🎬 writer

Hiro Arikawa有川浩

Original Story and Original Creator on Library War and Library War: The Wings of Revolution.

anime credits: 2; anime credits
most credited as: Original Story; most credited as
award: 1; award
busiest year (1): 2008; busiest year (1)

Best-known work

Credits per year

Anime Hiro Arikawa worked on, by premiere year

012

1 in 2008

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Item	Credits
08	1 in 2008
09	0 in 2009
10	0 in 2010
11	0 in 2011
12	1 in 2012

All credits

2012Library War: The Wings of RevolutionOriginal Creator
2008Library WarOriginal Story

Profile

Birthday: June 9, 1972
Age: 54
Born in: Kōchi-shi
Gender: Female

Awards & links

🏆 Seiun Award for Best Japanese Novel

From Wikidata.

About

Hiro Arikawa won the tenth annual Dengeki Novel Prize for new writers for Shio no Machi: Wish on My Precious in 2003, and the book was published the following year. It was praised for its love story between a heroine and hero divided by age and social status, and for its depiction of military structures. Although she is a light novelist, her books from her second work onwards have been published as hardbacks alongside more literary works with Arikawa receiving special treatment in this respect from her publisher, MediaWorks. Shio no Machi was also later published in hardback. Her 2006 light novel Toshokan Sensō (The Library War) was named as Hon no Zasshi's number one for entertainment for the first half of 2006, and came fifth in the Honya Taishō for that year, competing against ordinary novels. She often writes about the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) and her first three novels concerning its three branches are known as the Jieitai Sanbusaku (The SDF Trilogy); she also wrote about the fictional Library Forces in the Toshokan Sensō series. Raintree no Kuni, which first appeared as a book within a book in Toshokan Nairan was later published by Arikawa as a spin-off with another publisher. (Source: MangaUpdates)

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Frequently asked questions

What anime has Hiro Arikawa worked on?

Hiro Arikawa's best-known work includes Library War (Original Story), Library War: The Wings of Revolution (Original Creator).

What does Hiro Arikawa do?

Hiro Arikawa is credited most often as original story, original creator on anime.

When was Hiro Arikawa born?

Hiro Arikawa was born on June 9, 1972 in Kōchi-shi.

What awards has Hiro Arikawa won?

Seiun Award for Best Japanese Novel.