Itaru Hinoue

Itaru Hinoue (Japanese樋上 いたる, Hinoue Itaru; born March 1, in the prefecture of Osaka, Japan) is the pseudonym of a Japanese artist whose real name is not known. She is a founding member of the Games Developer Key and took over the artistic direction of the title Kanon, Air and Clannad.

Artist Name

Your pseudonym borrowed from the artist the book written by Shō Kitagawa Manga C, whose protagonist was named Itaru Amano (天野 格, Amano Itaru ).

Career

Under the influence of popular Ren'ai adventure and simulation Dōkyūsei she attended vocational school to become a professional artist with the target. In 1996, she worked as one of many artists for the game Tamago ryori Bon Bin Pompon. Shortly after its completion, she moved to the Tactics game developers, who worked for the publisher Nexton. There they took over the artistic direction of the game Dosei, Moon. and One - Kagayaku Kisetsu e

With some employees of these works, she founded together with June Maeda, Shinji Orito, Naoki Hisaya and OdiakeS the game developer key, which henceforth worked for the publisher Visual Art's. For Key, she worked on the titles Kanon, Air and Clannad. On the following games Planetarian - Chiisana Hoshi no Yume and Tomoyo After - It's a Wonderful Life but do not worked with. Only with Little Busters! , Which was released in July 2007, she took on the role of Artistic Director, which she shared with the Successor of Na - Ga, who designed most of the characters again.

Outside of Key she worked as Artistic Director in the development of the yaoi Ren'ai Bokura wa Minna - Adventures, koi o suru - Nous tous chute dans l' amour. (ぼくら は みんな,恋 を するNous tous chute dans l' amour. ) With Developer Pekoe, who also works for Visual Art's. In 2007, she designed the uniform design of the five -part series School Heart's. The producer of the series - Mana - was also one of the brands of Visual Art's.

Since December 2007 she hosted along with Shinji Orito and Chiro ( an employee at Pekoe ), the Internet radio broadcast Radio Key. This is a show where the audience can take personal control over the content and as such can also formulate questions for the trio.

In 2008, work began on the title Rewrite, in which she took over project planning and at the same time takes over the work of the artistic director and character designer. She also helped create one of the book posters of the manga Kannagi.

Art style

The art style designed by Itaru Hinoue characters changed over the years. Still have these characteristics. The designed of her characters have very small noses, its distance from the mouth is small. This results in an unnaturally large distance between the bottom of the chin and mouth. The roundish eyes ( a trapezoid has a rounded top ) are quite large and well placed far apart. The limbs of the characters are, as well as the torso, long and thin lines. Although this kind of drawings do not match the usual style, she designed the characters for a high - Moe factor is awarded. This recurring style is referred to by the Japanese fans as " Itaru -e" (いたる 絵, dt " Itaru drawings ").

Reception

Shortly before the release of Clannad in April 2004 signed two of her drawings were auctioned on the Japanese website of Yahoo!. The bidding started at one yen. In the first drawing offered 48 people and it was 479,000 yen ( about 3,500 € ) sold, while the second drawing ( a representation of Kotomi from Clannad ) for 531,000 Yen ( about 3900 € ) changed hands after 113 bids had been received. The latter drawing was so far the most expensive item of the sixth since April 2001 on Yahoo! (Japan) was bought.