Makoto Sanda

Makoto Sanda (三田 誠, Sanda Makoto?) is an author who collaborated with TYPE-MOON to write Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files, and the sequel series, The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II.

History

History with TYPE-MOON

In 2008, Sanda was with Ryohgo Narita on the night that Narita created the original Fate/strange Fake April Fool's joke.[1] He wrote the manual for the "Fake/states night" (as it was known at the time) April Fool's roleplaying game.[2]

Sanda was first approached by Kinoko Nasu shortly after Fate/Zero ended to write Type-Moon's next light novel as part of the newly created TYPE-MOON BOOKS, believing Sanda was the only one up to the task of writing a mystery novel in the World of Magecraft. However as Sanda was busy with the anime adaptation of his Rental MagicaWP series at the time, he had to turn Nasu down.[3][4][2] A few years later in 2012, at Type-Moon's 10th anniversary celebration, a poll was held for fans' favorite scenes in Fate/Zero, which reminded Sanda how much he loved the relationship between Waver Velvet and Iskandar, and made him want to write about them.[3][2] He told his friend, Ryohgo Narita, about this, and three days later, Narita told Nasu to call him.[5][2] When Sanda asked if anyone had plans to write a story about Lord El-Melloi II, he was only told no and if he planned to.[3] Case Files would begin production four years after the initial meeting.[4]

TYPE-MOON Works

Personal Works

Light Novels

  • Rental MagicaWP (2004-2013)
  • Scare / Edge (2004)
  • Agartha Fiesta! (2004-2007)
  • Iscariot (2008)
  • Cross x Regalia (2012-2014)
  • Red Dragon (2012)
  • Soushin to Soushin no Magius (2016)
  • Shousetsu Mahoutsukai no Yome (2017)
  • Lying Witch Murders (2023-)

Manga

  • Bestia (2018-2020)
  • Yosuga Scenario Parade (2018-2019)

External Links

References

  1. ↑
    [v] Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files {Rail Zeppelin} Grace note - Blu-ray interview with Makoto Sanda, p.005-006
    Q: Rewinding the topic a bit, are there any hardships specific to having characters from different titles within the TYPE-MOON world hop the fence and appear in this one? How do you balance consistency with the settings within the different titles and how the characters are drawn out?

    —Rewinding the topic a bit, are there any hardships specific to having characters from different titles within the TYPE-MOON world hop the fence and appear in this one? How do you balance consistency with the settings within the different titles and how the characters are drawn out?

    Makoto Sanda: In that aspect, Reines was the most difficult to work with. At the point where she made her appearance in Fate/Apocrypha, it was already decided that Case Files would be a thing. (Yuichiro) Higashide consulted with me, "Is it okay for Reines to be something like this?" So quite a bit of the part at the beginning of the second volume of the original novels where Reines is the narrator had been written out during the initial planning phase. I had wanted to solidify how Reines shapes up as a character to myself.

    —The writers all have such solid coordination with one another.

    Makoto Sanda: But Caules was more like an afterthought. When Fate/Apocrypha was completed, it was like, "Mr. Sanda, this guy is gonna head off to the El-Melloi Class", where Mr. Higashide naturally shoved him my way. (laughs) As far as the position the character served, that made things interesting, so I went along with it as well. Flat is similar but in contrast to that. Flat originally was a character that was born from an April Fools fanfiction piece by Ryogo Narita in 2008 (Fake/states night). Actually, I was keeping him company as he pulled an all-nighter writing it... That story aside (laughs), in other words Flat is the very first character created as El-Melloi II's student. Which means, he becomes the standard for every other student.

    —Indeed.

    Makoto Sanda: Of course, it's obvious if you have taken a look at the series, but while Flat eclipses others as a student within the class, I had to make sure that the class environment was such that it's not strange for him to be there. That was when I created Svin. Flat being the only genius wouldn't let him settle down as a character, nor is it really interesting as a group. Therefore, I needed to create a strange character that had just as much talent as Flat. And, since Flat is basically a trickster, I need a character that could stop him. That is why Svin is a character that is basically in charge of the rebuttals, but on occasion will go off the deep end just as much as Flat does.

    。

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 TYPE-MOON Ace Volume 17 - Makoto Sanda and Ryohgo Narita interview - Translated by Comun
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Volume 1: case. Adra Castle Separation - Afterword
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Volume 10: case. Grand Roll (Lower) - Afterword: Explanation by Kinoko Nasu
  5. ↑ Interview with Sanda and Urobuchi about Lord El-Melloi IIFlag of Japan