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Yōsuke KURODA

Family name (in kanji): 黒田

Given name (in kanji): 洋介

Date of birth: 1968-03-29

Hometown: Mie, Japan

Chronology:

(2003) Won the "Best Individual/"Individual Achievement" award at the 8th Animation Kobe

About:

Set up the company Studio Orphee, a group of 7 people dedicated to producing anime scripts, writing manga stories and song lyrics, and management/structuring/editing of publications.

Non-anime staff credits:

Writer for "Bujingai" (VG) (Japanese)

News: Show: 2 +8 ref. +96 unverified

Gundam Build Fighters TV Anime to Premiere in October (Jul 2, 2013)

Updated AX Guest List (Jun 4, 2003)

Convention report:

Opening Ceremonies (Jul 21, 2003)

Interview:

Interview: The Staff of the 2022 BASTARD!! Anime (Jan 16, 2023)

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Staff in:
2.43: Seiin High School Boys Volleyball Team (TV) : Series Composition, Script (eps 1-12)
801 T.T.S. Airbats (OAV) : Script (ep 6)
Android Ana Maico 2010 (TV) : Series Composition, Screenplay (14 episodes

eps 1-4, 8-9, 15-16, 19-24

)
BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- (ONA) : Series Composition, Script (13 episodes

eps 1-2, 6-7, 10-13, 16-17, 22-24

)
BASTARD!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy-: Hell's Requiem (ONA) : Series Composition, Script (eps 1-15)
Battle Athletes Victory (TV) : Script (6 episodes

eps 5, 7, 9, 13, 15, 17

)
Battle Girl High School (TV) : Series Composition
Best Student Council (TV) : Series Composition, Scenario, Theme Song Lyrics (ED)
Big Windup! (TV) : Series Composition, Script (eps 1-2, 8, 24)
Big Windup! Season 2 (TV) : Series Composition, Script (eps 1, 8-13)
Birdie Wing -Golf Girls' Story- (TV) : Series Composition, Script
Birdie Wing -Golf Girls' Story- (TV 2) : Series Composition
Bottle Fairy (TV) : Archive Supervisor, Theme Song Lyrics (OP & ED)
Btooom! (TV) : Script (eps 1-12)
Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran (TV) : Script
Demonbane (TV) : Series Composition, Script (eps 1, 9-12)
Drifters (TV) : Script (eps 4-7, 10-12)
Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure (TV) : Series Composition, Script (eps 1-2, 8, 13), Theme Song Lyrics (ED original)
Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventures Special : Screenplay
Excel Saga (TV) : Script (eps 2-26 even)
Fire Emblem (OAV) : Screenplay
Geobreeders (OAV) : Script
Geobreeders: Breakthrough (OAV) : Script
Goblin Slayer (TV) : Script (eps 2, 5-7, 10)
Gundam Build Divers (TV) : Script (8 episodes

eps 4, 8, 10, 13, 15, 18, 21, 24

)
Gundam Build Fighters (TV) : Series Composition, Script (eps 1-25)
Gundam Build Fighters Try (TV) : Series Composition
Gundam Build Fighters Try Island Wars (special) : Series Composition, Script
Gundam Build Fighters: Battlogue (ONA) : Series Composition
Gundam Build Fighters: GM's Counterattack (ONA) : Series Composition
Gundam Build Metaverse (ONA) : Script Assistant (eps 1-3)
Gungrave (TV) : Series Composition, Script, Series Concept
Hayate the Combat Butler!! (OAV) : Series Composition
Hayate the Combat Butler!! (TV) : Series Composition, Script (ep 10)
Hellsing Ultimate (OAV) : Series Composition, Script (eps 1, 3, 6-7), Screenplay
High School of the Dead (TV) : Series Composition, Screenplay (10 episodes

eps 1-3, 5-8, 10-12

)
Highschool of the Dead: Drifters of the Dead (OAV) : Script
Hikarian - Great Railroad Protector (TV) : Script (11 episodes

eps 42-43, 47, 49, 56, 61, 63, 70-71, 80, 91

)
Honey and Clover (TV) : Script
Honey and Clover II (TV) : Series Composition, Script
ID-0 (TV) : Series Composition, Script (eps 1-12)
Infinite Ryvius (manga) : Script
Infinite Ryvius (TV) : Series Composition, Screenplay (eps 1-8, 11-23)
Jormungand (TV) : Series Composition, Script (eps 1-12)
Jormungand Perfect Order (TV) : Series Composition, Script (eps 13-24)
Jungle de Ikou! (OAV) : Script
Kiteretsu Daihyakka (TV) : Sound Producer
Kokoro Library (manga) : Scenario
Kokoro Library (TV) : Script (Studio Orphee)
Kokoro Library - Communication Clips (special) : Script
Love Hina (TV) : Scenario (ep 14)
Madlax (TV) : Series Composition, Screenplay
Magical Girl Pretty Sammy (OAV) : Screenplay (#1,2,3)
Magical Girl Pretty Sammy Bonus Theatre (OAV) : Screenplay
Magical Project S (TV) : Series Composition, Screenplay (12 episodes

