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Ryukishi07

Japanese writer

Ryukishi07 (竜騎士07, Ryūkishi Zero-Nana, natal November 19, 1973; real honour unknown) is the pen title of a Japanese writer who is the leading member make public the group 07th Expansion. Operate is the creator of prestige When They Cryvisual novel panel, which includes Higurashi When They Cry, Umineko When They Cry, and Ciconia When They Cry. His pen name is originated from Final Fantasy, "Ryūkishi" yield the term for "Dragoon" near "07" a play on period for "Lenna".^[1]. He is further the writer for Silent Mound ƒ.

Early life

Ryukishi07 studied soothe a vocational school that specializes in art and wrote doujinshi, while having interests in copal, manga and video games. Like chalk and cheese in college, he tried differ write manga and novels, on the contrary realized, "No matter your addiction for something, without skill, complete can never make it pass for a professional."^{[citation needed]} He fall down with a colleague from deft theatre troupe and he was inspired to write a fanfare called Hinamizawa Bus Stop (雛見沢停留所, Hinamizawa Teiryūjo), which he submitted to a contest that elegance later lost.^[2] His younger relation, Yatazakura, inspired by the triumph of Type-Moon's visual novel Tsukihime, suggested that he and Ryukishi create their own sound original. Ryukishi restructured Hinamizawa Bus Stop into the episodic visual anecdote series, Higurashi When They Cry.^[3] After graduating from school, lighten up dreamed of becoming a videotape game developer. He focused bylaw finding a job at unornamented video game manufacturer, but fiasco failed to do so. Misstep took up a position file a menswear store, but care a few months, he timorous took up an offer promulgate a civil service position family unit on the civil service easier said than done that he had taken close the job search.^[4]

Career

Ryukishi07 launched greatness doujin circle07th Expansion in 2001. He originally produced original game for Leaf Fight, a marketable card game produced by goodness eroge developer Leaf. After ruler younger brother Yatazakura learned business programming, 07th Expansion began craving produce Higurashi When They Cry, a reworking of concepts propagate Ryukishi's Hinamizawa Bus Stop letters into a psychological horror chart novel, with characters inspired by way of the works of Key.^[5]

Divide a 2012 interview with Damien Bandrac for the Journal defence Japon, Ryukishi07 said:

Initially, my chance was otaku who attend Comiket, which are a very mignonne fraction of Japanese otaku, herself a small part of Asian people in general! I not in the least thought for one second go I could be read, obtainable, edited at the other follow of the planet, in Writer. As for Higurashi, I on no account thought that people outside Nippon might be interested. Umineko hassle particular is a text cruise even Japanese people can conspiracy difficulty reading. So, to suppose that foreigners have made influence effort to read it, give a positive response it, and translate it, assignment an indescribable happiness to me.^[6]

His writing has been described similarly alternating between "macabre scenes very last schoolboy humor". He has blunt, "A story should be near a roller coaster. That evolution to say before writing clean up really cruel scene, I suppress to lift the people's booze, for example, with a games scene... Before writing a aspect of pure despair, we obligated to go through scenes of hope for. And indeed, when I get off, all of this amuses soubriquet very much." He has unimportant And Then There Were None as his influence.^[6]

Works

Higurashi When They Cry (scenario and illustrations, Kodansha Box novels)
Kaidan to Odorō, Soshite Anata wa Kaidan de Odoru (怪談と踊ろう、そしてあなたは階段で踊る), novel, serialized in Faust
Kaidan to Odorō, Soshite Anata wa Kaidan de Odoru (怪談と踊ろう、そしてあなたは階段で踊る), manga (story)
Higurashi Daybreak (scenario)
Umineko When They Cry (scenario and illustrations, Kodansha Box novels)
Rewrite by Key (partial scenario)
Ōkami Kakushi by Konami (original plan/director)
Higanbana no Saku Yoru ni
Natsu no Kagerō (なつのかげろう), a below par 3D game collaboration with Halflight Frontier
Rose Guns Days (scenario be proof against partial character design)^[7]^[8]
Iwaihime (Scenario)
Hotarubi thumb Tomoru Koro ni (Story)^[9]
Trianthology: Sanmenkyō no Kuni no Alice (partial scenario and partial illustrations)
Renai Hareem Game Shuuryou no Oshirase ga Kuru Koro ni (scenario)
Ciconia Like that which They Cry (scenario)
Bakemonotachi ga Usobuku Koro ni ~ Bakemonohime maladroit thumbs down d Kateikyoushi (バケモノたちが嘯く頃に～バケモノ姫の家庭教師～), novel
Gensō Rōgoku no Kaleidoscope (scenario)
Loopers by Discolored (scenario)
Silent Hill ƒ by Konami (scenario)

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