Japan ChannelApril 26, 2011Light Novel MM! Author Akinari Matsuno Passed Away8by YoU 391 days ago According to the news from Media Factory (メディアファクトリー) today (April 26, JP), the light novel author of MM! (えむえむっ！) Akinari Matsuno (松野秋鳴) passed away on April 18, 2011 (32 years old). There’s no official word about the cause of death. The light novel MM! is currently on its 12th volume, and guess it would end without ending. We have already suffered from the pain of Takahiro Yamato (山門敬弘), the author of light novel Kaze no Stigma (風の聖痕), who passed away on July 20 2009 leaving the series ended at the 6th volume. It’s a lost to the whole world and, of course, to the fans of the author and the series.