Chiaki J. Konaka
Chiaki J. Konaka | |
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| Born | Chiaki Konaka April 4, 1961 |
| Occupation(s) | screenwriter, scenarist |
Chiaki J. Konaka (小中 千昭, Konaka Chiaki), born April 4, 1961) is a Japanese writer and scenarist best known for Serial Experiments Lain, and later for the Digimon season, Digimon Tamers. He is also known to be the creator of Ultraman Gaia, as cited by Tsuburaya Productions.
Konaka's serious works generally have a dark, psychological tone. As a Cthulhu Mythos writer, he tends to add Lovecraftian elements to his works.[1][2]
"Chiaki J. Konaka" is a very unusual name, as Japanese names typically do not include middle names. Konaka states that the "J" evokes the "Christian" name "John", due to his being born to parents who were members of the Anglican church, but he does not identify as Christian. He began using the "J" at the age of 12, when he began making 8mm film; he patterned the style after Western names such as ""Charles M. Schulz".[3]
He has cited Ghost Hound as his favorite screenwriting project.
List of works
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Anime
- Armitage III: Screenplay, Original Manga
- Astro Boy (2003 TV series): Script
- The Big O: Screenplay, Series Supervision
- Birdy the Mighty: Screenplay
- Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040: Screenplay
- Catnapped!: Screenplay
- Despera: Script
- Devil Lady: Script (episodes 1-5, 8, 12, 18, 25-26), Series Creation
- Digimon Adventure 02: Scenario (episode 13)
- Digimon Tamers: Series Composition, Script (episodes 1-3, 7, 13-14, 23-24, 34-35, 41, 44-45, 49-51), Series Structure
- Futari Ecchi: Script
- Ghost Hound: Series Composition, Screenplay
- GR: Giant Robo: Series Composition
- Hellsing: Series Composition, Script (episodes 1-6, 8-9, 11-13)
- Magic User's Club: Script (eps 2-6), Novelization (1,2,5,6)
- Malice@Doll: Script, Original story
- Parasite Dolls: Script
- Princess Tutu: Script (4, 9, 22, 23)
- RahXephon: Screenplay (episodes 11-12, 17-18, 24-25)
- RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio: Screenplay
- Serial Experiments Lain: Screenplay, Series Structure
- Shadow Star: Series Composition, Script (eps 1-3, 12-13)
- Texhnolyze: Scenario (episodes 1-4, 6, 12, 20-22), Series Story Editor
- Vampire Princess Miyu: Script (ep 20)
Tokusatsu
Cthulhu Mythos
- Cthulhu's Strange Record
- Insmus wo Oou Kage (a Japanese television adaptation of The Shadow Over Innsmouth)
- "Terror Rate", a short story included in Volume 2 of the Lairs of the Hidden Gods anthology (Kurodahan Press: ISBN 4-902075-12-1)
Novel
- Marebito (also screenplay of 2004 feature film)
References
- ^ Bush, Laurence (2001). Asian Horror Encyclopedia. Writers Club Press. pp. 101–102. ISBN 0-595-20181-4.
- ^ "Ask John: Is There Any Lovecraftian Anime?". AnimeNation. 2002-08-13. Retrieved 2008-01-01.
- ^ [1]
External links
- Chiaki J. Konaka's homepage
- List of works at the Japanese Horror Movies Database
- Chiaki Konaka at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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