Kazuma Miki


Kazuma Miki is a Japanese light novel editor. He is CEO of Straight Edge Inc, editor-in-chief of LINE novel, and outside director of Egg Firm. He is from the Tokushima prefecture. He graduated from Sophia University as a physics major.

Overview

After graduating from the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Sophia University, Miki joined Media Works in 2000, and was assigned to the editorial department of Dengeki Bunko in 2001.
After serving as editor-in-chief of Dengeki Bunko and Dengeki Bunko Magazine, he left Kadokawa on March 31, 2016, and established Straight Edge Inc on April 1, 2016, but continues to work for Dengeki Bunko as an external editor.
In February 2020, Miki began posting his original fiction on the website Shōsetsuka ni Narō.
He is a close friend of YouTuber Kunhiro and often appears in his videos.

Notable authors under his supervision

Miki believes in selling original works through media franchising in hopes to appeal to markets outside traditional publishing. As such, many of the works he supervised have had manga and anime adaptations.
In the initial draft of Shakugan no Shana, the titular protagonist Shana was in her twenties and resembled Margery Daw, another character in the series, in appearance, however following Miki's suggestions, the character was reworked.
The concept of Oreimo as a slice of life comedy based on otaku culture was planned by Miki based on the style of the author, Tsukasa Fushimi. Kirino Kosaka, the main heroine of the series, was proposed by Miki as like "a gyaru character taken from the works of Tooru Fujisawa." As a native of Tokushima, he often appears at Machi Asobi which is held in Tokushima City, along with Fushimi.

Other credits

Anime

Miki has been credited as a producer in all anime adaptations of series he was editor of, such as the Sword Art Online anime series. In addition to this, he has also been credited in: