- After a career in IT (information technology), he published his first novel, Modern Magic Made Simple (Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mabou) in 2003 with Super Dash Bunko, a popular Young Adult light novel imprint. There are seven volumes in the series, it was adapted as Manga in 2008, and a TV anime series in 2009. He also published All You Need Is Kill with SDB in 2004 and earned his first Seiun Award nomination for Best of the Year honors in Japanese SF. In 2009, it was the launch title for Haikasoru, a unique imprint dedicated to publishing the most compelling contemporary Japanese SF and fantasy for English-speaking audiences; it's one of his most popular novels, and he remains one of Japan's most energetic writers of light novels and adult SF.
- Born in Tokyo, Japan 1970.
- His other novels include Characters and Slum Online, published in English in 2010.
- In 2010, he started an experimental digital magazine. AiR.
- His 2004 short story Saitama Chainsaw Massacre won the 16th SF Magazine Reader's Award.
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