Daisuke Ashihara, born February 13, 1981, is a Japanese manga artist known for creating the Manga series of World Trigger. According to the Volume 8 credits of World Trigger, he is a Hardworking B-rank with glasses (from the flowchart in Volume 7).
Daisuke Ashihara (葦原 大介, Ashihara Daisuke ?), born February 13, 1981, is a Japanese manga artist known for creating the Manga series of World Trigger. According to the Volume 8 credits of World Trigger, he is a Hardworking B-rank with glasses (from the flowchart in Volume 7).
Biography
[edit | edit source]Ashihara was born in Tokyo, but was raised in the Okayama Prefecture of Japan. Ashihara would make his first work when he was 27, It would specifically be the one-shot, Room 303 which released on July 14th, 2008. Room 303 would win second place in the 75th Tezuka Awards. His second work would be the one-shot for Super Dog Rilienthal (which would later become serialized), the one-shot would release on November 17th, 2008 while the serialization would start on September 14h, 2009, then end on May 10th, 2010. His third one-shot would be Trigger Keeper which released in 2 parts, part 1 released on January 19th, 2009, while part 2 released on January 26th, 2009. His fourth, and final one-shot would be Talented Elite Jin which released on October 8th, 2011. Ashihara's current work, and second serialized work is World Trigger which started on February 9th, 2013.
World Trigger would take frequent hiatuses due to sudden illness including cervical spondylosis (wear and tear on the neck area of the spine)[1]
Works
[edit | edit source]Oneshots
[edit | edit source]| Title | Issue | Pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthology | Issue Number and Year | ||
| Room 303 (ルームサンマルサン, Rūmu Sanmarusan?) |
Weekly Shōnen Jump | 33, 2008 July 14, 2008 |
31 |
| Super Dog Rilienthal (賢い犬リリエンタール, Kashikoi ken Ririentāru?) |
Weekly Shōnen Jump | 51, 2008 November 17, 2008 |
49 |
| Trigger Keeper (トリガーキーパー, Torigā kīpā?) |
Weekly Shōnen Jump | 8, 2009 January 19, 2009 9, 2009 January 26, 2009 |
21 23 |
| Talented Elite Jin (実力派エリート迅, Jitsuryokuha Elite Jin?) |
Weekly Shōnen Jump | 44, 2011 October 8, 2011 |
49 |
Serials
[edit | edit source]| Title | Anthology | First Issue | Last Issue | Span | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chapters | Volumes | ||||
| Super Dog Rilienthal (賢い犬リリエンタール, Kashikoi Ken Ririentāru?) |
Weekly Shōnen Jump | 42, 2009 September 14, 2009 |
23, 2010 May 10, 2010 |
32 | 4 |
| World Trigger (ワールドトリガー, Wārudo Torigā?) |
Weekly Shōnen Jump | 11, 2013 February 9, 2013 |
52, 2018 November 29, 2018 |
169 | 19 |
| Jump SQ | 1, 2018 December 4, 2018 |
Ongoing | 87+ (SQ) 256+ (Total) |
9+ (SQ) 28+ (Total) | |
Editors (Magazine)
[edit | edit source]- Akira Jean-Baptiste Hattori (SDR Volume 1-4; WT Volume 1-13) (Airhead Attacker)
- Yū Saitō (WT Volume 13-20)
- Koji Yoshida (WT Volume 20-23)
- Takuma Yui (WT Volume 24-27) (Switched to Media Editor)
- Haruto Okuyama (WT Volume 27-28)
- Okamoto
Manager
[edit | edit source]- Koma (Close-range All-rounder)
Super Dog Rilienthal Staff
[edit | edit source]Manga Editor
[edit | edit source]- Akiko Ōkawara (Volume 3 & 4)
Illustration Collaborator
[edit | edit source]- Hironobu Iwata (Volume 1-4)
- Makoto Matsuo (Volume 1-4)
- Shinya Yagi (Volume 1-4)
- Katsutoshi Murase (Volume 1 & 4)
Help Staff
[edit | edit source]- Ken Hirabayashi (Volume 1, 3 & 4)
- Shōtarō Oikawa (Volume 1 & 4)
Special Thanks
[edit | edit source]- Jigoku no Misawa (Volume 2-4)
- Shizumu Watanabe (Volume 2 & 4)
World Trigger Staff
[edit | edit source]Manga Volume Editor
[edit | edit source]- Yō Terayama (first) (Ambush Attacker)
- Junpei Kumagae (second)
- Akihiro Katayama (third)
Manga Volume Design
[edit | edit source]- Yūta Yuzawa (Strategic Sniper)
Illustration Collaborator
[edit | edit source]- Satoshi Watanabe (Volume 1-23) (Woohoo Attacker)
- Haruto Nawashirozawa (Volume 2-23) (Intuitive Sniper)
- Shingo Sasai (Volume 10-23) (Intuitive Sniper)
- Shigeki Uda (Volume 13-18)
- Daisuke Kakei (Volume 16-23)
- Yoshitaka Nagayama (Volume 1-9) (Intuitive Sniper)
- Nobuyuki Yamamori (Volume 1-3)
Help Staff
[edit | edit source]- Shingo Sasai (Volume 1, 2, 6-9)
- Ippei Gotō (Volume 1-3)
- Takeshi Tanaka (Volume 1 & 2)
- Shinichirō Ōe (Volume 1 & 3)
- Kōhei Mihara (Volume 2 & 3)
- Makoto Matsuo (Volume 1)
- Shinya Yagi (Volume 1)
- Takumi Nagano (Volume 1)
- Keisuke Yamada (Volume 1)
- Daisuke Oikawa (Volume 1)
- Kenta Tsuchida (Volume 1)
- Haruto Nawashirozawa (Volume 1)
- Junichi Tarutani (Volume 1)
- Kōta Hama (Volume 1)
- Taku Sakamoto (Volume 2)
- Mafuyu Konishi (Volume 2)
- Hiroki Tomisawa (Volume 2)
- Toshio Fukuda (Volume 2)
- Mamoru Yoshida (Volume 5)
- Takashi Miyawaki (Volume 5)
- Yoshitaka Nagayama (Volume 10)
- Shigeki Uda (Volume 12)
- Issei Odoru (Volume 22)
- Hiroi Horikoshi (Volume 23)
Author Comments in WSJ/JSQ:
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- May 20, 2013: "My assistants are using the new 3DS game Tomodachi Collection to create World Trigger characters. They look really good!"
- June 2, 2014: "World Trigger will get an anime!! I'm the most surprised of all. I'll do my best so that the anime won't outshine the manga!"
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Contact
[edit | edit source]To contact him via mail, letters may be sent to:
〒101-8050
Tokyo, Hitotsubashi, 2-5-10
Jump SQ. Editorial Department
Address in Japanese:
〒101-8050
東京都一ツ橋2-5-10
集英社 ジャンプSQ.編集部
Trivia
[edit | edit source]- He was ranked 30th in the first Popularity Poll and 43 in the second one (where he is called Ashihara-Sensei). Additionally, his medicine and his mother were both ranked 130th in the second poll.
- He has a preference for physical magazines, which partially motivated his decision to choose Jump SQ as the new publisher.[2]
- Going by the in-universe astrological signs, his zodiac would be Amphibious.[3]