was a Japanese

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screenwriter and the creator of the

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of "Cosmic Era" the

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for the anime ''

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'' (in which she was the head writer) and its related series. Born in

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, Kantou Region, Japan.

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Kazuyuki Morosawa was a Japanese anime screenwriter and the creator of the fictional universe of "Cosmic Era" the setting for the anime '' Mobile Suit Gundam SEED'' (in which she was the head writer) and its related series. Born in Urawa, Saitama, Saitama City, S ...

. She was the wife of

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, and the mother of their children.

Family

She was the older sister of , who is the film director and a screenwriter for the '' Dear Friends'' and the movie '' Baby, Baby, Baby!''. He is also the screenwriter for the ''

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'' anime movie in the year of 2003.

Life

She first met Mitsuo Fukuda during their school days when she was an amateur doujin artist and writer. They enrolled in different high school, but participated in the doujin

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community, and remained friends after their graduation.Gamest World series Vol.19, 1999 : "新世紀GPXサイバーフォーミュラ OVAシリーズコンプリートファイル(Future GPX Cyber Formula OVA series Complete file)"
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with her

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(保育科)

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she would later become an office worker, while he joined

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in 1979, at the age of 19. They eventually married in 2006, and she retired from scriptwriting to become a

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. As of April 2008, she had two children with him.

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April 2008

Career

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'' and '' Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Stargazer''. In the year of 2002, after the end of ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED'' production, her medical diagnosis revealed the presence of

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and

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. Although she managed to complete the outline for the plot for ''Gundam Seed Destiny'', the requirement of continuous treatment for her illness led to her handing over the actual writing duties to other staff members at Sunrise, and resultantly the indefinite postponement of the '' Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Movie''. In 2014, she scripted a series of drama CD's featuring ''Mobile Suit Gundam SEED'' characters for the "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny HD

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Death

She died on 19 February 2016, at the age of 56, from

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References

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