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Akinosuke Nishiyama

にしやま あきのすけ

Nishiyama Akinosuke

Pen Names: Akinosuke NishiyamaUsed as his pen name

Profile

Gender
Male
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
light novel author, screenwriter, manga original author
Active Years
2020-

Awards

GA Bunko Award
2020
Work: Kansto Village's Retired Demon — A Slow Life After Everything Ended (retitled: The Retired Demon of Kansto Village — The Frontier's Great Blacksmith)
Organization: GA Bunko (SB Creative)
Result: 銀賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Power Antoinette

2020 Light novel

A light novel with villainess-story elements. Originating from a viral social-media post about a muscle-powered queen, it was serialized on Twitter and later published as the author's debut work.

villainess parodymuscular heroinemonarchy/royal restoration
Adaptations
  • [manga (comic adaptation)] Power Antoinette (comic adaptation)

Kansto Village's Retired Demon — The Frontier's Great Blacksmith

2021 Light novel

The work that won the Silver Prize at the 12th GA Bunko Award. As suggested by its subtitle 'A Slow-Life Tale After Everything Ended', it depicts slow-life and frontier living with fantasy elements.

slow lifefantasyfrontier life

Ryujin Kakusei (Dragon Awakening)

2024 vertical-reading manga (serial)

The author's first serialized work as a manga original author. Serialized on LINE Manga starting November 2024; the author is credited for original story and script.

battleawakeningvertical-reading format

Bibliography

  • Power Antoinette (GA Bunko, 2020-11-13)
  • Power Antoinette 2 (GA Bunko, 2021-05-14)
  • Kansto Village's Retired Demon (GA Bunko, 2021-01-15)
  • Kansto Village's Retired Demon 2 (GA Bunko, 2021-05-14)
  • Ryujin Kakusei (LINE Manga serial, from 2024-11-28)

Adaptations

  • Power Antoinette — comic adaptation announced

Style & Themes

Literary Style
humorous light-novel styledialogue-driven, brisk pacingcharacter-focused depiction
Recurring Motifs
muscular heroinevillainess parodyotherworld/frontier slow life

Legacy

Noted as a social-media-originated breakout, he won a GA Bunko Award and made a commercial debut. He is recognized as an emerging writer active across light novels, screenwriting, and manga original works.

Trivia

  • Power Antoinette began serialization after a viral Twitter post by the author and became his debut work.
  • He won the Silver Prize at the 12th GA Bunko Award for 'Kansto Village's Retired Demon — A Slow-Life Tale After Everything Ended.'
  • There is a claim/statement that he holds the title of duke of the Principality of Sealand.