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Kinoko Nasu | |
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奈須 きのこ | |
Born | 28 November 1973 |
Nationality | Japanese |
Occupation(s) | Co-founder of Type-Moon, Writer, video game designer |
Years active | 1998–present |
Notable work |
Tsukihime Fate/stay night The Garden of Sinners Witch on the Holy Night |
Website | Official Blog |
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
The Garden of Sinners and
visual novels
Tsukihime and
Fate/stay night, and a co-founder of
Type-Moon. He graduated from
Hosei University with a major in
human science.
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. His influences include Hideyuki Kikuchi, Yukito Ayatsuji, Soji Shimada, Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Kenji Takemoto, [2] Ken Ishikawa [3] and Yasuhiro Nightow. [4]
After 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 has been adapted to extremely popular manga and anime series.
Among his 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.