is a

Seiun Award The is a Japanese speculative fiction award given each year for the best science fiction works and achievements during the previous calendar year. Organized and overseen by , the awards are given at the annual Nihon SF Taikai, Japan Science Fict ...

-winning author noted for his

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

light novel A light novel (, Hepburn: ''raito noberu'') is a style of young adult novel primarily targeting high school and middle school students. The term "light novel" is a ''wasei-eigo'', or a Japanese term formed from words in the English languag ...

series ''

Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu is a Japanese sci-fi light novel series written by Mizuhito Akiyama with illustrations by Eeji Komatsu that centers on the relationship between Kana Iriya, a high school girl who has to fight alien invaders, and Naoyuki Asaba, a member of t ...

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He graduated from

Hosei University is a private university based in Tokyo, Japan. The university originated in a school of law, Tōkyō Hōgakusha (, i.e. Tokyo association of law), established in 1880, and the following year renamed Tōkyō Hōgakkō (, i.e. Tokyo school of law ...

, where he had learned about writing novels in a seminar class under guidance from his teacher, Professor Mizuhito Kanehara, from whom Akiyama took his pen name "Mizuhito". In 1995, after his senior Hideyuki Furuhashi debuted as a

writer, Akiyama sent his own work in for the

Dengeki Novel Prize The is a literary award handed out annually (since 1994) by the Japanese publisher ASCII Media Works (formerly MediaWorks) for their Dengeki Bunko light novel imprint. The contest has discovered many popular and successful light novelists, like K ...

. Although his application was too late for the due date, he came into the notice of the editors at MediaWorks'. His first novel, '' E. G. Combat'', published in 1998, was followed by a number of science fiction and light novel works. Akiyama became famous for his unique storytelling in the series ''Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu''. Akiyama describes himself as being "one who always look like a hooligan", in his afterthoughts at the end of the first ''Iriya'' novel.

Works

* '' E. G. Combat'' * ''

Kurogane Communication is a Japanese manga series written by Hideo Kato and illustrated by Tomomasa Takuma. The individual chapters were originally serialized in '' Dengeki Daioh'' in 1997 and published in two ''tankōbon'' volume by MediaWorks. Set in a post-ap ...

'' * '' Neko no Chikyūgi'', illustrated by

You Shiina is a Japanese freelance illustrator and manga artist. They have worked on light novel and children's book covers and illustrations as well as game package and character design. They are best known for their illustration work on the ''Ascendance ...

* ''

'' * '' Minamino Minamino'' * '' Ore wa Missile'' (Winner of the

for Best Japanese Short Story of the Year in 2003) * '' Unabara no Yōjinbō'' * '' Dragonbuster''

References

Japanese science fiction writers Writers from Yamanashi Prefecture 1971 births Living people {{Japan-writer-stub