Kenji Terada (寺田 憲史,Terada Kenji, born 11 July 1952) is a Japanesescenario writer, anime director, series organizer andnovelist. His more notable works include writing the first three games of theFinal Fantasy series. He also worked onBatman: Dark Tomorrow, created the concept for the Sega CD gameDark Wizard, and was the series organizer and main script writer for theKimagure Orange Road series among other things.
Kenji Terada was born in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated in 1973 fromWaseda University with a degree in European History. During his degree, Terada did illustrations for newspapers and magazines, worked on film sets, and did some work as an animator. In 1978, he became an assistant for artistOsamu Tezuka, and in 1980 he became a freelance writer and director for various projects, including writing the scripts forBaoh,Dirty Pair, andKimagure Orange Road. He also did some work forSquare, writing the scripts for the first threeFinal Fantasy video games. He remained a script writer for films and animation until 2003, when he served as both the writer and director for the video gameBatman: Dark Tomorrow, as well as the director for theFirestorm anime series. He has since worked onRobotech: The Shadow Chronicles as well as several other shows and video games.[1]
