Hideyuki Kikuchi

Hideyuki Kikuchi
Born (1949-09-25) 25 September 1949
Chōshi, Chiba Japan1
Occupation Novelist, Author
Genre Horror, Fantasy

Hideyuki Kikuchi (菊地 秀行 Kikuchi Hideyuki, born September 25, 1949) is a Japanese author famous for his horror novels. His most famous works include the Vampire Hunter D series, Darkside Blues and Wicked City.

Biography

Kikuchi was born in Chōshi, Japan on September 25, 1949. He attended Aoyama Gakuin University and was trained as a writer by famed author Kazuo Koike. His first novel, Demon City Shinjuku, was published in 1982. While his first novels are typical novel prose, as he gained fame, he adapted a more terse writing style.

Kikuchi became close friends with writer and director Yoshiaki Kawajiri during his adaption of Wicked City and the two have since collaborated on Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust and the OVA of Demon City Shinjuku.

Works

Novels

Invader Summer and A Wind Named Amnesia were republished together in one volume in August 2005, with illustrations by Eiji Kaneda.

Demon City Blues series

Vampire Hunter D series

Treasure Hunter series

A series of young adult fiction novels (also called the Alien Series for use of "alien" in each title), the story follows a seemingly ordinary high schooler named Dai Yagashira, who journeys around the world collecting rare and supernatural treasures. A member of ITHA (International Treasure Hunters Association) and heir to a family of treasure hunters, Yagashira fights soldiers, private militia, and fellow treasure hunters using both high-tech weapons and powerful artifacts. While the original illustrations were provided by Yoshitaka Amano (with the exception of the illustrations by Masahiro Shibata for “Black Death Empire”), the illustrations in the bound volumes are by Koichiro Yonemura.

  1. Alien‐Hidden Treasure Town (エイリアン秘宝街)
  2. Alien‐Monster Zone 1 (エイリアン魔獣境1)
  3. Alien‐Monster Zone 2 (エイリアン魔獣境2)
  4. Alien‐Apocalypse Record (エイリアン黙示録)
  5. Alien‐Monster Cat Tale (エイリアン怪猫伝)
  6. Alien‐Otherworldly Journey by Sea (エイリアン魔界航路)
  7. Alien‐Mystic Mountain Chronicle (エイリアン妖山記)
  8. Alien‐Treacherous Sea Tale (エイリアン邪海伝)
  9. Alien‐Luoyang Strange Tales (エイリアン京洛異妖編)
  10. Alien‐God's Country (first volume) (エイリアン魔神国 上巻)
  11. Alien‐God's Country (second volume) (エイリアン魔神国 中巻)
  12. Alien‐God's Country (third volume) (エイリアン魔神国 下巻)
  13. Alien‐God's Country (Conclusion 1) (エイリアン魔神国 完結編1)
  14. Alien‐God's Country (Conclusion 2) (エイリアン魔神国 完結編2)
  15. Alien‐God's Country (Conclusion 3) (エイリアン魔神国 完結編3)
  16. Alien‐Noble God's Castle (エイリアン蒼血魔城)
  17. Alien‐Black Death Empire (first volume) (エイリアン黒死帝国 上巻)
  18. Alien‐Black Death Empire (second volume) (エイリアン黒死帝国 下巻)

Manga

Novelizations

Short stories

See also

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