YÅ«to Tonokawa

Yuto Tonokawa (Japanese都 乃 河 勇 人, Tonokawa Yuto; born January 25 ) is the pseudonym of a Japanese author who works for the game developer key belonging to Visual Art's, in the drafting and revision of the scenario of the games.

Biography

His first short stories written Yuto Tonokawa in middle school. However, he announced that he had never read a lot and would have dealt mainly during his time in middle school only with Light Novels and modern literature. In high school he began to read the works of the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Japanese folklorist Yanagita Kunio and Shinobu Orikuchi. At this time he played with the idea of ​​a seiyū, or mangaka to be, then decided, however, an author for actions to be. During his school time Yuto experimented with the Kirikiri game engine and created his first Japanese adventure, but which had neither graphics nor music. He called this a valuable experience, as he had found it, how much the writing style of the would distinguish a normal history.

Initially he worked at Visual Art's in a little-known team. As a young Maeda of Key but was looking for another writer, was for him the happy opportunity for this team to enter, which he readily accepted. Previously he had after the completion of his studies only offer submitted to participate as external writer. This eventually made ​​him a scenario writers from Key. He had arranged for a 600-page CV for attention, which also contained a story about a female character.

Since August 2005, he worked for Key at different levels and eventually took over the role of the retiring Jun Maeda in the eighth work of Key Rewrite. In addition to his work as a writer, he is also the official blog of Key in closer relationship with the fans.

Works

After joining Key, he worked as the debugging of Tomoyo After - It's a Wonderful Life. Later, he expanded the game with additional scenarios for Takafumi and Kanako, which were supplemented in the PlayStation 2 version of the game.

His first major task was the participation in the development of Keys sixth game Little Busters! . For this he wrote the action portions of the two main characters Komari Kamikita and Yuiko Kurugaya. He also worked the action of Sasami Sasasegawa in Little Busters! Ecstasy out.

His first work as a songwriter was the title of Alice Magic, the Little Busters! Ecstasy was used as credits.

In addition to Romeo Tanaka and Ryukishi07 he was one of three writers on the game Rewrite, and Rewrite Harvest festa its sequel! .