Daisuke Ashihara

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).

Editors (Magazine)

 * 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 (current)

Manager

 * Koma (Close-range All-rounder)

Manga Editor

 * Akiko Ōkawara (Volume 3 & 4)

Illustration Collaborator

 * Hironobu Iwata (Volume 1-4)
 * Makoto Matsuo (Volume 1-4)
 * Shinya Yagi (Volume 1-4)
 * Katsutoshi Murase (Volume 1 & 4)

Help Staff

 * Ken Hirabayashi (Volume 1, 3 & 4)
 * Shōtarō Oikawa (Volume 1 & 4)

Special Thanks

 * Jigoku no Misawa (Volume 2-4)
 * Shizumu Watanabe (Volume 2 & 4)

Manga Volume Editor

 * Yō Terayama (first) (Ambush Attacker)
 * Junpei Kumagae (second)
 * Akihiro Katayama (third)

Manga Volume Design

 * Yūta Yuzawa (Strategic Sniper)

Illustration Collaborator

 * 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

 * 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!"

Contact
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

 * 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.
 * Going by the in-universe astrological signs, his zodiac would be Amphibious.