About Kazushi Hagiwara:
Kazushi Hagiwara is a Japanese manga artist best known for creating the manga Bastard!!. He originally began as an assistant to hentai manga artist Dirty Matsumoto, and then as an assistant to manga artist Izumi Matsumoto in the production of Kimagure Orange Road, creating his own stories in his spare time. He debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump with a short story, Binetsu Rouge, in 1987. He had a strong influence on Yoshihiro Togashi. He has also supervised, co-written and illustrated three Bastard!! related novels for the Jump! J Books imprint.