eps 1, 3, 8-9, 13, 16-17, 20-21, 23, 25-26

), Insert Song Lyrics ("Pixy Misa Shouka"; ep 3)
Maken-Ki! Battling Venus (TV) : Series Composition, Script (5 episodes

eps 1-2, 6, 8, 12

)
Maken-Ki! Battling Venus 2 (TV) : Series Composition, Script (5 episodes

eps 1-2, 5, 7, 10

)
Maken-Ki! It's Summer! It's Swimsuits! It's Training Camp! (OAV) : Screenplay
Maken-Ki! Takeru Turns into a Woman!? Naked in a Southern Island! (OAV) : Series Composition, Script
Mao-chan (TV) : Series Composition, Screenplay (eps 1-21, 23-26)
Mashle: Magic and Muscles (TV) : Series Composition, Script (8-12)

eps 1, 4, 17, 20, 24, 26

)
Photon: The Idiot Adventures (OAV) : Series Composition, Screenplay (eps 1-2, 4, 6), Concept
Please Teacher! (TV) : Scenario (eps 1-13)
Please Teacher! Official Fanbook (resource book) : Editing, Structure
Please Twins! (OAV) : Scenario
Please Twins! (TV) : Scenario (eps 1-13)
Puni Puni Poemy (OAV) : Series Composition, Screenplay
Ring ni Kakero 1 (TV) : Series Composition, Script
Ring ni Kakero 1: Nichibei Kessen Hen (TV) : Series Composition, Script (6 episodes

eps 1-2, 6-7, 11-12

)
Ring ni Kakero 1: Sekai Taikai-hen (TV) : Series Composition, Script (eps 1, 4, 5 & 6)
Ring ni Kakero 1: Shadow (TV) : Series Composition, Script (eps 1, 4, 6)
S-CRY-ed (TV) : Screenplay
Saint Seiya: The Hades Chapter - Elysion (OAV) : Series Composition
Saint Seiya: The Hades Chapter - Inferno (OAV) : Series Composition
Scryed (manga) : Story
Scryed Alteration I Tao (movie) : Screenplay
Scryed Alteration II Quan (movie) : Screenplay
Softenni! (TV) : Scenario (ep 10)
SoniAni: Super Sonico the Animation (TV) : Script
Spider Riders (TV) : Series Composition, Script
Spider Riders: Yomigaeru Taiyou (TV) : Series Composition, Script (16 episodes

eps 4, 7-10, 12-14, 17-19, 21-22, 24-26

)
Steel Angel Kurumi 2 (TV) : Series Composition, Script (eps 1-12)
Steel Angel Kurumi Zero (OAV) : Series Composition, Script (eps 1-3)
Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online (TV) : Series Composition, Scenario (all eps but 5.5)
Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online II (TV 2) : Series Composition, Script
Tattoon Master (OAV) : Script
Tenchi Muyo! GXP (TV) : Series Composition, Script (ep 17)
Tenchi Muyo! Ryo Ohki (OAV 3/2003) : Series Composition, Screenplay
Tenchi Muyo! Ryo Ohki: Final Confrontations (OAV) : Series Composition
Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki (OAV 2/1994) : Screenplay
Tenchi Muyo! The Night Before The Carnival (OAV) : Screenplay
Tenchi Universe (TV) : Script (4 episodes

eps 4, 9, 17, 21

)
Tokimeki Memorial (OAV) : Script
Trigun (TV) : Series Composition, Script (eps 1-26)
Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid (TV) : Series Composition, Script (8 episodes

eps 1-4, 8-9, 11-12

)
Variable Geo (OAV) : Screenplay
Waiting in the Summer (OAV) : Screenplay
Waiting in the Summer (TV) : Screenplay, Diagram Animation Assistance (ep 8)
Wooser's Hand-to-Mouth Life: Phantasmagoric Arc (TV 3) : Script (ep 2)
Yumeria (TV) : Series Composition, Script (eps 1, 3-4)

Cast in:
High School of the Dead (TV) as Them (ep 2)
Puni Puni Poemy (OAV) as Yosuke Kuroda

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