Akira Jean-Baptiste Hattori

Akira Jean-Baptiste Hattori (服部ジャン＝バティスト哲) was Daisuke Ashihara's first editor and worked with him for eight years until 2015. On June 23rd, 2015, he revealed on the official Twitter that he will no longer be acting as editor. He had also worked with Eiichirō Oda on One Piece.

Trivia

 * His favorite World Trigger chapters are chapter 11 and chapter 14, as he considers them "a turning point" in World Trigger.
 * He appears as a character on the World Trigger website and other advertising media as PR Department Section Chief Akira Jean-Baptiste Hattori. He is in charge of (magazine and web) advertising, along with Sakurako Taketomi.
 * The character Akira Hattori from Bakuman is also named after him.