Takashi Kurihara

Takashi Kurihara is a Japanese manga artist, illustrator and animator born in Tokyo in 1977. He made his manga debut in 1999 with Anahoru-hitobito, which won the Afternoon Shiki Grand Prize, and graduated from Tama Art University's Graphic Design Department in 2001. His work includes the manga book Tsuno-byo (2004) and ROBOTTING, an animation made with Kunio Kato. He also contributed movie and 3D character design to the video game Katamari Damacy.