Akatsuki Yamatoya
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| Gender: | Male |
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| Date of birth: | July 27, 1972 (52) |
| Place of birth: | Tokyo Metropolis, Japan |
| Position: | Screenplay |
| Years active: | 1997-present |
| Aliases: | やまとや ぎょう |
| Website: | Horse Racing Blog |
| Akatsuki is usually used as a surname instead of first name. | |
Akatsuki Yamatoya (大和屋 暁 Yamatoya Akatsuki), born 27 July 1972, is a Japanese screenplay writer from Tokyo. He is famous for his participation in different superhero series, is also a lyricist, and loves horse racing.
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[hide]Biography
Yamatoya started writing scripts for anime ever since 1997. He studied under his father Atsushi Yamatoya (大和屋 竺)'s apprentice Yoshio Urasawa. He is extremely active in writing anime scripts, he was one of the main organizers of the anime series Gintama (銀魂). Later in 2005, he started writing scripts for tokusatsus such as Mahō Sentai Magiranger (魔法戦隊マジレンジャー), he even wrote lyrics for some songs within that tokusatsu.
He joined Detective Conan by writing comedy stories first, which is similar to the style of his teacher and mentor, Urasawa. More recently he began writing honkaku ha (本格派) or orthodox mysteries, which are similar to whodunit or puzzler mysteries. On the 10th of July 2023, he posted an article on his personal horse racing blog[1], declaring that he was responsible for writing the mystery tour of that year.
Scenarios written
Number of case scenarios written: 30 (38 episodes)
Specials
Number of Specials written: 1
- The Shining Payload (Planetarium Special 4)
Other notable works
Anime
- Black Jack: Screenplay
- Digimon: Screenplay
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Screenplay
- Gintama: Screenplay, Series organizer
- Soul Eater: Screenplay
- Tantei Gakuen Q: Screenplay
- Many other anime including Transformers, Ojamajo Doremi, Inuyasha, and Narutoetc.
Tokusatsu
- Mahō Sentai Magiranger: Screenplay
- Samurai Sentai Shinkenger: Screenplay
