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is a Japanese
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 ...
writer and translator. Born in
Kanagawa prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kana ...
. He is from Keio University Fantasy Study Group. When he was a college student, he posted a coterie translation of an English tabletop RPG "TORG" supplement to Shinkigensha, which was publishing a translated version of this game at the time, and became a member of the translation team because of his ability. Since then, he has expanded his range of activities to translating American comics and writing novels. Kaiho has had experience teaming up with
Kazutaka Kodaka is a Japanese video game designer, writer and mangaka. His work is known for recurring themes of contrasting hope/despair, luck/talent, truth/lies; mixing tragedy with dark humor, numerous plot-twists etc. He was an employee of Spike Chunsoft ( ...
. While the original plot for the anime '' Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School'' was planned by Kodaka, Kaihō was in charge of revising the scripts to adapt them into the anime series. Kaihō was chosen by Lerche to write the anime based on his knowledge with the franchise. For ''
Akudama Drive is a 2020 Japanese cyberpunk anime television series conceptualized by Kazutaka Kodaka and produced by Pierrot and Too Kyo Games. It was written by Norimitsu Kaihō and directed by Tomohisa Taguchi. Set in a dystopian future in Kansai, the ...
'', Kaihō and Kodaka had multiple talks in the making of the anime's script and left it to director Tomohisa Taguchi to decide how to handle it once finishing it. In an ''Anime Trending'' poll, Kaihō won the "Best in Original Screenplay" award.


Work list


Novel

*''Enterbrain Famitsu Bunko'' *''Valkyrie's Gambit Rinne Senki Zenoscape'' *''Go beyond my corpse Cursed siblings' round dance'' *''GUILTY GEAR X Silver Thunder'' *''GUILTY GEAR X Butterfly and Gale'' *''Growlanser Midnight Rainbow'' *''Shikigami no Shiro O.V.E.R.S.ver 0.81'' *''Shikigami no Shiro Gunsmoke Witch'' *''Shikigami no Shiro II Sun Volume'' *''Shikigami no Shiro II Yin no Maki'' *''Shikigami no Shiro II Paradise Typhoon'' *''Shikigami no Shiro III World Time Travelers'' *''Jingai Makyo Fantastica of Nine'' *''Jingai Makyo Riders of Darkness'' *''Harvest Publishing / Minori Bunko'' *''Goddess Ibunroku Devil Survivor Anthology Novel'' *''Tadashi Oboromura ~ Princess Torigo and Pinky Swear ~'' *''ASCII Media Works Dengeki Game Bunko'' *''ROBOTICS; NOTES'' Unpublished notes of Misaki Senomiya


Drama CD

*''GUILTY GEAR X Drama CD VOL.1, VOL.2'' *''GUILTY GEAR XX Drama CD SIDE: RED, BLACK'' *''GUILTY GEAR XX Drama CD "Night of Nives Vol.1 ~ 3"''


Manga

*''Guilty Gear XTRA'' (Original draft, drawing: Shoji Kumai, "Monthly Magazine Z") *''
School-Live! is a Japanese manga series written by Norimitsu Kaihō and illustrated by Sadoru Chiba. The series was serialized from May 24, 2012 to November 22, 2019 in the Houbunsha's ''Manga Time Kirara Forward'' magazine and is licensed in English ...
'' (Original , Drawing: Sadoru Chiba, "Manga Time Kirara Forward" July 2012-January 2020) *''School-Live! ~ News ~'' (Original, Drawing: Sadoru Chiba, "Manga Time Kirara Forward" August 2020 issue-) *''Labyrinth Detective Minato Lock'' (provisional) → If death also dies (Original , drawing: Komaku, cooperation: Monster *Lounge, "Monthly Dragon Age" December 2018 issue-, 2019 1 Renamed to monthly issue) *''
Deep Insanity ''Deep Insanity'' is a Japanese mixed-media project created and produced by Square Enix and Ubisoft. It consists of a manga titled ''Deep Insanity: Nirvana'' that began serialization in ''Monthly Big Gangan'' in January 2020, a mobile game, ...
'' (Original draft Makoto Fukami is a Japanese manga artist, novelist, and screenwriter. He started writing manga in 1999 and since has had multiple of his series adapted into other media. In addition to manga, he also did screenwriting for ''Psycho-Pass'' and its first film ' ...
>, drawing:
Etorouji Shiono is a Japanese manga artist. After debuting in 2003, he launched ''Übel Blatt'' in the following year, which saw success internationally and won the Japan Expo Award in the ''seinen'' category in 2008. Starting in 2020, he did the illustrations ...
, "Monthly Big Gangan" 2020 vol.2-)


