Eiji Usatsuka
Eiji Usatsuka is a Japanese light novel illustrator. He is notable for the illustration for the series Zero no Tsukaima. He illustrates insert images for many novels. • Illustration — Eiji Usatsuka's signature After university graduation he was employed as illustrator by the visual novel publisher Visual Art's using the pseudonym Sawagani (サワガニ, Japanese Freshwater Crab).
Eiji Usatsuka
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- Born
- 1976 · Osaka Prefecture.
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- illustrator
- Education
- Osaka Sangyo University
- Languages
- Japanese
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Eiji Usatsuka is a Japanese light novel illustrator. He is notable for the illustration for the series Zero no Tsukaima. He illustrates insert images for many novels. • Illustration — Eiji Usatsuka's signature After university graduation he was employed as illustrator by the visual novel publisher Visual Art's using the pseudonym Sawagani (サワガニ, Japanese Freshwater Crab).
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The similarity of "both peoples" designs, were however noticed and later revealed by Tōya Okano (scenario assistant for Visual Art's' Clannad) in a Dengeki G's Magazine interview article presenting Visual Art's brand Manas game Angel Magister.
Novels and other works he contributed his illustrations to include: • Hayate the Combat Butler light novel #2 • Zero no Tsukaima • Zero no Tsukaima Gaiden: Tabatha no Bōken • Kaze no Kishihime • Shinkyoku Sōkai Polyphonica Marble • Shinkyoku Sōkai Polyphonica Blue Series • Scramble Heart as Sawagani • In Another World With My Smartphone • Angel Magister
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