Reki Kawahara

Reki Kawahara (川 原 砾jap, Kawahara Reki ) is the pseudonym of a Japanese author of Light Novels.

Life

Reki Kawaharas debut novel, Sword Art Online, he wrote under the pseudonym Fumio Kunori (九 里 史 生) with the intention of him as a contribution to the Dengeki Game SHOSETSU Taishō (電撃 ゲーム 小説 大賞, " Big Dengeki computer games Novel Prize" ) 2002 Light Novel Dengeki Bunko Imprints submit the publisher ASCII Media Works. Since, however, he crossed the page boundary, he finally gave up one submission and put the plant in November 2002 on his website. Over time, he added this web novel by three sequels novel and short stories. The Web 's novel had about 6.5 million page views. The central theme of the work are fully immersive virtual realities as computer games.

In November / December 2007, he published Chōzetsu Kasoku Burst Linker (超絶 加速 バースト·リンカー, Chōzetsu Kasoku Basuto Rinka ) turn on the network. Its theme is similar also to that of Sword Art Online. Under the revised title Accel World he sent this one as a contribution for the same price competition and won the Grand Prize. At the same time, the publisher offered him to move professionally and to Sword Art Online. The first volume of Accel World was released in February 2009 and the Sword Art Online in April.

Both received Accel World and Sword Art Online 2012 on the 20th anniversary of ASCII Media Works reactions as an anime series. At the Tokyo Anime Awards, he was awarded for Sword Art Online for Best action and adaptation for Best TV Show. 2012 and 2013 Sword Art Online was the best-selling Light Novel series, while Accel World debuted at number 2 or 20.

In addition to MMORPGs like Ultima Online, with which he started in 1998, or Ragnarok Online, Reki Kawahara was a writer ( published the first two volumes as The shark of Shinjuku in German ) by Arimasa Osawa and its detective novel series Shinjuku Zame coined.