Kafka Asagiri

Kafka Asagiri (朝霧 カフカ,) is a, scenario writer, light novelist and creator of the Bungo Stray Dogs series.

Biography
Asagiri was born on March 17, 1984 in, Japan. Before working on the Bungo Stray Dogs series, he originally worked as a salaryman in an automobile company. During this second and third year, he thought he could become a scenario writer. Still, his job was demanding, and it did not let him both work and write stories, so Asagiri quit in early 2012 to pursue a career in scenario writing.

After leaving the job, he decided to create things while he continued looking for a scenario-writing job; during this time, he created a Niconico channel and videos. He would create a video series titled "Yukkuri Yōmu and the Really Scary Cthulhu Mythos" featuring Touhou series character Yōmu Konpaku in Yukkuri form explaining the Cthulhu mythos which quickly got popular. Soon this series would be given a novelization titled "".

Four months after uploading the video series, he was approached by the editor-in-chief of Monthly Shōnen Ace to come up with three projects in a span of two weeks and later on also approached by the Young Ace editorial department. Soon he would come up with the idea of Bungo Stray Dogs based on the idea of having late authors drawn as young adults and teenagers with special abilities.

Influences
Asagiri has stated that he was influenced by the manga series  when creating the Bungo Stray Dogs series. He also has said that he was a fan of RPG games such as ' and was also addicted to making games using the ' software where he was constantly making stories in these games. He reminisces that it may have been at that time that the switch to storytelling was turned on. He comments that he is not particularly bothered by the media used to tell stories but, he wants to make sure that the stories he crafts fit into the medium itself.

Trivia

 * Asagiri's blood type is AB.
 * Kafka Asagiri's pseudonym is derived from, a Czech writer considered to be one of the pillars of 20th Century literature.