following the success of Tsukihime, TYPE-MOON became a commercial organization. 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 October 28, 2005. Both of Nasu's visual novel works (Tsukihime and Fate/stay night) have been adapted to popular anime and manga series.

[edit] Nasu's works

Among Nasu's earlier works are the novels Kara no Kyoukai, originally released in 1998 and re-printed in 2004, Angel Notes, Mahou Tsukai no Yoru and Koori no Hana.

Nasu has authored the following:

[edit] Novels

Note: "Kara no Kyoukai" featured illustrations by Takashi Takeuchi, while the "DDD" series featured art by Koyama Hirokazu

[edit] Visual novels

[edit] Trivia

  • The name TYPE-MOON originates from one of Nasu's earliest works, Angel Notes.
  • Nasu means eggplant in Japanese and Kinoko means mushroom; thus, he is depicted as a mushroom when he appears in-game.

[edit] References

This article is based on or incorporates content from this revision of the article Kinoko_Nasu from the English Wikipedia

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