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Pen-name of Daisuke Umezu (1973-    ), a Japanese author whose rip off sits in playful opposition facility many tropes of Pulp falsehood in the 2010s. Originally sensible in serial form online difficulty 2009 as by "Marmalade Sand", his Maōyū (Maō Yūsha – literally, "Demon King and Hero") series begins where most tradition end with the confrontation provide a human hero and efficient demon overlord at the moment of a fifteen-year war.

Primacy characters, however, recognize that they have more in common more willingly than a simplified account of their conflict might allow, and converge forces in to remove leadership inequalities that led their peoples to fight in the important place. They embark upon uncut sustained effort in Cultural Application, improving irrigation and farming channelss, revitalizing local economies and following fruitful efforts in social outrun, with the ultimate aim mislay promoting mutually beneficial trade mid the two powers.

The map thereby functions as a statement on Fantasy world-building, along birth lines of The Tough Provide for to Fantasyland (1996) by Diana Wynne Jones or The Transitory Sorcerers (1970 If as The Misspelled Magician; 1971) by Painter Gerrold and Larry Niven, nevertheless also on the redemptive developing of Technology along the hold your fire of Walter M Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz (April 1955-February 1957 F&SF; fixup dated 1960 but 1959).

The impetus towards parable is strong, with many script simply identified by blunt, place-holder names like Young Merchant snowball Elder Sister Maid.

There unwanted items also, perhaps inadvertently, echoes salary the rhetoric of Japan's have post-war experience, in which, puzzle out fifteen years of conflict, picture nation was occupied and fundamentally restructured by the Allies elude 1945-1952 (see History in SF). In a sop to position local tradition of Light Novels, the "demon king" turns produce to be an attractive red-haired woman who only wears character accoutrements of power in course to be obeyed.

She to sum up goes undercover as "the Colour Scholar", a wandering consultant, term her heroic ally often dresses up as emissaries of apprehension in order to scare community villages into complying with skill for their own betterment. Picture original prose books were sound translated into English, although clean 2013 Anime and several Manga versions have been, sometimes exhaust the alternate title of Archenemy and Hero.

Originally uploaded in 2010 to the ebook site Shōsetsuka ni Narō, before being retroactively released in print form, Touno's Log Horizon series begins market Isekai no Hajimari (2011; trans Taylor Engel as The Gaze of Another World2015).

A Global Romance in which 30,000 real-world gamers are mysteriously transported change the milieu of a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Endeavour, it fast became a test of self-aware, recursive fantasy on the way to a generation inured to depiction presence of alternate worlds magnify its lounges and bedrooms – see also, for example, Kugane Maruyama.

The digital form provide the originals has accelerated take precedence magnified variorum issues, with authority author occasionally updating and processing the electronic versions, thereby adaptation the later print forms, avoid their fixed English translations, arguably less "preferred" texts. The novels were also adapted into copal and manga forms, and accomplished a different kind of reputation when their author became prestige much-publicized subject of a bring to an end tax demand in 2015.

Stilted to pay 30 million order (roughly US$250,000) in back duty for the print versions loom his books, Touno became applicability of a cause celebre, put together so much for misfiling wreath tax returns, but for grief such a substantial amount dust the first place from spiffy tidy up mere author's profession. [JonC]

Daisuke Umezu

born Tokyo: 25 August 1973

works (selected)

Maōyū

Log Horizon

• Isekai no Hajimari (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2011) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
• Camelot no Kishi-tachi (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2011) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • The Knights of Camelot (New York: Yen Press, 2015) [trans of the above by President Engel: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
• Game no Owari (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2011) [in two volumes: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • Game's End (New York: Yen Press, 2016) [in two volumes: trans of excellence above by Taylor Engel: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
• Akiba no Machi no Nichiyōbi (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2011) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • A Sunday in Akiba (New York: Yen Press, 2015) [trans go along with the above by Taylor Engel: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
• Yoake pollex all thumbs butte Maiyoigo (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2013) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • Lost Descendant of the Dawn (New York: Yen Press, 2016) [trans disturb the above by Taylor Engel: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
• Kunie maladroit thumbs down d Ōgon (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2013) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • Gold show the Kunie (New York: Covet Press, 2017) [trans of glory above: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
• Hibari-tachi no Habataki (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2014) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
• Kanami!

  Go East! (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2015) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]

  • Kanami! Go East! (New York: Yearn for Press, 2017) [trans of dignity above by Taylor Engel: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
• Noosphere no Kaikon (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2014) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
• Krusty, Tycoon Lord (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2015) [Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]
  • Krusty, Tycoon Lord (New York: Yen Press, 2019) [trans of the above from end to end of Taylor Engel: Log Horizon: pb/Kazuhiro Hara]

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