Ryōgo Narita
Ryōgo Narita is a Japanese light novelist and manga writer. He won the Gold Prize in the 9th Dengeki Novel Prize for Baccano!, which was made into an anime television series in 2007. His series Durarara!! was also made into two anime television series, one airing January 2010 and the second in January 2015.
Works
Narita's works all feature a single thematic style, involving an ensemble cast of characters finding their lives intersecting with each other in various ways due to a supernatural entity, and more often than not getting into conflict with each other. Additionally, most of his light novel titles take place within a shared universe known by fans as the "Naritaverse", featuring fantastical elements within an otherwise normal society.''Baccano!''
Baccano! is mostly set within a fictional United States during various time periods, most notably the Prohibition era. It focuses on various people, including alchemists, thieves, thugs, Mafiosi and Camorristi, who are unconnected to one another. After an immortality elixir is recreated in 1930 Manhattan, the characters begin to cross paths, setting off events that spiral further and further out of control. It is illustrated by Katsumi Enami.| # | Name | ISBN |
| 1 | Baccano! The Rolling Bootlegs | |
| 2 | Baccano! 1931 Local Chapter The Grand Punk Railroad | |
| 3 | Baccano! 1931 Express Chapter The Grand Punk Railroad | |
| 4 | Baccano! 1932 Drug & The Dominos | |
| 5 | Baccano! 2001 The Children Of Bottle | |
| 6 | Baccano! 1933 THE SLASH ~Cloudy to Rainy~ | |
| 7 | Baccano! 1933 THE SLASH ~Bloody to Fair~ | |
| 8 | Baccano! 1934 Imprisoned Chapter Alice in Jails | |
| 9 | Baccano! 1934 Street Chapter Alice in Jails | |
| 10 | Baccano! 1934 Conclusion Chapter Peter Pan in Chains | |
| 11 | Baccano! 1705 The Ironic Light Orchestra | |
| 12 | Baccano! 2002 A Side - Bullet Garden | |
| 13 | Baccano! 2002 B Side - Blood Sabbath | |
| 14 | Baccano! 1931 Special Express Chapter Another Junk Railroad | |
| 15 | Baccano! 1710 Crack Flag | |
| 16 | Baccano! 1932 Summer― Man in the Killer | |
| 17 | Baccano! 1711 Whitesmile | |
| 18 | Baccano! 1935-A Deep Marble | |
| 19 | Baccano! 1935-B Dr. Feelgreed | |
| 20 | Baccano! 1931- Winter - The Time of The Oasis | |
| 21 | Baccano! 1935-C The Grateful Bet | |
| 22 | Baccano! 1935-D Luckstreet Boys |
''Etsusa Bridge''
Set on a giant, almost finished bridge between Sadogashima and Niigata. Abandoned by the government, the bridge, and the giant man-made floating island at the center, has become a city of criminals and societal drop-outs. It is illustrated by Suzuhito Yasuda.| # | Name | ISBN |
| 1 | Bow Wow! Two Dog Night | |
| 2 | Mew Mew! Crazy Cat's Night | |
| 3 | Garuguru! Dancing Beast Night | |
| 4 | Garuguru! Dancing Beast Night | |
| Gaiden | 5656! Knights' Strange Night |
''Durarara!!''
Durarara!! tells the story of a dullahan working as an underworld courier in Ikebukuro, an internet-based anonymous gang called the Dollars, and the chaos that unfolds around the most dangerous people in Ikebukuro. It is illustrated by Suzuhito Yasuda.| # | Name | ISBN |
| 1 | Durarara!! | |
| 2 | Durarara!!×2 | |
| 3 | Durarara!!×3 | |
| 4 | Durarara!!×4 | |
| 5 | Durarara!!×5 | |
| 6 | Durarara!!×6 | |
| 7 | Durarara!!×7 | |
| 8 | Durarara!!×8 | |
| 9 | Durarara!!×9 | |
| 10 | Durarara!!×10 | |
| 11 | Durarara!!×11 | |
| 12 | Durarara!!×12 | |
| 13 | Durarara!!×13 | |
| 14 | Durarara!! SH | |
| 15 | Durarara!! SHx2 | |
| 16 | Durarara!! SHx3 | |
| 17 | Durarara!! SHx4 |
''Vamp!''
Vamp! is a light novel series about vampires and other supernatural creatures that live on an island in Germany called Gowerth. It is illustrated by Katsumi Enami.| # | Name | ISBN |
| 1 | Vamp! | |
| 2 | Vamp! II | |
| 3 | Vamp! III | |
| 4 | Vamp! IV | |
| 5 | Vamp! V |
''Hariyama-san''
Hariyama-san, the Heart of the World is a series of connected short stories. They are basically strange or supernatural events that are seemingly unrelated, except that every one of them involves the title character, Shinkichi Hariyama, as a minor character in some capacity. The last story in each volume ties all the previous stories together. It is illustrated by Katsumi Enami and Suzuhito Yasuda.| # | Name | ISBN |
| 1 | Hariyama-san, the Heart of the World | |
| 2 | Hariyama-san, the Heart of the World 2 | |
| 3 | Hariyama-san, the Heart of the World 3 |
''Bleach: Spirits Are Forever With You''
Bleach: Spirits Are Forever With You is a light novel based on the Weekly Shōnen Jump manga Bleach.| # | Name | ISBN |
| 1 | Bleach: Spirits Are Forever With You I | |
| 2 | Bleach: Spirits Are Forever With You II |
''Stealth Symphony''
A manga which follows the story of the main protagonist Jig Kumonuma, as he goes to the city of Jinbō-chō, a place where creatures of different species live, to remove a curse from his body. It is illustrated by Yōichi Amano.| # | Name | ISBN |
| 1 | Stealth Symphony 1 | |
| 2 | Stealth Symphony 2 |
''Fate/strange fake''
The Fate/strange fake novel is a spinoff of Fate/stay night. The story is set during a war that occurs a few years after the conclusion of the Fifth Holy Grail War.The stage: the city of Snowfield in the western U.S., far from Fuyuki. There, a "false Holy Grail War", quite unlike the original Holy Grail War, unfolds. There were those who had been keeping an eye on the auguries of the Holy Grail in Snowfield. According to an investigation by the Mage's Association, the Holy Grail War system in Snowfield was an imitation of the one in Fuyuki. What's more, the system was incomplete, leading to the exclusion of one of the seven classes and the selection of beings as Servants who ordinarily could not be summoned. It was, verily, a strange fake. As an organ of the U.S. government executes its various plots, the Servants are summoned one after another...
| # | Name | ISBN |
| 1 | Fate/strange Fake | |
| 2 | Fate/strange Fake | |
| 3 | Fate/strange Fake | |
| 4 | Fate/strange Fake | |
| 5 | Fate/strange Fake |