Takao Koyama

Takao Koyama, born on April 21, 1948, in Akishima, Tokyo, is a Japanese screenwriter and novelist working chiefly in anime; his name was written with different characters until 1987. He graduated from Waseda University in 1972 and joined Tatsunoko Production as a story creator and screenwriter, leaving in 1975 but remaining involved with the Time Bokan series from its 1975 start through to Itadakiman in 1983, and afterwards writing for Toei Animation productions such as Captain Tsubasa, Dragon Ball, and Saint Seiya. In 1986 he founded the Anime Scenario House to train new writers, whose graduates by 1987 included Satoru Akahori, Keiko Nobumoto, and Aya Matsui, and which became the support company Brother Noppo in 1988. He also authored a remake of Akira Toriyama's Soldier of Savings Cashman, illustrated by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru and serialized in V Jump from 1997 to 1998.