Akihiro Yamada
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is a Japanese illustrator and manga artist. He was born in 1957 in Kōchi Prefecture, Shikoku, and now resides in Kyoto. He designed charcters for anime such as Rahxephon, and also supplies covers and interior art for many Japanese novel series, including the Twelve Kingdoms novels by Fuyumi Ono.
Works
Character Design
Anime for which Yamada has done character designs includes Shinkai Densetsu Mermanoid and Rahxephon. He has created character designs for a number of video games such as Enix's Mystic Ark on Super Famicom, Terra Phantastica on Sega Saturn, and '' on PlayStation.
Manga
Yamada drew the manga Record of Lodoss War: The Lady of Pharis in conjunction with writer Ryo Mizuno, and is currently working on a Japanese-themed solo manga, Beast of East.Novel Illustration
Yamada attracted attention outside of Japan through his illustrations of Fuyumi Ono's long-running Twelve Kingdoms light novel series. He specially designed the rich cover illustrations for the home DVD releases of the anime adaptation of Twelve Kingdoms. Within Japan he has illustrated covers for numerous translated anthologies of Cthulhu Mythos literature , and is currently working with Kurodahan Press on their translation of a four-volume Japanese anthology of Cthulhu Mythos literature, . Yamada is drawing covers that are exculsive to the English translation.
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