Range Murata

Range Murata (2008)

Renji "Range" Murata ( Japanese 村田 蓮 爾 , Murata Renji ; born October 2, 1968 in Osaka Prefecture ) is a Japanese illustrator and designer , known for his combination of Art Deco and Japanese anime elements. He achieved great fame through the conceptual design of the anime series Last Exile and Blue Submarine No.6 .

He began his career in the early 1990s designing video game productions.

He has published more than a dozen books, some of the most notable being rule , futurhythm , and editor-in-chief robot . In 2006 he also received the Seiun Prize in the category “Best Artist of the Year”.

Work

Murata illustrated the covers of the manga magazine JC.COM .

Anime

• Blue Submarine No.6 : character design and mechanical element design
• Last Exile : conceptual character design
• Mardock Scramble : Character design
• Second Renaissance : design of the mechanical elements of the first part
• Solty Rei : conceptual design
• Table and Fishman : Design
• Shangri-La : character design
• Last Exile: Ginjoku no Fam: character design

Video games

• The Power Instinct series (original title: Goketsuji Ichizoku )
• Spy fiction
• Wachenröder

Printed works

• Artbooks
  • Like a balance life
  • futurhythm
  • Form | code
  • robot as editor
• Dōjinshi
  • Racten
  • Futsutsuka
  • TEMPAO
  • Wildflowers
  • Life Like Biew
  • Concurrence
  • Marion and Company Special Remix 1997
  • World of Wachenröder
  • The Missing Special Remix 1998
  • Fault lines
  • azure: Blue Submarine No. 6 Character Filegraphy
  • SPHERES: 1st LASTEXILE Character Filegraphy
  • SPHERES: 2nd LASTEXILE Character Filegraphy
  • SPHERES +
  • SPHERES Pre ++
  • SPHERES ++
  • Synchrotons
• Novels
  • Shingeki no Kyojin : Kakuzetsu Toshi no Joō (Author: Ryō Kawakami)

Web links

Commons : Range Murata  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Range Murata July 2005 Interview at J LHLS