Kazushi Hagiwara Explained

Name Nonen:萩原一至
Birth Date:April 4, 1963
Birth Place:Nakano, Tokyo, Japan
Area:Manga artist
Notable Works:Bastard!!
Nonus:ja

is a Japanese manga artist best known for creating the manga Bastard!!.

Biography

He originally began as an assistant to hentai manga artist Dirty Matsumoto, and then as an assistant to manga artist Izumi Matsumoto in the production of Kimagure Orange Road,[1] creating his own stories in his spare time. He debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump with two short stories, Binetsu Rouge (in 1987) and Virgin Tyrant (in 1988). He has also supervised, co-written and illustrated three Bastard!! related novels for the Jump! J Books imprint.

His group of assistants are called Studio Loud In School. They regularly publish a best-selling dōjinshi, Wonderful Megadeth, as well as various dōjinshi featuring popular fighting games such as Dead or Alive, Virtua Fighter and various Capcom games. In 2012, he designed the armor for two jobs (Geomancer and Rune Fencer) in the 2013 Final Fantasy XI expansion, Seekers of Adoulin.[2]

Hagiwara is a high school drop-out, however he is a graduate from Tokyo Designer Gakuin College.

Works

TitleYearNotesRefs
Bastard!! Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy1988 - presentSerialized in Weekly Shonen Jump, later irregularly in Ultra Jump
Published by Shueisha in 27 volumes
Combustible Campus Guardress1994Character design, original video animation
Final Fantasy XI - Seekers of Adoulin2013Character design, video game expansion pack
Endride2016Character design, TV anime

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Notes and References

  1. News: House of 1000 Manga  - Kimagure Orange Road . Anime News Network . September 11, 2014 . February 22, 2017 . Thompson . Jason . Jason Thompson (writer) . https://web.archive.org/web/20140912070537/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/house-of-1000-manga/2014-09-11/kimagure-orange-road/.78669 . 2014-09-12 . dead.
  2. Web site: Final Fantasy XI Seekers of Adoulin Info Page. 2013-01-31.