Akira Yasuda
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Akira Yasuda (安田 朗 Yasuda Akira?) (born July 21, 1964) is a Japanese animator, character designer, game designer and mecha designer, who works under the pen name "Akiman". Yasuda was formerly an employee of the video game company Capcom (joining in 1985) and has worked on many Capcom games, taking on various design roles for works such as the Final Fight series and Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (including their updates) under the pen name Akiman. He has also been involved in anime production, most notably ∀ Gundam, Overman King Gainer and Code Geass. He officially left Capcom in 2003 and started working as a freelance artist.[1] [2]
Notable works
Anime
- Mamotte Shugogetten (key animation)
- Turn A Gundam (character designer)
- Overman King Gainer (mecha designer)
- Code Geass (mecha designer)
- Bodacious Space Pirates (animation character design)
- Gundam Reconguista in G (mecha designer)
Video games
- 1942 (NES version cover art)
- Hyper Dyne 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)
- The Punisher
- Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors
- Darkstalkers 3
- X-Men: Children of the Atom
- Marvel Super Heroes (object design: Wolverine)
- Red Earth (original artwork)
- 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)
- Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes (original artwork)
- Street Fighter III (original artwork)
- Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike (character designer)
- 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)
- MS Saga: A New Dawn (main character & package design)
- Culdcept Saga (card illustration: Sword Princess)
- Fushigi no Dungeon: Furai no Shiren DS (cover art)
- Sangokushi Taisen DS (card illustration: Enclosure Empress)
- Brave Story: New Traveler (character designer)
- Kidou Senshi Gundam: Giren no Yabou - Axis no Kyoui V (cover art)[3]
Other works
- ∀ Gundam: Wind of Moon (∀ Gundam: Tsuki no Kaze, 2004–2005) (manga)
- Giga69 (magazine coverart)
- Akira Yasuda ∀ Gundam Designs (∀ Gundam series artbook)
- Akiman Cover Girls (poster book of Giga69 magazine covers)
- "Haji" DVD cover (included in "[nine*nine]" live audio compilation by Gackt, Oct. 29, 2008)
- Kousoku M-ko figurine (character design and insert comic)
- Eureka Magazine (magazine coverart)
- Street Fighter Art Comic Anthology (cover art)
- Street Fighter Artworks HA 20th Anniversary Art Book (cover art)
- Gundam Rock Music Album (cover art)
- Initial D (live action movie) as RedSuns Member A
References
External links
- Akiman's blog (Japanese)
- Akira Yasuda at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
