Background
Kenji Terada was born in Tokyo, Japan.
寺田 憲史
director novelist organizer writer
Kenji Terada was born in Tokyo, Japan.
He graduated in 1973 from Waseda University with a degree in European History.
His more notable works include writing the first three games of the Final Fantasy series. He also worked on Batman: Dark Tomorrow, created the concept for the Sega Civil Defense game Dark Wizard, and was the series organizer and main script writer for the Kimagure Orange Road series among other things. 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 artist Osamu Tezuka, and in 1980 he became a freelance writer and director for various projects, including writing the scripts for Baoh, Dirty Pair, and Kimagure Orange Road.
He also did some work for Square, writing the scripts for the first three Final 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 game Batman: Dark Tomorrow, as well as the director for the Firestorm anime series.
He has since worked on Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles as well as several other shows and video games. Final Fantasy (1987, scenario writer)
Final Fantasy II (1988, scenario writer)
Final Fantasy III (1990, scenario writer)
Dark Wizard (1993, scenario writer)
Loopy Town no Oheya ga Hoshii! (1995)
Kid Klown in Crazy Chase 2: Love Love Hani Soudatsusen (1996, Director)
Final Fantasy VII (1997, executive producer)
Eternal Eyes (2000, scenario writer)
Batman: Dark Tomorrow (2003, writer, director)
Kinnikuman (1983–1986, script writer)
Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross (1984, script writer)
Dirty Pair (television series) (1985, script writer)
Outlanders (1986, director)
Baoh (1989, script writer)
Kimagure Orange Road (1989–1991, series organizer, script writer)
Ushio and Tora (1992–1993, script writer)
Yaiba (1993-1994, Series Composition, Scenario)
Wedding Peach (1995–1996, script writer)
Shinkai Densetsu Meremanoid (1997-1998, Series Composition)
Firestorm (2003, director)
Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles (2006, story consultant).