Yukito Ayatsuji

Spouse: Fuyumi Onohttps://anilist.co/staff/97723/ Twitterhttps://twitter.com/ayatsujiyukito Wikipedia jphttps://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/E7B6BEE8BEBBE8A18CE4BABA Novelist who specializes mostly in mystery horror. He wrote ten short mystery novels like his early study Shonen Tanteidan during the summer vacation of his sixth year of elementary school. After graduating from Kyoto Prefectural Katsura High School in 1979 he entered the Faculty of Education at Kyoto University. He was a member of the Kyoto University Mystery Story Study Group. Among his classmates in the club was Fuyumi Onohttps://anilist.co/staff/97723/OnoFuyumi whom he would later marry as well as Takemaru Abikohttps://anilist.co/staff/147116/AbikoTakemaru and Rintaro Norizuki who would become authors. In the winter of his fourth year at university he entered the Edogawa Rampo Prize with a work that was the prototype for the later Jukkakukan no Satsujinhttps://anilist.co/manga/111509/JukkakukannoSatsujin/ and was selected in the first round. In 1984 he entered the Graduate School of Education at the same university majoring in deviant behavior theory and married Fuyumi Onohttps://anilist.co/staff/97723/OnoFuyumi in 1986. The following year while still in school he made his debut as a writer with Jukkakukan no Satsujinhttps://anilist.co/manga/111509/JukkakukannoSatsujin/. The editorial department of Kodansha Novels named it a New Authentic Mystery. He completed his masters degree in two years and went on to study for a doctorate for three years but then took a leave of absence for three years and withdrew with credits without writing a doctoral thesis. In March 1992 he became a fulltime writer. and in the same year he won the Mystery Writers Association of Japan Award in the feature story category for Tokeikan no Satsujin. As of February 2012 the total number of copies of his representative works the Kan series has exceeded 4.09 million. It consists of 9 novels: Jukkakukan no Satsujin 1987 Suishakan no Satsujin 1988 Meirokan no Satsujin 1988 Ningyokan no Satsujin 1989 Tokeikan no Satsujin 1991 Kuronekokan no Satsujin 1992 Ankokukan no Satsujin 2004 Bikkurinkan no Satsujin 2006 Ki menkan no Satsujin 2012