Takekuni Kitayama

Takekuni Kitayama (北山猛邦 Kitayama Takekuni) is a Japanese novelist of mystery fiction. He won the 24th Mephisto Prize for "Clock Castle" Murder Case. His works have been translated into Chinese, Taiwanese and Korean. Kitayama is known as a master of impossible situations with a physical trick behind them.

He wrote the light novel series Danganronpa Kirigiri and also wrote the sound novel Kirigiri Sou. He's also a co-writer for the main series starting from Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, responsible for the writing of murder tricks.

Works
Kitayama's works for the Danganronpa series include:
 * Danganronpa Kirigiri Vol. 1 (Light novel; 2013)
 * Danganronpa Kirigiri Vol. 2 (Light novel; 2013)
 * Danganronpa Kirigiri Vol. 3 (Light novel; 2014)
 * Danganronpa Kirigiri Vol. 4 (Light novel; 2015)
 * Kirigiriso (Sound novel; 2016)
 * Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (Video game; 2017)
 * Danganronpa Kirigiri Vol. 5 (Light novel; 2017)
 * Danganronpa Kirigiri Vol. 6 (Light novel; 2018)
 * Danganronpa Kirigiri Vol. 7 (Light novel; 2020)

In addition to working on the Danganronpa series, Kitayama's most prominent works include:
 * "Clock Castle" Murder Case (Novel; 2002)
 * "Alice Mirror Castle" Murder Case (Novel; 2003)
 * Boy Censorship (Novel; 2007)
 * Dancing Joker (Novel; 2008)
 * How to Remove a Black Cat from a Closed Room (Novel; 2009)
 * Reason Why We Stole the Constellation (Novel; 2011)
 * Orgoliane (Novel; 2014)
 * Teacher Stole the Important Thing (Novel; 2016)