It all starts when a high schooler who prefers to avoid having friends because they'd lower his "intensity as a human" meets a blond vampire and becomes her thrall. The basis of an international cult-hit animated series, these case files of mysterious maladies that are supernatural in origin but deeply revealing of the human psyche are always disarmingly candid, often hilariously playful, and sometimes devastatingly moving.
Palindromic NISIOISIN made his debut as a novelist when he was twenty. A famously prolific author, he is known to publish more than a book per month at times. With his inexorable rise, he has become the leading light of a younger generation of writers who began their careers in the twenty-first century.
Titles by him published in translation so far include Decapitation: The Blue Savant and the Nonsense User (formerly known as Zaregoto) and a manga adaptation of his novel Imperfect Girl (from our Vertical Comics imprint). The MONOGATARI series, widely considered his masterpiece to date, is becoming available in English for the first time.