Noboru Yamaguchi (ヤマグチ ノボル, Yamaguchi Noboru, February 11, 1972 – April 4, 2013[1]) was a Japanese light novel and game scenario author from Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.
He graduated in Department of Political Science Division II, School of Political Science and Economics, Meiji University.
In July 2011, he revealed on Media Factory's website that he had advanced stage cancer that was discovered in February of that year and which was untreatable at the time,[2] which affected his work on the final two volumes of Zero no Tsukaima.
[4][5] He was later readmitted to the hospital in December 2011,[6] and had another surgery in November 2012.
His death was publicly announced on April 11 by his family and publishers.