Hiroshi Motomiya (, born June 25, 1947) is a Japanese

manga artist A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist be ...

. He is from

Chiba Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Chiba Prefecture has a population of 6,278,060 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Chiba Prefecture borders Ibaraki Prefecture to the north, Saitama Prefecture to the ...

Moto Kikaku

''Moto Kikaku'' (formerly ''Motomiya Kikaku'') is a group of Japanese

s, founded by Hiroshi Motomiya. They're best known in the West for the ''

Strider Hiryu is a fictional character jointly owned by Capcom and Moto Kikaku. Although primarily known as a game character, Hiryu (''飛竜'', "Flying Dragon") debuted in 1988 as the protagonist of a Japan-exclusive manga titled ''Strider Hiryu,'' publishe ...

'' manga (published by

Kadokawa Shoten , formerly , is a Japanese publisher and division of Kadokawa Future Publishing based in Tokyo, Japan. It became an internal division of Kadokawa Corporation on October 1, 2013. Kadokawa publishes manga, light novels, manga anthology magazines su ...

), which was developed as a tie-in to

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's video game hit '' Strider''. The group had input in '' Strider 2'''s character designs, and the original manga's plot was adapted as the plot of the NES version. However, ''Strider'' was not the only Moto Kikaku property to be adapted. Capcom based four games on Motomiya's '' Tenchi wo Kurau'' series: ''

Destiny of an Emperor ''Destiny of an Emperor'', known in Japan as , is a strategy role-playing game by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System based on the ''Tenchi wo Kurau'' manga by Hiroshi Motomiya. It was originally released in Japan in 1989, with an Englis ...

'' and '' Destiny of an Emperor II'' for the

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, and ''

Dynasty Wars ''Dynasty Wars,'' released in Japan as , is a 1989 side-scrolling beat-'em-up game released for arcades by Capcom, based on the Japanese manga '' Tenchi wo Kurau'' and a reenactment of the battle between the Kingdom of Shu and the Yellow Tur ...

'' and ''

Warriors of Fate ''Warriors of Fate'', known in Japan as , is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up game produced by Capcom. It is the second arcade game based on the '' Tenchi wo Kurau'' manga, following ''Dynasty Wars''. Originally released to arcades in 1992, home ve ...

'' for the

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. Moto Kikaku is credited whenever Strider Hiryu appears in a game. On the staff roll for the

PC-Engine The TurboGrafx-16, known as the outside North America, is a home video game console designed by Hudson Soft and sold by NEC Home Electronics. It was the first console marketed in the fourth generation, commonly known as the 16-bit era, though ...

port of ''Warriors of Fate'', they share a "Special Thanks" credit on the same line with Hiroshi Motomiya.

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Moto Kikaku

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