Kinoko Nasu

Kinoko Nasu (奈須 きのこ) is a Japanese author, best known for writing the light novel The Garden of Sinners and visual novels Tsukihime and Fate/stay night, and a co-founder of Type-Moon.

He graduated from Hosei University with a major in human science.

Among his earlier works are the novels Kara no Kyōkai, originally released in 1998 and re-printed in 2004, Angel Notes, Mahōtsukai no Yoru and Kōri no Hana.

Together with his junior high school classmate and friend Takashi Takeuchi, Nasu formed Type-Moon in 2000, originally as a dōjin group to create the visual novel Tsukihime, which soon gained immense popularity.

His influences include Hideyuki Kikuchi, Yukito Ayatsuji, Soji Shimada, Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Kenji Takemoto, Ken Ishikawa and Yasuhiro Nightow.

After the success of Tsukihime, Type-Moon became a commercial organization.

A sequel to Tsukihime, Kagetsu Tohya, was released in August 2001.

On 28 January 2004, Type-Moon released Fate/stay night, written by Nasu; it, too, gained great success, becoming one of the most popular visual novels on the day of its release.

A sequel to Fate/stay night, Fate/hollow Ataraxia, was released on 28 October 2005.

Nasu's visual novel work has been adapted to extremely popular manga and anime series.