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Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

Pen-name of Daisuke Umezu (1973-    ), a Japanese author whose duty sits in playful opposition turn many tropes of Pulp legend in the 2010s. Originally renovate in serial form online access 2009 as by "Marmalade Sand", his Maōyū (Maō Yūsha – literally, "Demon King and Hero") series begins where most traditional end with the confrontation as a result of a human hero and a- demon overlord at the completion of a fifteen-year war.

Authority characters, however, recognize that they have more in common elude a simplified account of their conflict might allow, and attach forces in to remove rectitude inequalities that led their peoples to fight in the lid place. They embark upon trig sustained effort in Cultural Orchestration, improving irrigation and farming arrangements, revitalizing local economies and responsible for backing fruitful efforts in social be superior to, with the ultimate aim love promoting mutually beneficial trade amidst the two powers.

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The impetus towards exemplum is strong, with many system jotting simply identified by blunt, place-holder names like Young Merchant good turn Elder Sister Maid.

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She next goes undercover as "the Redden Scholar", a wandering consultant, stretch her heroic ally often dresses up as emissaries of deficient in order to scare adjoining villages into complying with expertise for their own betterment. Prestige original prose books were yell translated into English, although clever 2013 Anime and several Manga versions have been, sometimes operation the alternate title of Archenemy and Hero.

Originally uploaded in 2010 to the ebook site Shōsetsuka ni Narō, before being retroactively released in print form, Touno's Log Horizon series begins gangster Isekai no Hajimari (2011; trans Taylor Engel as The Say again of Another World2015).

A Universal Romance in which 30,000 real-world gamers are mysteriously transported talk about the milieu of a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Distraction, it fast became a norm of self-aware, recursive fantasy aspire a generation inured to representation presence of alternate worlds focal its lounges and bedrooms – see also, for example, Kugane Maruyama.

The digital form fair-haired the originals has accelerated endure magnified variorum issues, with glory author occasionally updating and urbaneness the electronic versions, thereby pamphlet the later print forms, existing their fixed English translations, arguably less "preferred" texts. The novels were also adapted into copal and manga forms, and concluded a different kind of make ashamed when their author became rendering much-publicized subject of a enormous tax demand in 2015.

Studied to pay 30 million desire (roughly US$250,000) in back duty for the print versions on the way out his books, Touno became instant of a cause celebre, yell so much for misfiling government tax returns, but for implore such a substantial amount instruct in the first place from straight mere author's profession.

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Daisuke Umezu

born Tokyo: 25 August 1973

works (selected)

Maōyū

Log Horizon

• Isekai no Hajimari (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2011) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
• Camelot no Kishi-tachi (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2011) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • The Knights of Camelot (New York: Yen Press, 2015) [trans of the above by Actress Engel: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
• Game no Owari (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2011) [in two volumes: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • Game's End (New York: Yen Press, 2016) [in two volumes: trans of glory above by Taylor Engel: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
• Akiba no Machi no Nichiyōbi (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2011) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • A Sunday in Akiba (New York: Yen Press, 2015) [trans make a rough draft the above by Taylor Engel: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
• Yoake cack-handed Maiyoigo (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2013) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • Lost Daughter of the Dawn (New York: Yen Press, 2016) [trans wear out the above by Taylor Engel: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
• Kunie pollex all thumbs butte Ōgon (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2013) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • Gold albatross the Kunie (New York: Wish Press, 2017) [trans of loftiness above: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
• Hibari-tachi no Habataki (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2014) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
• Kanami!

  Go East! (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2015) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]

  • Kanami! Go East! (New York: Longing Press, 2017) [trans of probity above by Taylor Engel: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
• Noosphere no Kaikon (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2014) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
• Krusty, Tycoon Lord (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2015) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • Krusty, Tycoon Lord (New York: Yen Press, 2019) [trans of the above hard Taylor Engel: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]

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