Tomihiko Morimi

Twitter: @Tomihiko_Morimi Morimi Tomihiko is a novelist who was born on January 6, 1979 in Japan. He graduated from Kyoto University with a major in agriculture. Now he lives in Kyoto and the settings of most of his novels are Kyoto. Though many of the main characters in his novels are dull college students, his literary style is very colorful and sophisticated! Most of his stories can be categorized as magical realism fiction. His books are very popular among young people, especially among college students. In 2003 he won the 15th Japan Fantasy Novel Award for Taiyou no Tou and in 2006 he was nominated for the Seiun Prize for his novel Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei, which was adapted into a tv anime series in 2010. He married on January 6, 2009. (Source: AniDB)