This is the personal homepage of Tomohiro Nakano. It provides information about his various projects, including linguistic research, film production, painting and crafts, music, and the creation of constructed worlds.
He is also seeking support on the platform Patreon. Your contributions would be greatly appreciated.
Research
Nakano is studying Celtic historical linguistics at the University of Tokyo Graduate School.
A constructed world is a fictional world with a highly elaborate setting. Since around 2009, Nakano has been creating the artificial world Firraksnarre along with fantasy and science fiction works set within it. In 2018, he directed the feature-length student film Between the Worlds, which was also featured in the media.
An artificial language is a language created at a specific time by a particular individual or group. Within the artificial world of Firraksnarre, Nakano has designed several such languages, including Varokerim, Artijihak, and Otba’aran.
He also works professionally as a conlanger, having created the ‘Üüpanaṅthian Common Tongue for the Disney+ exclusive drama Dragons of Wonderhatch.
Nakano also composes music, primarily for orchestra. He scored his own film Between the Worlds and two other projects, and wrote both lyrics and music for director Yūki Adachi’s musical film When the Pages Turn. In addition, he is developing a series of pop songs written in constructed languages, titled Con-Pop.
His creative work extends further to pen drawings, colored pencil, acrylic, and oil paintings, as well as woodworking (such as magic wands), UV resin art, and 3D-printed figures.
University of Tokyo — “Can’t Live Without Creating”: The University of Tokyo Imaginative Project, Vol. 2 — Part I: Artificial World Creator Tomohiro Nakano (Part I, Part II, and Imaginative Project edition) (September 13, 2022)
Crowdfunding (completed) — Motion Gallery: “Expanding the Scale of the Independent Film Between the Worlds, A Sci-Fi Fantasy Set in a Meticulously Designed Artificial World”: https://motion-gallery.net/projects/sekai_no_aida
Personal Twitter: @TormisNarno_JPN (Japanese), @TormisNarno (English)
Official Twitter for Films Between the Worlds and Fragments of Hope: @sekai_no_aida
