Koji Tazawa

Koji Tazawa, or Kouji Tazawa is a Japanese manga author, and the author of the 2002 Metroid manga, originally published in Monthly Magazine Z. Tazawa is credited under special thanks in Metroid: Other M, which briefly touches on some portions of the manga, while also contradicting it at times. It is possible that Tazawa's credit in the game is included to acknowledge his role in authoring the manga or beginning to define the backstory of Samus Aran, which the manga was the focus of and is further elaborated upon in Other M. In addition to Metroid, Tazawa authored Yukei Seikyo Kukla, another story also released in Monthly Magazine Z in 2002.