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Kujo Natsuki

くじょう なつき

Kujo Natsuki

Profile

Gender
Unknown
Born
0000-00-00
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
Novelist
Active Years
2006-

Education

Yamagata Junior College
Department of Japanese Literature
Country: Japan
Graduated from the Department of Japanese Literature

Awards

C★NOVELS Prize (2nd) — Special Prize
2006
Work: Werewolf — Oldenburg Detective Agency Records
Category: 特別賞
Organization: Chuokoron-Shinsha
Result: Winner (Special Prize)

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Oldenburg Detective Agency Records (Werewolf)

2006 Light novel / Fantasy

A fantasy-tinged mystery set around a detective agency that handles uncanny cases. The first entry in the series focuses on a werewolf-related case.

the uncannydetective fictionnon-human/monster themes

Tamashisouya Strange Tales

Horror / Fantasy

A series of short and interlinked stories concerning spirits and hauntings, told in a ghost-story style.

ghostsafterlifememory and loss

Heirs of the Wings

Fantasy

A multi-volume fantasy about crests and pacts, following a traditional epic structure.

crestspactsknighthood

Yura Spiritual Consultation Office (Chuko Bunko edition)

Ghost stories / Horror short stories

A short-story collection about a spiritual consultation office; some stories were adapted into a voice drama.

consultationspiritual phenomenahuman relationships
Adaptations
  • [Voice drama] Yura Spiritual Consultation Office (voice drama) (2018)

Bibliography

  • Oldenburg Detective Agency Records (Werewolf; Vampire; Hexe vol.1 & 2; El's Fantasy)
  • Tamashisouya Strange Tales (Kara no Kakera; Awatsuki no Yume; Tasogare no Ihojin; Tsuioku no Uta; Rasen no Yami; Soten no Tsubasa)
  • Heirs of the Wings (#1 Crest of Contract; #2 Knight of the Crest; #3 Sealed Crest; #4 Ruler of the Crest)
  • Kakoku Shinki (The Stolen True Name; Those Bewildered by the Bewitching Mist; Voices from the Void; Banquet of Flames; The One-Eyed Guardian)
  • Gunshots Resound in the Azure Sky and the Moon of Demise (Grua Prison; Two Escapees; The Ruler's Trap; Dawn of the Isolated Island)
  • World Without Sky (Almina) (Falling Girl and the Beast of Destruction; Struggling Girl and the Darkness of the Autonomous Region; Running Girl and the Light of Demise)
  • Yura Spiritual Consultation Office (Chuko Bunko edition)
  • My Boyfriend Is Rotten

Adaptations

  • Yura Spiritual Consultation Office (adapted as voice drama)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
light-novel narrative stylefantastical and uncanny imagerydelicate depiction of characters' inner feelings
Recurring Motifs
ghosts / spiritual phenomenacrests and pactsmemory and loss

Legacy

Kujo Natsuki is a Japanese light-novel and fantasy author who debuted after winning a special prize at the C★NOVELS competition. She is known for works that blend the uncanny and the fantastic; some works have been republished in paperback and adapted into voice drama.

Archives

  • National Diet Library holdings / authority
  • Publisher (Chuokoron-Shinsha) archival materials

In Popular Culture

  • Yura Spiritual Consultation Office voice drama (A-KOE)

Trivia

  • Debuted after receiving a special prize in the 2nd C★NOVELS competition.
  • Parts of 'Yura Spiritual Consultation Office' were adapted into a voice drama (A-KOE).
  • Graduated from Yamagata Junior College, Department of Japanese Literature.