Izumi Matsumoto

Mangaka, Visual Artist

1958 –

45

Who is Izumi Matsumoto?

Kazuya Terashima, pen name Izumi Matsumoto, is 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 Shonen Jump. But real success came in 1984, publishing in the same magazine his masterpiece Kimagure Orange Road. Other works: Sesame Street, Black Moon.

He has revealed that he is afflicted with a cerebrospinal fluid disease that has forced him to take six years off work, and he now hopes to bring attention to this disorder through his manga.

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Born
Oct 13, 1958
Toyama Prefecture
Nationality
  • Japan
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Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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