Hideyuki Kikuchi


Hideyuki Kikuchi is a Japanese author known for his horror novels. His most famous works include the Vampire Hunter D series, Darkside Blues and Wicked City.

Biography

Kikuchi was born in Chōshi, Japan on September 25, 1949. He attended Aoyama Gakuin University and was trained as a writer by famed author Kazuo Koike. His first novel, Demon City Shinjuku, was published in 1982. While his first novels are typical novel prose, as he gained fame, he adopted a more terse writing style.
Kikuchi became close friends with writer and director Yoshiaki Kawajiri during his adaption of Wicked City and the two have since collaborated on Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust and the OVA of Demon City Shinjuku.

Works

Novels

Demon City Shinjuku series

The series takes place in a world where Shinjuku has been turned into a city of demons and monsters, and follows a young man named Kyoya Izayoi, user of the mystical art of Nempo, who must discover how the disaster relates to his own family.
  1. Demon City Shinjuku
  2. Demon Palace Babylon
  3. Trickster Johnny
  4. The Fang Family's Hunter
  5. Underground City Shinjuku
  6. The Legend of the Mad Soldier
  7. ''Demon Doctor Mephisto''

Demon City Nowaru series

This story follows Fuyuharu Aki, Setsura Aki's cousin.
  1. Flattery Goku King
  2. Demon Incense Transcript
  3. ''Evil Moon Mask''

Treasure Hunter series

A series of young adult fiction novels, the story follows a seemingly ordinary high schooler named Dai Yagashira, who journeys around the world collecting rare and supernatural treasures. A member of ITHA and heir to a family of treasure hunters, Yagashira fights soldiers, private militia, and fellow treasure hunters using both high-tech weapons and powerful artifacts. While the original illustrations were provided by Yoshitaka Amano, the illustrations in the bound volumes are by Koichiro Yonemura.
  1. Alien‐Hidden Treasure Town
  2. Alien‐Monster Zone 1
  3. Alien‐Monster Zone 2
  4. Alien‐Apocalypse Record
  5. Alien‐Monster Cat Tale
  6. Alien‐Otherworldly Journey by Sea
  7. Alien‐Mystic Mountain Chronicle
  8. Alien‐Treacherous Sea Tale
  9. Alien‐Luoyang Strange Tales
  10. Alien‐God's Country
  11. Alien‐God's Country
  12. Alien‐God's Country
  13. Alien‐God's Country
  14. Alien‐God's Country
  15. Alien‐God's Country
  16. Alien‐Noble God's Castle
  17. Alien‐Black Death Empire
  18. ''Alien‐Black Death Empire ''

Others

Invader Summer and A Wind Named Amnesia were republished together in one volume in August 2005, with illustrations by Eiji Kaneda.

Manga

Novelizations

Short stories

  • D - Armageddon
  • Portrait of Ixobel
  • D - Village in the Fog
  • D - Castle Dweller
  • D - Night on the Highway
  • A Message from Cecil
  • D - Throng of Heretics