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{{Short description|Japanese manga artist}}
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| name          = Yūji Iwahara
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| birth_place   = [[Memanbetsu, Hokkaido]], Japan
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| nationality   = Japanese
| occupation    = [[Manga artist]]
| notable_works = {{ubl|''[[King of Thorn]]''|''[[Dimension W]]''}}
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{{Nihongo|'''Yūji Iwahara'''|岩原 裕二|Iwahara Yūji| born in [[Memanbetsu, Hokkaido]], Japan}} is a Japanese [[manga artist]]. After graduating from art school he joined [[Hudson Soft]] as a graphic artist for video games such as ''[[Bomberman '94|Mega Bomberman]]'' and ''[[Kishin Dōji Zenki FX: Vajra Fight]]''. He made his manga debut in 1994 in ''[[Afternoon (magazine)|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 ''[[Chikyu Misaki]]'', both of which have been licensed in English. He was scheduled to draw ''Quest'', a title in the [[Marvel Comics]] imprint [[Tsunami (Marvel Comics)|Tsunami]], with writer [[Andi Watson]] but the series was cancelled before any issues were completed.<ref name="ann-quest">{{Cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2003-03-12/marvel-tsunami-updates|title=Marvel Tsunami Updates|last=Macdonald|first=Christopher|date=March 12, 2003|website=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=September 11, 2008}}</ref>
His other works include the manga adaptation of the videogame ''[[Koudelka]]''. Another one of his series, ''[[Cat Paradise]]'', which has been serialized in ''Champion RED'' since April 2006, is licensed in English. In 2007, he contributed the original character designs to the [[anime]] television series, ''[[Darker than Black]]''. He is also the artist of ''[[Darker than Black: Shikkoku no Hana]]'', a ''Darker than Black'' spin-off manga started in 2009. A near-future science fiction manga titled ''[[Dimension W]]'' has been released in the ''[[Young Gangan]]'' magazine since September 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-07-14/darker-than-black-iwahara-to-start-dimension-w-manga|title=Darker Than Black 's Iwahara to Dimension W|last=Loo|first=Egan|date=July 14, 2011|website=Anime News Network|access-date=July 14, 2011}}</ref> Dimension W finished in 2019 with the release of its 16th volume. Iwahara's illustration process was featured in the March 2001 issue of ''[[Newtype]]''.<ref name="newtype">{{Cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2001-03-05/english-newtype-online-site-updated|title=English Newtype Online Site Updated!|date=March 5, 2001|website=Anime News Network|access-date=September 11, 2008}}</ref>
== Works ==
* ''[[Koudelka]]'' (1999)
* ''Ookami no Dou'' (2001)
* ''[[Chikyu Misaki]]'' (2001)
* ''[[King of Thorn]]'' (2002–2005)
* ''Wreckage X'' (2004)
* ''[[Cat Paradise]]'' (2006–2008)
* ''[[Darker than Black: Shikkoku no Hana]]'' (2009–2011)
* ''[[Dimension W]]'' (2011–2019)
* ''[[Clevatess]]'' (2020–ongoing)
== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071007035543/http://www.kanshin.jp/comic-beam/?mode=keyword&id=401260 Yūji Iwahara] at ''Comic Beam'' {{In lang|ja}}
* {{Anime News Network|person|23737}}
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