Akihiro Yamada (山田章博) is a Japanese illustrator and manga artist. He was born in 1957 in Kōchi Prefecture, Shikoku, and now resides in Kyōto. He designed charcters for anime such as Rahxephon, and also supplies covers and interior art for many Japanese novel series, including the Twelve Kingdoms (十二国記 - Jūni Kokki, or as listed on the official site, Jūni Kokuki) novels by Fuyumi Ono (小野不由美). 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 Saiyuki: Journey West on Playstation.Manga
Yamada drew the manga Record of Lodoss War: The Lady of Pharis (ロドス島戦記 - ファリスの聖女) 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, The Lairs of the Secret Gods (秘神界 - Hishinkai''). Yamada is drawing covers that are exculsive to the English translation. Related Links
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