Daisuke Ashihara (葦(あし)原(はら) 大(だい)介(すけ), Ashihara Daisuke ^?), 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).

Biography

Works

Oneshots

Title	Issue			Pages
	Anthology	Issue Number and Year	Release Date
Room 303 (ルームサンマルサン, Rūmu Sanmarusan?)	Weekly Shōnen Jump	33, 2008	July 14, 2008	31
Super Dog Rilienthal (賢い犬リリエンタール, Kashikoi ken Ririentāru?)	Weekly Shōnen Jump	51, 2008	November 17, 2008	49
Trigger Keeper (トリガーキーパー, Torigā kīpā?)	Weekly Shōnen Jump	8, 2009 9, 2009	January 19, 2009 January 26, 2009	21 23
Jitsuryokuha Elite Jin (実力派エリート迅, Talented Elite Jin?)	Weekly Shōnen Jump	44, 2011	October 8, 2011	49

Serials

Title	Anthology	First Issue	Last Issue	Span
				Chapters	Volumes
Super Dog Rilienthal (賢い犬リリエンタール, Kashikoi Ken Ririentāru?)	Weekly Shōnen Jump	42, 2009 September 14, 2009	23, 2010 May 10, 2010	32	4
World Trigger (ワールドトリガー, Wārudo Torigā?)	Weekly Shōnen Jump	11, 2013 February 9, 2011	52, 2018 November 29, 2018	169	19
	Jump SQ	1, 2018 December 4, 2018	Ongoing	56+ (SQ) 224+ (Total)	6+ (SQ) 25+ (Total)

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)

Super Dog Rilienthal Staff

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)

World Trigger Staff

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:

• 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!"

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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.^[1]
• Going by the in-universe astrological signs, his zodiac would be Amphibious.^[2]