[2] Mayumura was also a young adult fiction writer whose works have been adapted into TV drama, film, and anime.
[1] Mayumura's first book, the science fiction novel Moeru Keisha (燃える傾斜), was published by Tōto Shobo in the same year.
In 1976, his book Psychic School Wars was released, and was later adapted into both live action and anime versions.
[4] In 1979, he won the seventh Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature and the Seiun Award for his novel Shōmetsu no Kōrin,[3] which is the representative work in his "Shiseikan series".
His story Toraerareta School Bus inspired the 1986 anime film Toki no Tabibito - Time Stranger.
Mayumura had been writing a very short story every day for his wife, who was in the hospital bedridden since the cancer had been diagnosed.
In 2012, an anime film adaptation was being created of his science fiction children's novel Nerawareta Gakuen, which is a set in a prep school.
[7] Consistent with this theme, his novels frequently tackle the issues of problematic relations between individuals and the corporate or bureaucratic organizations to which they belong.
[10] His family stated he had been dealing with cancer for several years, and had been hospitalized on October 8, continuing to write in his bed until his death.