Reki kawahara biography channel

Kawahara Reki (川原礫) (male), also known as Kunori Fumio (九里 史生), is a Japanese novelist who was born in August 17, 1974, and is the primary author and supervisor of the Sword Art Online franchise and more.

His official website states: "WordGear: an experimental world generated by fumio kunori , since 2002".

Early Life

He was born in 1974 in Gunma Prefecture. He has two younger sister siblings. Participated in the Manga Studies Club in college, where he drew manga and illustrations, and played fighting games with the club members at the arcade often.
In 1998, he started playing Ultima Online which would be the first of many online games in his future.

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He also played Ragnarok Online, and Reki mentioned at different times the game he played the most was either that or World of Warcraft. Also played Phantasy Star Online. Tried to draw manga, but felt it too tedious a process to get his ideas down on paper, and enjoyed coming up