Madoka Takadono
Description
Madoka Takadono is a Japanese light novelist, manga writer, and anime screenwriter born on April 1, 1976 in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. She began her professional writing career after receiving an honorable mention in the fourth Kadokawa Gakuen Novel Prize in the year 2000.
Takadono is the creator of the mixed-media project Flaglia, which serves as a notable example of her original work. This project, announced in October 2022, uniquely connects a stage musical with an anime television series. Takadono is credited as the original creator for the entire project and personally wrote the scripts for both the musical, titled Flaglia The Musical: Yukite Kaerishi Monogatari, and the six-episode anime series, Flaglia: Natsuyasumi no Monogatari, which aired in January 2023. The musical is set in a historical period resembling the Middle Ages, while the anime takes place in the present day.
Beyond Flaglia, Takadono has an extensive portfolio of original light novel and manga series. Her major works include the light novel series Gun Princess, which was published under Media Factory's MF Bunko J imprint from April 2004 to December 2009. She also wrote the manga adaptation, Gun Princess: Sincerely Night, which was serialized in Kodansha's Monthly Shōnen Sirius magazine. She is also known for the manga series Devils and Realist, which ran from 2009 to 2014.
Takadono's other notable titles include the Expeditioner King series, the novel Princess Heart, and the Carii series, which is set in a Victorian-era India. From 2006, she was a contributing author to the shared Polyphonica universe, specifically writing the White series of light novels.
Her work frequently appears across multiple media formats. The Gun Princess light novel series was adapted into a manga written by Takadono herself. Similarly, her original manga Devils and Realist was adapted into an anime television series that aired in the summer of 2013. The Flaglia project continues this pattern, with Takadono serving as the sole writer for both the stage production and the television anime.
As an original creator, Takadono is typically involved in the conception of a world and its characters, often providing the foundational story that is then adapted into anime or other media. For the Flaglia anime, she was responsible for series composition, a role that involves structuring the narrative across the entire season. Her body of work spans over two decades and includes original creations for various publishing imprints and production studios, demonstrating a sustained career as a writer of commercial fiction for the Japanese market.
Takadono is the creator of the mixed-media project Flaglia, which serves as a notable example of her original work. This project, announced in October 2022, uniquely connects a stage musical with an anime television series. Takadono is credited as the original creator for the entire project and personally wrote the scripts for both the musical, titled Flaglia The Musical: Yukite Kaerishi Monogatari, and the six-episode anime series, Flaglia: Natsuyasumi no Monogatari, which aired in January 2023. The musical is set in a historical period resembling the Middle Ages, while the anime takes place in the present day.
Beyond Flaglia, Takadono has an extensive portfolio of original light novel and manga series. Her major works include the light novel series Gun Princess, which was published under Media Factory's MF Bunko J imprint from April 2004 to December 2009. She also wrote the manga adaptation, Gun Princess: Sincerely Night, which was serialized in Kodansha's Monthly Shōnen Sirius magazine. She is also known for the manga series Devils and Realist, which ran from 2009 to 2014.
Takadono's other notable titles include the Expeditioner King series, the novel Princess Heart, and the Carii series, which is set in a Victorian-era India. From 2006, she was a contributing author to the shared Polyphonica universe, specifically writing the White series of light novels.
Her work frequently appears across multiple media formats. The Gun Princess light novel series was adapted into a manga written by Takadono herself. Similarly, her original manga Devils and Realist was adapted into an anime television series that aired in the summer of 2013. The Flaglia project continues this pattern, with Takadono serving as the sole writer for both the stage production and the television anime.
As an original creator, Takadono is typically involved in the conception of a world and its characters, often providing the foundational story that is then adapted into anime or other media. For the Flaglia anime, she was responsible for series composition, a role that involves structuring the narrative across the entire season. Her body of work spans over two decades and includes original creations for various publishing imprints and production studios, demonstrating a sustained career as a writer of commercial fiction for the Japanese market.
Works
- Topics: Anime overview
- Topics: Anime overview