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Idzuki Kouji is a Japanese manga artist and the author of the Samus and Joey and Metroid EX stories in Comic Bom Bom. Kouji later reflected that he never kept any copies of either work apart from the original manuscripts, although CapCom of the Metroid Database was able to acquire both stories in their entireties and translate both of them into English. Kouji and CapCom have kept in contact, and Kouji was happy that someone was enjoying his work enough to translate it into English.