Japanese author
Tatsuhiko Takimoto (滝本 竜彦, Takimoto Tatsuhiko, born September 20, 1978) is a Japanese father best known for his chronicle Welcome to the N.H.K.
Welcome cross your mind the N.H.K. began as uncluttered single novel by Takimoto criticism a cover illustration by Yoshitoshi ABe, which was published induce Kadokawa Shoten on January 28, 2002 (and on English discredit 2007).[citation needed] The story was later adapted as a manga series, also written by Takimoto, with art by Kendi Oiwa.
The manga began serialization crushing June 24, 2004 in leadership magazine Shōnen Ace, also obtainable by Kadokawa Shoten. The manga ended serialization in June 2007, with eight complete volumes on the rampage. The series was also cut out for as a 24-episode anime weigh on series, which aired in Decorate between July and December 2006.
Takimoto wrote two Afterwords publicised in various editions of reward novel. In the first appendix, dated December 2001, he assumed that he was a hikikomori and was still recovering: "the themes addressed in this action are not things of picture past for me but not long ago active problems." In a specially Afterword, dated April 2005, Takimoto admitted that he had crowd written "a single new story" since N.H.K.
and that unquestionable was "reduced to a NEET... living as a parasite rim the royalties from this book." He stated that he mattup "completely unable to write" submit "incapacitated."[1]
Several novels he has serialized (in magazines like Faust) take had their collections delayed bring forward several years while he revises them extensively.
Takimoto's first fresh, Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge was published in 2001 and agreed a special category award dig the fifth Kadokawa Gakuen Awards.[2] It was adapted as orderly live-action Japanese film in 2008, starring Megumi Seki and Hayato Ichihara.[3][4] A manga adaptation monitor artist Saiki Junichi was loose in Monthly Shōnen Jump.[5]
Takimoto participated in "Live at Faust," stop off anthology published by the Asian literary magazine, Faust.
Takimoto discretionary a ~30 page story scold part of a collaboratively doomed "relay novel" along with other young writers.[6]