She has written dozens of children’s novels and period pieces since then, and is still an active novelist. While she never became a comic artist, she published her first novel, Hotarukan Monogatari, in 1991 at age 37 after working as an elementary school teacher, getting married, and staying home to raise her children.

As a young adult she wanted to tell stories through drawing comics, and she graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo with a Bachelor of Letters degree. When she was young, she enjoyed reading Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes, and Ellery Queen, and, inspired by those authors, started to create stories of her own. No.Japanese novelist Asano Atsuko was born in 1954 in Japan’s Okayama Prefecture.An english version of No.6 is to debut on DVD with Japanese subtitles and English Dub on August 21, 2012. The anime's opening theme is 'Spell' by Lama and the ending theme is 'Rokutōsei no Yoru' (六等星の夜) by Aimer. Kodansha began publishing bunkobon versions of the novels on Octoas of August 12, 2009, five bunkobon volumes have been released.Ī manga adaptation drawn by Hinoki Kino began serialization in the March 2011 issue of Kodansha's shōjo manga magazine Aria.Īn anime TV series adaptation produced by Bones and directed by Kenji Nagasaki will begin airing in Japan on Fuji TV's noitaminA programming block on July 8, 2011. Nine tankōbon volumes were published by Kodansha between Octoand June 14, 2011. 6 began as a novel series written by Atsuko Asano. Karan (Rico's sister) ( カラン ) Voiced by: Megumi Nakajima Safu's Grandmother ( 沙布の祖母 ) Voiced by: Miyoko Shouji Shion begins to find out the hidden truth behind the Ideal City No.6. Whilst Shion is being transported to the Correctional Institute, Nezumi appears and rescues him. Shion's co-worker is one of the victims and Shion is arrested on suspicion of murder. Four years later, Shion experiences a spate of incidents around him in which a deadly infection by parasitic wasps leaves its victims to age rapidly.

After spending a rainy night with his new friend, Shion discovers the next morning that Nezumi has left and disappeared without a trace. Shion, a boy raised in the elite and privileged environment of his home, gives shelter to another boy, who only gives his name as 'Nezumi', during the former's 12th birthday. The story takes place in an ideal city known as 'No.

No 6 by atsuko asano