Range Murata

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

He began his career in the early 1990s with the design for video game productions.

He has published more than a dozen books, some of the most respected are rule, futurhythm, and robot as a publisher. He also received the 2006 Seiun Award in the category " Best Artist of the Year".

Working

Murata illustrates the cover of the manga magazine JC.COM.

Anime

• Blue Submarine no. 6: Character design and design of mechanical elements
• Last Exile: conceptual character design
• Mardock Scramble: character design ( the series was never published because the production was stopped )
• Second Renaissance: Design of the mechanical elements of the first part
• SoltyRei: conceptual design
• Table and Fishman: Design
• Shangri -La: character design

Video Games

• The Power Instinct series ( orig. title: Goketsuji Ichizoku )
• Spy Fiction
• Guard Röder

Printed works

• Artbooks Like a Balance Life
• Futurhythm
• Form | Code
• Robot as an editor

• Racten
• Futsutsuka
• TEMPAO
• Wildflowers
• Lifelike BIEW
• Concurrence
• Marion and Company Special Remix 1997
• World of guard Röder
• The Missing Special Remix 1998
• Fault Lines
• Azure: Blue Submarine No.. 6 Character Filegraphy
• SPHERES: 1st LAST EXILE Character Filegraphy
• SPHERES: 2nd LAST EXILE Character Filegraphy
• SPHERES
• SPHERES Pre
• SPHERES
• Synchrotrons