Kazuma Kamachi

Kazuma Kamachi 鎌池和馬 Kamachi Kazuma is the pen name of a Japanese author who has published over 100 light novel volumes He is best known for the creation of the A Certain Magical Index franchise which as of 2019 has sold over 30 million copies worldwide and has been licensed in North America by Yen Press with the first novel being released in Q4 2014 Kazuma Kamachi has stated that ever since he was a child he had always wanted to become a novelist spending his student days in trying to achieve this dream However his intention was never to become a popular writer From the time he was in junior high school bitbybit he started writing but it was not until he graduated from high school that he ever completed any of his work Kamachi submitted his novel Schrödingers Machi シュレディンガーの街 to the 9th Dengeki Game Novel Prize but it was rejected in the third roundDespite this his work caught the attention of editorincharge of the award Kazuma Miki who offered him a chance to write another work For around a year Kamachi exchanged and discussed prototype stories with Miki and made his debut with A Certain Magical Index in April 2004 after 6 or 7 revisions The initial volume was written as a complete story in case that it would not sell however after selling well it was decided that it would become a series A Certain Magical Index would soon be adapted to a manga then to an anime a movie games etc turning into an extremely popular franchise This in turn led to the series breaking many Dengeki Bunko the series publisher records such as being the first series to have 1 2 and then 3 million copies in circulation In April 2016 Kamachi signed a contract to write for Kazuma Mikis new company Straight Edge Inc On July 10 2020 he became the first Dengeki writer to have published 100 volumes under their label He states that many of his predebut works including the prototypes he sent to Miki remains stored away at his house