SEO Kouji

Japanese Name: 瀬尾公治

Place of Birth: Shoubara City, Hiroshima, Japan

Gender: Male

Information for Authors: He debuted in 1996 with the one-shot Half & Half in Fresh magazine. His two hits, Suzuka and Cross Over, both mixed the genres of sports with high school romance. Suzuka focused on track and field while Cross Over used basketball. It is also interesting to note that the main love interest of the male protagonists of several of his works are extremely similar in appearance, namely in Half and Half, Cross Over, Suzuka, and Kimi no Iru Machi. He cited in official guide book “Suzukaze” that he is influenced by FUJIKO F. Fujio, TAKADA Yuzo, SODA Masahito, MATSUMOTO Izumi & MATSUMOTO Leiji. He was an assistant to OOSHIMA Tsukasa on soccer manga Shoot!. IINUMA Yuuki, TSUKIYAMA Kaya, OCHIAI Hirokazu, TAMENAGA Yuu, NINOMIYA Yuuji, MIKAWA Eko & NAKAMARU Yousuke were his assistants. He is a fan of X JAPAN, ONE OK ROCK, MY FIRST STORY, and the telephones.