in joint authorship with Tsubaki Himana, began publishing. Both No Game, No Life and Clockwork Planet have been adapted to manga with Kamiya writing and Mashiro Hiiragi illustrating. According to Kamiya, this is his "de facto return" to the manga business. Personal life When discussing the origin of his pen name, he said he liked the sound of "Kamiya" and wanted 神谷 (Kamiya) to be his surname, however Kamiya said that he was afraid to call himself using these kanji so he split the name into two parts, "Ka" and "miya." He then converted each portion with his eyes closed for a few seconds before landing on "榎" (Ka) and "宮" (miya) respectively. As for "Yū" (祐), Kamiya believes he took it from the name of the main protagonist of Kanon, Yuichi Aizawa, which he was passionate about at the time. His style of illustration is often called Kamiya-nuri (榎宮塗り, lit. Kamiya-coating), which describes the vivid rainbow-coloring his illustrations usually have. Kamiya initially worked as an illustrator, but later focused on being a mangaka. When his first light novel illustration job, Iregyrāzu Paradaizu, was terminated for undisclosed reasons, he wanted to try his hand at manga where he alone was responsible for everything. For this reason, Kamiya rarely takes many illustration jobs for light novels and is also why he has turned down manga adaptation job offers. He is a fan of the Touhou Project series of games, many illustrations present on his official website of characters like Suwako Moriya and Flandre Scarlet. In May 2011, Kamiya was diagnosed with stomach cancer. He was discharged from the hospital in August and is still undergoing treatment for cancer prevention. After the diagnosis, he decided to focus on writing light novels due to it being more compatible with treatment. In August 2011, Kamiya married his manga assistant, Mashiro Hiiragi. On May 7, 2015, it was reported that he and Mashiro Hiiragi had a child together. Works References External links 1984 births Living people Light novelists Anime character designers Brazilian people of Portuguese descent Brazilian people of Italian descent Brazilian people of Japanese descent Brazilian expatriates in Japan People from Uberaba VTubers Writers who illustrated their own writing