Ryūsui Seiryōin (清涼院 流水) is a Japanese novelist, active in mystery and various other fields. He was born in 1974, in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. He won the 2nd Mephisto Prize in 1996 while in Kyoto University, and started to work as a novelist. After that, Ryusui published over 60 novels. His works are always controversial. The JDC (Japan Detectives Club) series has inspired tribute novels by authors like Ōtarō Maijō and Nisio Isin. In 2007, he achieved the publication of the series, "What a perfect world!", for 12 consecutive months. In the same year, he carried out "Doumo tour", the autograph sessions for 12 consecutive months held in Japanese major cities, and made a great success. On May 1, 2009, he launched "bbbcircle", his official website, with Kai Chamberlain, a Canadian cartoonist.

Style

His works defy not only the common wisdom of novels but general knowledge in the broad sense and give new values to readers. His mystery novels, particularly the JDC series, are known for genre-busting metatextual complexity.

Works in English translation

As translator

Seiryoin has been working as a translator from Japanese into English since 2012. Short mystery stories The Gifted series by Ryosuke Akizuki Urban Legend Detectives Case series by Kyosuke Tsumiki The Case Diary of Chinami Chiba series by Takafumi Takada The Sky Crawlers series by Hiroshi Mori S&M Series by Hiroshi Mori Interviews

Works

JDC series

Paperback edition Pocketbook edition JDC manga JDC tribute books

Shoichi Kimura series

Paperback edition Pocketbook edition

Top Run and Land series

Tokuma series

What a Perfect World! series

Done for Kodansha Box—all twelve volumes in one year.

Others