Game scenario

*''Jingai Makyo'' (in the name of Shiro Yato) *''Home GUILTY GEAR X Story Mode'' *''Home GUILTY GEAR XX Story Mode'' *''GUILTY GEAR 2 OVERTURE Story mode''


Anime

Series head writer is denoted in bold. *''
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet is a Japanese anime television series produced by Production I.G and directed by Kazuya Murata, and aired between April and June 2013. A manga adaptation began serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's ''Newtype Ace'' magazine in January 2013. ...
'' (2013) *''
Gunslinger Stratos is a series of third-person hero shooter video games, developed by Byking and Taito, and published by Square Enix. It debuted in arcades on July 12, 2012, with the scenario provided by Norimitsu Kaihō (from Nitroplus) based on a concept by ...
'' (2015) *''
School-Live! is a Japanese manga series written by Norimitsu Kaihō and illustrated by Sadoru Chiba. The series was serialized from May 24, 2012 to November 22, 2019 in the Houbunsha's ''Manga Time Kirara Forward'' magazine and is licensed in English ...
'' (2015) *''
Luck & Logic is a media franchise created by Bushiroad with five other companies: Bandai Visual, Doga Kobo, Nitroplus, Lantis, and Yuhodo. It consists of a trading card game, with the first products released on February 28, 2016, and an anime television ...
'' (2016) *'' Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak High School'' (2016) *''
Kaiju Girls is a Japanese series of web anime shorts that first aired September 27, 2016, provided by the Docomo Anime Store service. These shorts are part of the , a moe anthropomorphism project made by Tsuburaya Productions based on past monsters/ali ...
'' (2016): original draft and setting *''
Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka is a Japanese magical girl/military manga series written by Makoto Fukami and illustrated by Seigo Tokiya. Naoya Tamura is the series' military advisor. It was serialized in Square Enix's ''seinen'' manga magazine '' Monthly Big Gangan'' ...
'' (2019) *''
Astra Lost in Space is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kenta Shinohara. It was serialized online from May 2016 to December 2017 via Shueisha's ''Shōnen Jump+'' website/app. It was collected in five ''tankōbon'' volume. Viz Media published t ...
'' (2019) *''
Akudama Drive is a 2020 Japanese cyberpunk anime television series conceptualized by Kazutaka Kodaka and produced by Pierrot and Too Kyo Games. It was written by Norimitsu Kaihō and directed by Tomohisa Taguchi. Set in a dystopian future in Kansai, the ...
'' (2020) *'' Deep Insanity: The Lost Child'' (2020) *'' Giant Beasts of Ars'' (2023)


Live action TV

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Kamen Rider Gaim is a Japanese television series, a tokusatsu drama that is in the Kamen Rider Series; it is the 15th series during its Heisei run and 24th overall. The series, written by Gen Urobuchi, directed by Ryuta Tasaki and produced by Naomi Takebe, began a ...
'' (2014)


RPGs

*''Table talk RPG'' *''BEAST BIND Demon Beast Bond R.P.G'' (in charge of the world view part. Main design is Junichi Inoue)


Translation

*''TORG'' (one of the translation teams, Shinkigensha) *''X-Men'' (translated version released by Shogakukan Productions) *''Watchmen'' (one of the translation teams, Shogakukan Productions) *''Sandman'' (Interbooks)


References


External links


Official Twitter account
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kaihō, Norimitsu Japanese novelists Living people People from Kanagawa Prefecture Keio University alumni Year of birth missing (living people)