Natsume Akatsuki


Natsume Akatsuki is a Japanese light novel author and manga writer. He is best known as the creator of the KonoSuba series.
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Career

In 2012, Akatsuki entered his debut work Dragontarashi for the 8th MF Bunko J Light Novel Rookie Award under the pen name Hideaki Natsuki. However, it only made it to the second round. After that, he began posting his writing to the user-generated novel website Shōsetsuka ni Narō under the same name.
On August 19, 2012, under the name Sentōin Sangō, he began serializing Combatants Will Be Dispatched!, which concluded on September 10 of the same year with 68 chapters. In the same month, under the name Yōki na America Jin, he published Saikyō no Katanakaji. After this, he closed his account.
After a short time, Akatsuki created a new account on Shōsetsuka ni Narō under the username Jitakukeibihei and begun uploading once again. He published Ninja ga Isekai Iri before taking it down, only making the work available again on February 1, 2013.
On December 20, 2012, he began serializing KonoSuba, which finished on October 21, 2013, with 124 chapters. It was announced in the same year that KonoSuba would be published by Kadokawa Shoten under their Sneaker imprint. On December 10, 2013, KonoSuba was taken off the Shōsetsuka ni Narō website.
March 27, 2013, saw the release of the KonoSuba side-story Kamen Akuma ga Miru Yume wa. The same work would be published in book form on April 1, 2016, as Kono Kamen no Akuma ni Sōdan o!.
Akatsuki officially debuted on October 1, 2013, with the first volume of KonoSuba being published in book form.
On October 1, 2014, he released his first novel, Dragontarashi, for free on his blog.
In 2016, he would write and begin publishing the manga Kemono Michi. It would receive an anime adaptation in 2019.
KonoSuba received an anime adaptation in 2016. It would later on have a sequel anime in 2017 followed by a movie in 2019.
Akatsuki's Combatants Will Be Dispatched! started publishing on November 1, 2017. It received an anime adaptation in 2021.

Works

Novels

''KonoSuba''

''Combatants Will Be Dispatched!''

Manga

Other credits