Kafka Asagiri

Kafka Asagiri
Kanji	朝霧カフカ
Rōmaji	Asagiri Kafuka
Also Known As	Kaina Yogiri (夜霧 カイナ,, Yogiri Kaina?) (Niconico username)
Personal Information
Status	Alive
Birthday	March 17
Age	40
Gender	Male
Professional Information
Occupation	Mangaka Scenario writer Salaryman (former)
Years Active	2012-
Social Media	Twitter Niconico (inactive)

Kafka Asagiri (朝霧 カフカ, , Asagiri Kafuka^?) is a mangaka, scenario writer, light novelist and creator of the Bungo Stray Dogs series.

Biography

Asagiri was born on March 17, 1984 in Ehime, Japan. Before working on the Bungo Stray Dogs series, he originally worked as a salaryman in an automobile company. During this second and third year, he thought he could become a scenario writer. Still, his job was demanding, and it did not let him both work and write stories, so Asagiri quit in early 2012 to pursue a career in scenario writing.

After leaving the job, he decided to create things while he continued looking for a scenario-writing job; during this time, he created a Niconico channel and videos. He would create a video series titled "Yukkuri Yōmu and the Really Scary Cthulhu Mythos" featuring Touhou series character Yōmu Konpaku in Yukkuri form explaining the Cthulhu mythos which quickly got popular. Soon this series would be given a novelization titled "Minase Yōmu and the Really Scary Cthulhu Mythos".

Four months after uploading the video series, he was approached by the editor-in-chief of Monthly Shōnen Ace to come up with three projects in a span of two weeks and later on also approached by the Young Ace editorial department. Soon he would come up with the idea of Bungo Stray Dogs based on the idea of having late authors drawn as young adults and teenagers with special abilities.

Works

Year	Work
2012	Bungo Stray Dogs
2013	Minase Yōmu and the Really Scary Cthulhu Mythos
	Ayane Shionomiya never makes an error!
2014	Bungo Stray Dogs: Osamu Dazai's Entrance Exam
	Bungo Stray Dogs: Osamu Dazai and the Dark Era
2015	Bungo Stray Dogs: The Untold Origins of the Detective Agency
2016	Bungo Stray Dogs Gaiden: Ayatsuji Yukito VS. Kyōgoku Natsuhiko
	Bungo Stray Dogs: 55 Minutes
2017	GHOST IN THE SHELL Novel Anthology
2019	Bungo Stray Dogs: BEAST
	Bungo Stray Dogs: Dazai, Chūya, Age Fifteen
	Guilty Children
2021	Bungo Stray Dogs: STORM BRINGER
2022	Bungo Stray Dogs: The Day I Picked Up Dazai

Influences

Asagiri has stated that he was influenced by the manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure when creating the Bungo Stray Dogs series. He also has said that he was a fan of RPG games such as Dragon Quest and was also addicted to making games using the RPG Maker software where he was constantly making stories in these games. He reminisces that it may have been at that time that the switch to storytelling was turned on. He comments that he is not particularly bothered by the media used to tell stories but, he wants to make sure that the stories he crafts fit into the medium itself.

Trivia

• Asagiri's blood type is AB.
• Asagiri started work on the series at age 28.
• Kafka Asagiri's pseudonym is derived from Franz Kafka, a Czech writer considered to be one of the pillars of 20th Century literature.