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Jirō Akagawa
Jirō Akagawa (赤川 次郎, Akagawa Jirō; born February 29, 1948) is a Japanese novelist born in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.
Best known for his humorous mysteries, Akagawa's first short story, "Ghost Train", was published in 1976 and went on to win the annually granted All Yomimono New Mystery Writers' Prize by Bungeishunjū, a Japanese literary publishing company. Other works of his, The Incident in the Bedroom Suburb (ホームタウンの事件簿 私語を禁ず, Homu Taun no Jikenbo: Shigo o Kinzu) and Voice from Heaven (天からの声, Ten kara no Koe), were later made into anime, while Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (セーラー服と機関銃, Serafuku to Kikanju) was made into a popular live action movie. His most recognized works to date pertain to his Mike-neko (or Calico cat) Holmes series. He is extremely prolific; as of 2013, he had written more than 560 novels in the course of his thirty-year career, over 300 million individual published volumes.
Majo-tachi no Nemuri was an adaptation of two of Akagawa's works: Majotachi no Tasogare and Majotachi no Nagai Nemuri. Akagawa provided the original novel and did not supervised the script for the game. It was released for the Super Famicom in Japan on November 24, 1995. They were later re-leased with extra content as Majotachi no Nemuri -Kanzenban- in 1996 for home computers and for the PlayStation as Majo-tachi no Nemuri -Fukkatsusai- in 1999.
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Jirō Akagawa
Jirō Akagawa (赤川 次郎, Akagawa Jirō; born February 29, 1948) is a Japanese novelist born in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.
Best known for his humorous mysteries, Akagawa's first short story, "Ghost Train", was published in 1976 and went on to win the annually granted All Yomimono New Mystery Writers' Prize by Bungeishunjū, a Japanese literary publishing company. Other works of his, The Incident in the Bedroom Suburb (ホームタウンの事件簿 私語を禁ず, Homu Taun no Jikenbo: Shigo o Kinzu) and Voice from Heaven (天からの声, Ten kara no Koe), were later made into anime, while Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (セーラー服と機関銃, Serafuku to Kikanju) was made into a popular live action movie. His most recognized works to date pertain to his Mike-neko (or Calico cat) Holmes series. He is extremely prolific; as of 2013, he had written more than 560 novels in the course of his thirty-year career, over 300 million individual published volumes.
Majo-tachi no Nemuri was an adaptation of two of Akagawa's works: Majotachi no Tasogare and Majotachi no Nagai Nemuri. Akagawa provided the original novel and did not supervised the script for the game. It was released for the Super Famicom in Japan on November 24, 1995. They were later re-leased with extra content as Majotachi no Nemuri -Kanzenban- in 1996 for home computers and for the PlayStation as Majo-tachi no Nemuri -Fukkatsusai- in 1999.