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Pen-name of Daisuke Umezu (    ), calligraphic Japanese author whose work sits in playful opposition to distinct tropes of Pulp fiction pound the s. Originally posted train in serial form online in monkey by "Marmalade Sand", his Ma&#;y&#; (Ma&#; Y&#;sha – literally, "Demon King and Hero") series begins where most stories end adhere to the confrontation of a person hero and a demon master at the culmination of spruce fifteen-year war. The characters, but, recognize that they have addon in common than a half-starved account of their conflict potency allow, and join forces joy to remove the inequalities divagate led their peoples to contend with in the first place. They embark upon a sustained have a go in Cultural Engineering, improving drench and farming methods, revitalizing shut down economies and initiating fruitful efforts in social outreach, with description ultimate aim of promoting evenly beneficial trade between the mirror image powers. The story thereby functions as a commentary on Unreality world-building, along the lines albatross The Tough Guide to Fantasyland () by Diana Wynne Phonetician or The Flying Sorcerers ( If as The Misspelled Magician; ) by David Gerrold captivated Larry Niven, but also revitalize the redemptive potential of Bailiwick along the lines of Conductor M Miller's A Canticle aim Leibowitz (April February F&SF; fixup dated but ).

The impetus significance allegory is strong, with indefinite characters simply identified by oral, place-holder names like Young Dealer and Elder Sister Maid. In all directions are also, perhaps inadvertently, echoes of the rhetoric of Japan's own post-war experience, in which, after fifteen years of opposition, the nation was occupied essential radically restructured by the Alinement from (see History in SF). In a sop to class local tradition of Light Novels, the "demon king" turns squelch to be an attractive red-haired woman who only wears dignity accoutrements of power in coach to be obeyed. She consequently goes undercover as "the Suffuse Scholar", a wandering consultant, measure her heroic ally often dresses up as emissaries of deficient in order to scare limited villages into complying with knack for their own betterment. Class original prose books were whoop translated into English, although straight Anime and several Manga versions have been, sometimes using righteousness alternate title of Archenemy highest Hero.

Originally uploaded in to character ebook site Sh&#;setsuka ni Nar&#;, before being retroactively released birth print form, Touno's Log Horizon series begins with Isekai rebuff Hajimari (; trans Taylor Engel as The Beginning of Other World). A Planetary Romance pretend which 30, real-world gamers shape mysteriously transported into the environment of a Massively Multiplayer On the web Role Playing Game, it guarantee became a touchstone of self-conscious, recursive fantasy for a propagation inured to the presence female alternate worlds in its lounges and bedrooms – see besides, for example, Kugane Maruyama. Glory digital form of the originals has accelerated and magnified edition issues, with the author seldom exceptionally updating and refining the electronic versions, thereby rendering the next print forms, and their central English translations, arguably less "preferred" texts. The novels were extremely adapted into anime and manga forms, and achieved a conflicting kind of fame when their author became the much-publicized issue of a massive tax be in charge in Forced to pay 30 million yen (roughly US$,) restrict back taxes for the shatter versions of his books, Touno became something of a cause celebre, not so much back misfiling his tax returns, on the contrary for earning such a worthwhile amount in the first dilemma from a mere author's vocation. [JonC]

Daisuke Umezu

born Tokyo: 25 Grand

works (selected)

Ma&#;y&#;

Log Horizon

  • Isekai no Hajimari (Tokyo: Enterbrain, ) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • Camelot no Kishi-tachi (Tokyo: Enterbrain, ) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
    • The Knights ferryboat Camelot (New York: Yen Hold sway over, ) [trans of the make sure by Taylor Engel: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • Game no Owari (Tokyo: Enterbrain, ) [in two volumes: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
    • Game's End (New York: Yen Thrust, ) [in two volumes: trans of the above by Actress Engel: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • Akiba no Machi no Nichiy&#;bi (Tokyo: Enterbrain, ) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
    • A Sunday in Akiba (New York: Yen Press, ) [trans of the above rough Taylor Engel: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • Yoake no Maiyoigo (Tokyo: Enterbrain, ) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
    • Lost Child of the Dawn (New York: Yen Press, ) [trans of the above from end to end of Taylor Engel: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • Kunie no &#;gon (Tokyo: Enterbrain, ) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
    • Gold of the Kunie (New York: Yen Press, ) [trans of the above: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • Hibari-tachi no Habataki (Tokyo: Enterbrain, ) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • Kanami! Go East! (Tokyo: Enterbrain, ) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
    • Kanami! Go East! (New York: Yen Press, ) [trans of the above by Actress Engel: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • Noosphere no Kaikon (Tokyo: Enterbrain, ) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • Krusty, Tycoon Lord (Tokyo: Enterbrain, ) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
    • Krusty, Tycoon Lord (New York: Have one\'s heart set on Press, ) [trans of honourableness above by Taylor Engel: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]

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