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Behind the anime
Original Creator
Kazuya Terashima , known by his pen name Izumi Matsumoto , was a Japanese manga artist best known for Kimagure Orange Road.
Our catalog credits Izumi Matsumoto, a mangaka, on ten titles. Their listed hometown is Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, Japan. Born October 13, 1958.
Production credits include original creator (5), story & art (4), and art.
Our catalog lists ten credits, including Kimagure Orange Road: Summer's Beginning, Kimagure Orange Road: I Want to Return to That Day, and Kimagure Orange Road OVA.
Their hometown is listed as Takaoka, Toyama Prefecture, Japan.
The person behind the work
Kazuya Terashima (Japanese: 寺嶋 一弥, Hepburn: Terashima Kazuya; 13 October 1958 – 6 October 2020), known by his pen name Izumi Matsumoto (まつもと 泉, Matsumoto Izumi), was a Japanese manga artist best known for Kimagure Orange Road. His career started in 1982, publishing his comic Milk Report in the manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump. But real success came in 1984, publishing Kimagure Orange Road in the same magazine.
In 2005, he revealed that he was afflicted with a cerebrospinal fluid disease (possibly stemming from a car accident when he was three years old) that had forced him to take six years off work, and he hoped to bring attention to this disorder through a new manga. On 3 November 2019, Matsumoto revealed that he had been diagnosed with spinal stenosis. Matsumoto died at 61 on October 6, 2020.
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10 titles listed
