Creator & Role Information

Kourita, Christophe

French-Japanese. Born in Tokyo where he lived until the age of 17. Published his first comic book"Mashemalo"(Editions Sorg) in France in '87 and '89. 1991-1994 Returns to Japan and publishes the series "Odaiji ni" in the weekly magazine "Morning"(Kodansha) which has a circulation of over 1 million copies. 1993 : Publishes the first volume of "Odaiji ni". 1994 : Publishes the second volume of "Odaiji ni" and completes several short SF stories including "The Sky of Marcel"and "Spike" for the magazine "Young Champion" (Akita Shoten). Returns to France in '94 to write storyboards for TV animation series (Gaumont, Saban, Marathon Animation, Ex-Machina). In 2004, worked in Tokyo on a French-Japanese TV animation co-production. Since late 2004, pulishes a new manga series about imaginary explorer's legends, entitled "Aventurier" in the magazine "Comic Beam"(Enterbrain), in Japan . Is currently working on various new projects such as "Remi la Boheme" and "Bachelor-Planet Brutus."