Kouhei Kadono

Kouhei Kadono (上遠野 浩平) is a Japanese author credited for writing the light-novel Purple Haze Feedback as part of the VS JOJO event. He is also the author of Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak.

Kadono is best known for his  of light-novels which has spawned a multimedia franchise.

Biography
Kouhei Kadono was born on December 12, 1968, in but he was raised in. Kadono graduated from the and from 's Faculty of Economics, Department of Commerce. He has a famous cousin in, a rakugo storyteller.

Prior to his debut as a writer, Kadono participated in several writing competitions for newcomers such as the "Japan Fantasy Novel Awards" or the "Cobalt Novel Awards", and was active as a modeler. In 1991, Kouhei Kadono's work "Vermilion Shinigami" was rejected in the 3rd Fantasia Feature Novel Award. In 1996, his work "Super Magic Hyper Machine" was selected as a finalist for the first "Sonorama Bunko Grand Prize". Kouhei Kadono's breakthrough came in 1997 when he won the 4th Dengeki Novel Grand Prize with his work "", with which he made his official debut as a writer with a publication in 1998. The Boogiepop series became highly successful over the years, selling over 200 million volumes, being translated in English and being adapted into an anime and a movie.

Soon after his debut, Kouhei Kadono continued to write light-novels at Dengeki Bunko and is said to have been one of the key figures behind the light novel boom that began in the 1990s. Afterwards, Kadono continued to publish various light novels for various publishers and expand his activities.

In 2011, Kouhei Kadono wrote the light-novel Purple Haze Feedback depicting the adventures of Pannacotta Fugo after the events of Vento Aureo. It was released as part of the special JoJo 25th Anniversary project "VS JOJO".

In 2019, Kouhei Kadono was in charge of drafting and supervising the world of the virtual card game.

On August 19, 2021, it was announced in Ultra Jump that Kadono would be participating in the production of a one-shot about the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series as the scenarist. Kadono is the writer for the spin-off series Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak.

Works

 *  (23 light novels), 1998 - 2019
 *  (6 light novels), 2000 - 2016
 * Night Watch series (3 light novels + 1 spin-off), 2000 - 2013
 * Beat's Discipline series (4 light novels), 2000 - 2005
 * Shizuru-san series (4 light novels + 1 spin-off), 2003 - 2014
 * Soul Drop series (7 light novels), 2004 - 2012
 * Regret of Valpurgis series (4 light novels), 2007 - 2011
 * Purple Haze Feedback, 2011
 * Additional short story "Trish Handing Flowers"
 * Spiral Emperoider series (4 light novels), 2011 - 2016
 * Manufacture Human series (2 light novels), 2017 - 2020
 * Various one-shots and anthologies
 * Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak (writer), 2021 - 2023
 * Crazy Heartbreakers, 2023

Trivia

 * Much like Hirohiko Araki, Kadono sometimes references musical artists when creating names for his series and characters. For example, the spin-off series, Beat's Discipline is named after 's two albums,  and.