Person: Iwahara Yuuji

Iwahara Yuuji (born in Memanbetsu, Hokkaido, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist. After graduating from art school he joined Hudson Soft as a graphic arts. He made his manga debut in 1994 in Afternoon with a story for which he won the fall Afternoon Four Seasons Award, a prize he received three more times over the next two years. He is best known in the West for his work on King of Thorn and Misaki Chikyu, both of which have been licensed in English. He also drew the art for Quest, a short-lived title in the Marvel Comics imprint Tsunami.

His other works include the manga adaptation of the videogame Koudelka. He recently authored Gakuen Sousei: Nekoten!, which has been serialised in Champion RED since April 2006. In 2007, he contributed the original character designs to the anime television series, Darker than Black: Kuro no Keiyakusha.