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is a Japanese
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. After graduating from art school, he joined
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as a graphic artist for video games such as '' Mega Bomberman'' and '' Kishin Dōji Zenki FX: Vajra Fight''. He made his manga debut in 1994 in ''
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'' 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
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, with writer Andi Watson but the series was cancelled before any issues were completed. His other works include the manga adaptation of the videogame ''
Koudelka is a role-playing video game developed by Sacnoth for the PlayStation. The game was published by SNK in Japan in 1999, and by Infogrames internationally in 2000. Set in the haunted Nemeton Monastery in Wales, the plot follows protagonists K ...
''. 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
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television series, ''
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''. 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 ''
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'' magazine since September 2011. Dimension W finished in 2019 with the release of its 16th volume. Iwahara's illustration process was featured in the March 2001 issue of ''
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''.


Works

* ''
Koudelka is a role-playing video game developed by Sacnoth for the PlayStation. The game was published by SNK in Japan in 1999, and by Infogrames internationally in 2000. Set in the haunted Nemeton Monastery in Wales, the plot follows protagonists K ...
'' (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 is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yūji Iwahara. It began serialization on Line Digital Frontier's Line Manga service in August 2020 and is also serialized on Media Factory's '' Comic Alive+'' website since April 2024. A ...
'' (2020–ongoing)


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Yūji Iwahara
at ''Comic Beam'' * {{DEFAULTSORT:Iwahara, Yuji Living people Manga artists from Hokkaido Year of birth missing (living people)