Range Murata
Range Murata (村田 蓮爾, Murata Renji; born October 2, 1968) is a Japanese illustrator and manga artist, known for his unique style combining dieselpunk and Japanese moé elements. He is best known for his conceptual design work on anime series Last Exile and Blue Submarine No. He began his career in the early 1990s doing design work for video games, including having done the illustrations and character design for the fighting game series made by Atlus, Power Instinct (Goketsuji Ichizoku).
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Range Murata
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- Born
- 1968. · Osaka.
- Nationality
- Japan.
- Occupation
- illustrator, mangaka, designer and draftsperson.
- Education
- Osaka University of Arts.
- Languages
- Japanese.
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Range Murata (村田 蓮爾, Murata Renji; born October 2, 1968) is a Japanese illustrator and manga artist, known for his unique style combining dieselpunk and Japanese moé elements. He is best known for his conceptual design work on anime series Last Exile and Blue Submarine No. He began his career in the early 1990s doing design work for video games, including having done the illustrations and character design for the fighting game series made by Atlus, Power Instinct (Goketsuji Ichizoku).
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Range Murata (born 1968) is a character designer, designer and draftsperson, among other activities, of Japanese nationality. The character designer was born in Osaka. Range Murata was educated at Osaka University of Arts. Languages used include Japanese.
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Anime
Anime
He has published more than a dozen books of his work, some of the most notable being rule and futurhythm. He won the 2006 Seiun Award for "Best Artist of the Year".
The Animatrix (The Second Renaissance) Blue Submarine No. 6 Last Exile Mardock Scramble (OVA version, canceled) SoltyRei (Rose Anderson's bike design only) Table and Fisherman Shangri-La Last Exile -Fam, The Silver Wing- ID-0 BEM BEM: Become Human Cop Craft
Video games
Video games
The Power Instinct series (Goketsuji Ichizoku in Japan) Groove on Fight Spy Fiction Wachenröder Taisen Hot Gimmick Blue Submarine no.6 ~Time & Tide~
Printed works
Printed works
Attack on Titan: Harsh Mistress of the City (art) Cop Craft (art) Star of Guidance Artbooks Like a Balance Life futurhythm Form|Code robot futurelog Doujinshi Racten Throw Line
Other works
Other works
Murata has been designing figures based on his printed art since at least 2007. These figures appear to be substantial (although small, that is less than 6×6×6 inches) works of art. Figures and sculpture PSE Pro series figures, 1⁄10 scale PSE Solid series small figures in sets of six (usually) Pinky street collaborations Wall hangings Silk screen on silk 28×44 inches
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Life and career
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1968
Range Murata born at Osaka.
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- 1.Komatsu, Mikikazu. Range Murata Draws "Creamy Mami" for Anime Busience Magazine. Crunchyroll. 2015-05-22.
- 2.Lozada, David. Anime NYC to Host Artists Range Murata and Hiroyuki Asada. KeenGamer. 2018.
- 3.Jonathan Mays. Interview: Range Murata. Anime News Network. October 9, 2005.
- 4.Incoming Games. GMR. 38. January 2004.
- 5.Anime News Network. Attack on Titan Novel Illustrated by Last Exile's Range Murata. July 11, 2014.
- 6.Anime News Network. Full Metal Panic! Author's Cop Craft Light Novel Gets 2019 TV Anime. December 29, 2018.
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