Hideyuki Kurata

Hideyuki Kurata (倉田 英之, Kurata Hideyuki^?, born July 9, 1968 in Ibara, Okayama) is a Japanese novelist, manga and anime script writer of such works as Read or Die, Now and Then, Here and There, Kamichu!, and Cloth Road. He has been working in Studio ORPHEE Inc since 2003.

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