He won the Prize, First rank, in the 5th Hayakawa SF Contest with the story "Hana Kariudo" (花狩人, The Flower Hunter), which he wrote while he was a student in the University. Noah made a debut with this story in the SF-Magazine in the same year.[3][1][2]
He is a Japanese SF writer of the 4th generation. There are other 4th generation SF writers such as Chōhei Kambayashi and Mariko Ōhara, Noah debuted contemporarily with them.
Noah's style of stories are highly aesthetic, splendid and stylish. Noah was thought as a female by many people at first, due to his visionary style and the pen name "Adusa". Adusa (梓) is usually female name.[3][4]
He is familiar with shōjo manga, especially the works by the Year 24 Group. Also his works are characterized by the aesthetic style and have inclination to shōnen-ai situations and world. Thus, aesthetic Yaoi writer Shikiko Yamaai (JA) is his friend. Under the influence of Yamaai and other Yaoi writers, Noah began criticisms of Yaoi and writing Yaoi stories in 1992[1][2] Some of his works are fantastic, aesthetic Yaoi novel with sci-fi, occult elements.
Style of works
Noah's style is highly aesthetic and splendid with visual depiction. Fantastic and Visionary. His world of fictions ranges from the terrorist fighting with the Galactic Empire, speculative visions of far future Galaxy, and shōnen-ai situations in this stage, Golden Dawn Magics[5] and quantum, psychonic computer, celestial chasing drama of angel and cosmic stranger, occult fantasy, the secret of William Shakespeare and his work Hamlet,[6] to the speculative and sci-fi Yaoi world. Noah is the novelist of refined style, shining pedantry and metafictional fantasy.[3]
Some profiles
The pseudonym "Adusa Noah" came from "Noah's Ark". It is a word game. In AIUEO order of Japanese Kana letters, 1st letter is あ (A), 18th letter is つ (Tsu), 11th letter is さ (Sa). In alphabetic order, 1st letter is "A", 18th letter is "R", and 11th letter is "K", thus ARK is correspondent to "ATsuSa" (あつさ). In classic Japanese, voiced letter such as "du" is written as "tsu".
Some of Noah's works have subtitle. These subtitles are parody of the titles of the James Joyce's novels.[7]
Works
Novels
Titles with plus symbol (+) are hard-bound book. Titles with asterisk (*) are Bunko-bon.[2][8]
^The name "Adusa" is not limited to female, but tends to be considered as a female. SF and Fantasy novelist Kaoru Kurimoto used the pen name Aduza Nakajima when she wrote critiques or essays.
^Noah is a friend of Ben Akiba (秋端勉, Akiba Ben), who is known as a contemporary researcher and an adept of the modern Golden Dawn magic.
^"William Shakespeare and his work Hamlet" are major metafictional elements of the novel Kyō Tenshi (The Sinister Angel). The chasing drama takes place in the heaven and the Earth, in the present and the past, in the real world and the imaginary world. The runaway hid in the world of Hamlet. Historical William Shakespeare and fictional Hamlet appear along with the characters of Noah's story.
^For instance, "Seraphim Hero" (subtitle of Kyō Tenshi, The Sinister Angel) is a parody of Stephen Hero. "A Portrait of the Terrorist as a Young Man" (subtitle of Busō Ongakusai, Armed Concert) is a parody of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. "Luciens Wake" (subtitle of Ginga Sekidō-sai) is a parody of Finnegans Wake.
