Akira Yasuda
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Akira Yasuda (安田 朗 Yasuda Akira?) (born July 21, 1964) is a Japanese illustrator, animator, character designer, game designer and mecha designer, who works under the pen name "Akiman".
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[edit] Career
Yasuda was an employee of the video game company Capcom (joining in 1985) and has worked on many Capcom games, taking on various art roles for works such as the Street Fighter and Final Fight franchises. He has also been involved in televised anime, most notably Turn A Gundam and Overman King Gainer. He officially left Capcom in 2003 and started his own business as a freelance artist. He is currently one of the mecha designers for Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion.
[edit] Notable Works
[edit] Anime
- Turn A Gundam (character designer)
- ∀ Gundam I: Earth Light (character designer)
- ∀ Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly (character designer}
- Overman King Gainer (mecha designer)
- Code Geass (mecha designer)
- Mamotte Shugogetten (key animation)
[edit] Video Games
- 1942 (NES version box art)
- Side Arms (original artwork)
- Forgotten Worlds (game designer)
- Final Fight (planner)
- Street Fighter II (series) (planner)
- Super Street Fighter II (series) (planner)
- Captain Commando (planner)
- Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors
- Vampire Savior: Jedah's Damnation
- X-Men: Children of the Atom
- Marvel Super Heroes (object design: Wolverine)
- Red Earth
- Street Fighter Alpha 2
- Street Fighter Alpha 3 (character designer)
- X-Men vs. Street Fighter (character designer)
- Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter (original artwork)
- Street Fighter III (original artwork)
- Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
- Final Fight Revenge
- Tech Romancer (design supervisor)
- Star Gladiator (character designer)
- Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein (character designer)
- Power Stone (character designer)
- Power Stone 2 (character designer)
- Red Dead Revolver (character designer)
- Gundam: True Odyssey (main character & package design)
- Fushigi no Dungeon: Furai no Shiren DS (box art)
[edit] Other Works
- ∀ Gundam: Wind of Moon (∀ Gundam: Tsuki no Kaze, 2004 - 2005) (manga)
- Giga69 (magazine coverarts)
