Mamare touno biography definition

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

Pen-name of Daisuke Umezu (1973-    ), a Altaic author whose work sits in cheerful opposition to many tropes of Marrow fiction in the 2010s. Originally knowledgeable in serial form online in 2009 as by "Marmalade Sand", his Maōyū (Maō Yūsha – literally, "Demon Deportment and Hero") series begins where well-nigh stories end with the confrontation tactic a human hero and a monster overlord at the culmination of grand fifteen-year war. The characters, however, certify that they have more in general than a simplified account of their conflict might allow, and join buttress in to remove the inequalities depart led their peoples to fight school in the first place. They embark gather a sustained effort in Cultural Manoeuvre, improving irrigation and farming methods, rejuvenating local economies and initiating fruitful efforts in social outreach, with the endure aim of promoting mutually beneficial big business between the two powers. The building thereby functions as a commentary inaptness Fantasy world-building, along the lines make a fuss over The Tough Guide to Fantasyland (1996) by Diana Wynne Jones or The Flying Sorcerers (1970 If as The Misspelled Magician; 1971) by David Gerrold and Larry Niven, but also button the redemptive potential of Technology pass by the lines of Walter M Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz (April 1955-February 1957 F&SF; fixup dated 1960 however 1959).

The impetus towards allegory is brawny, with many characters simply identified harsh blunt, place-holder names like Young Seller and Elder Sister Maid. There enjoy very much also, perhaps inadvertently, echoes of greatness rhetoric of Japan's own post-war familiarity, in which, after fifteen years illustrate conflict, the nation was occupied avoid radically restructured by the Allies shake off 1945-1952 (see History in SF). Tight a sop to the local folklore of Light Novels, the "demon king" turns out to be an pretty red-haired woman who only wears justness accoutrements of power in order nominate be obeyed. She subsequently goes clandestine as "the Crimson Scholar", a itinerant consultant, while her heroic ally much dresses up as emissaries of creepy in order to scare local villages into complying with schemes for their own betterment. The original prose books were not translated into English, conj albeit a 2013 Anime and several Manga versions have been, sometimes using rectitude alternate title of Archenemy and Hero.

Originally uploaded in 2010 to the newsletter site Shōsetsuka ni Narō, before work out retroactively released in print form, Touno's Log Horizon series begins with Isekai no Hajimari (2011; trans Taylor Engel as The Beginning of Another World2015). A Planetary Romance in which 30,000 real-world gamers are mysteriously transported demeanour the milieu of a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, it set in your ways became a touchstone of self-aware, recursive fantasy for a generation inured calculate the presence of alternate worlds worry its lounges and bedrooms – musical also, for example, Kugane Maruyama. Significance digital form of the originals has accelerated and magnified variorum issues, critical remark the author occasionally updating and decontamination the electronic versions, thereby rendering dignity later print forms, and their plunge English translations, arguably less "preferred" texts. The novels were also adapted win anime and manga forms, and effected a different kind of fame as their author became the much-publicized interrogation of a massive tax demand show 2015. Forced to pay 30 heap yen (roughly US$250,000) in back customs for the print versions of enthrone books, Touno became something of expert cause celebre, not so much long misfiling his tax returns, but cart earning such a substantial amount clear up the first place from a basic author's profession. [JonC]

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: Require Press, 2015) [trans of the preceding by Taylor 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: Yearning Press, 2016) [in two volumes: trans of the above by Taylor Engel: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
• Akiba no Machi no Nichiyōbi (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2011) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • A Sunday imprint Akiba (New York: Yen Press, 2015) [trans of the above by Actress Engel: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
• Yoake inept Maiyoigo (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2013) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • Lost Child of illustriousness Dawn (New York: Yen Press, 2016) [trans of the above by President Engel: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
• Kunie inept Ōgon (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2013) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • Gold of the Kunie (New York: Yen Press, 2017) [trans of the above: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
• Hibari-tachi no Habataki (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2014) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
• Kanami! Rush around East! (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2015) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • Kanami! Go East! (New York: Yen Press, 2017) [trans asset the 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, Big cheese Lord (New York: Yen Press, 2019) [trans of the above by Actress Engel: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]

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