Kazuma Kamachi

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Kazuma Kamachi
Pen name Kazuma Kamachi (鎌池和馬 Kamachi Kazuma)
Occupation Author
Nationality Japanese
Notable works A Certain Magical Index
A Certain Scientific Railgun
Heavy Object
Website
kamachi10th.dengeki.com

Kazuma Kamachi (鎌池和馬 Kamachi Kazuma?) is a pseudonymous Japanese author with over 50 light novel volumes published. He is best known for the creation of the A Certain Magical Index series which as of 2013 has sold over 14.25 million copies in Japan and has been licensed in North America by Yen Press with the first novel being released in Q4 2014.[1][2]

Personal life

Not much is known about Kazuma Kamachi's personal life, which is also true for other light novel authors in Japan. As an author, he is known to be consistent in writing his books, releasing at least 3 books per year. Starting in December 2014, Kazuma has been releasing novels monthly on 4 different titles while working on 3 different manga titles.

Kazuma Miki, editor of the A Certain Magical Index series, released a book and a chapter named Kamachi Kazuma the Legend confirms/debunks rumors about him and talks about him:[3]

  • Continues writing even with the Norovirus.
  • Once held a meeting without his manuscript in hand and accurately remembered everything down to the line number because “it’s all in my head”.
  • Completed A Certain Magical Index Volume 2 in only 17 days.
  • Had almost finished writing A Certain Magical Index Volume 6 before Volume 5 was released and had the plots complete up to Volume 9
  • Is abnormally fast coming up with his plots for A Certain Scientific Railgun as well.
  • Has worked on writing a novel, coming up with a manga plot, writing an short story to be bundled with an anime, and coming up with an original game scenario all at the same time.
  • Completed Heavy Object Volume 1’s manuscript in only a few weeks after getting the go-ahead on writing it.
  • Sent in the manuscript for Heavy Object Volume 2 a few days after getting the go-ahead.
  • Will write the manuscript before a deadline has even been set or will bring the next volume’s manuscript to a meeting discussing the previous volume.
  • When asked for an original short story for a magazine project, brought the completed manuscript and a full novel manuscript that did not have a deadline set yet.
  • When asked for a single short story for a magazine project, brought ten stories in and asked them to choose one.
  • Takes a break from writing by writing something else.
  • Always attends the anime script meetings and recording sessions except when sick. Came up with the ideas for every single original episode.
  • Always writes an short story novel for the anime. Already has two Dengeki Bunko novels’ worth.
  • Has plenty of manuscripts that he ended up rejecting or that had their release delayed. Altogether, it adds up to five Dengeki Bunko novel’s worth.
  • At the most, has supervised the serializations of seven manga adaptations at once.
  • Wrote the entire main scenario for Million Arthur and supervised the details of all the card characters. Did the same for the sequel.
  • Continues to bring in new manuscripts with no set deadline. Keeps doing it even when asked not to.
  • Has been releasing novels monthly since the end of 2014, but still has a years’ worth of manuscripts stocked up (as of October 2015).
  • When asked how he can write so much, said, “If I don’t keep writing, I’ll crash. Like an airplane.”

Works

Novels

  • A Certain Magical Index (2004-2010, 25 volumes)
  • A Certain Magical Index: New Testament (2011–present, 14 volumes)
  • Heavy Object (2009–present, 10 volumes)
  • Interibirejji no Zashiki Warashi (インテリビレッジの座敷童 lit. "The Zashiki Warashi of Intellectual Village"?) (2012–present, 7 volumes)[4][5][6]
  • Kantan na Enquete desu (簡単なアンケートです lit. "A Simple Survey"?) (2012, 1 volume)[7]
  • Waltraute-san no Konkatsu Jijou (ヴァルトラウテさんの婚活事情 lit. "The Circumstances Leading to Waltraute's Marriage"?) (2012, 1 volume)[8]
  • Kantan na Monitor desu (簡単なモニターです lit. "A Simple Monitoring"?) (2013, 1 volume)[9]
  • Mitou Shoukan: //Blood Sign (未踏召喚://ブラッドサイン (ライトノベル) lit. "The Unexplored Summon://Blood-Sign"?) (2014–present, 1 volume)[10]

Manga

Film

Video Games

Awards

  • Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!
    • 2009 - 4th Place in Best Novel Series, A Certain Magical Index
    • 2010 - 9th Place in Best Novel Series, A Certain Magical Index
    • 2011 - 1st Place in Best Novel Series, A Certain Magical Index
    • 2012 - 2nd Place in Best Novel Series, A Certain Magical Index
    • 2013 - 2nd Place in Best Novel Series, A Certain Magical Index
    • 2014 - 3rd Place in Best Novel Series, A Certain Magical Index

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External links

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