Kinoko Nasu
Birth:Nov 28, 1973
Age:49
Gender:Male
Years active:1998-Present
Hometown:Chiba Prefecture, JapanA Japanese author best known for writing the visual novels Tsukihime and Fate/stay night. Renowned for a unique style of storytelling and prose, Nasu is amongst the most prominent visual novelists in Japan.Together with high school classmate and friend, Takeuchi Takashi, Nasu formed TYPE-MOON in 2000, originally as a doujin group to create the visual novel Tsukihime. It soon gained immense popularity, much of which is attributed to Nasu's unique style of storytelling. A sequel to Tsukihime, Kagetsu Tohya, was released on August 2001.