Akatsuki Yamatoya
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| Gender: | Male |
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| Date of birth: | July 27, 1972 (53) |
| 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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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: 31 (39 episodes)
- The Glamping Mystery (Episode 961)
- The Case On the Opposite Shore (Episode 978)
- An Encouragement of the Perfect Crime (Episode 980)
- The Two Faces (Episodes 985-986)
- The Case of Ayumi's Illustrated Diary (Episode 989)
- Murder at the Townhouse Café (Episode 992)
- The Monorail Sniper Case (Episodes 1016-1017)
- The Cursed Museum (Episode 1022)
- Beyond the Curtain (Episode 1027)
- Whiteout (Episodes 1036-1037)
- The Case of Ayumi's Illustrated Diary 2 (Episode 1040)
- The Deadly Pork Soup Signal (Episode 1044)
- Intrigue at Morikawa Mansion (Episodes 1050-1051)
- The Targeted Chicken Sexer (Episode 1063)
- 'Til Death Do Us Part (Episode 1066)
- The Boiled Fugu Mystery Tour Showdown (Episodes 1074-1075)
- My Beloved Dog Pan-kun Is a Good Boy (Episode 1081)
- Behind the Scenes of the J League Finals (Episode 1083)
- The Case of Ayumi's Illustrated Diary 3 (Episode 1087)
- Girls Day Mystery (Episode 1091)
- The Missing Man's Dream (Episode 1095)
- The Troublesome 20 Million Yen (Episode 1100)
- The Akabeko and the Three Lucky Men (Episode 1102)
- Rube Goldberg Machine (Episodes 1111-1112)
- Girls Day Mystery 2 (Episode 1118)
- The Dangerous Melon Field (Episode 1121)
- The Case of Ayumi's Illustrated Diary 4 (Episode 1125)
- Conan and Megure's Two Hostages (Episodes 1128-1129)
- Girls Day Mystery 3 (Episode 1140)
- The Yamahime of Yakushima (Episodes 1153-1154)
- When the Shishi-odoshi Sounds (Episode 1160)
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
