Range Murata

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Renji "Range" Murata (村田 蓮爾 Murata Renji, born October 2, 1968) is a Japanese artist and designer, known for his unique style combining Art Deco and Japanese anime elements. He is best known for his conceptual design work on anime series Last Exile and Blue Submarine No. 6.

Born October 2, 1968 in Osaka, Japan, he began his career in the early 1990s doing design work for video games. He still continues to do some work in this area today, having recently done the character designs for the PlayStation 2 game Spy Fiction.

He has published more than a dozen books of his work, some of the most notable being robot, rule, and futurhythm.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Anime 1.2 Video Games 1.3 Printed Works 2 External links

[edit] Works

[edit] Anime

• Blue Submarine No. 6
• Last Exile
• Mardock Scramble

[edit] Video Games

• The Power Instinct series (Goketsuji Ichizoku in Japan)
• Spy Fiction
• Wachenroder

[edit] Printed Works

• Artbooks
  • Like a Balance Life
  • futurhythm
  • Form|Code
  • ROBOT

• Doujinshi
  • 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++
  • Synchrotone

[edit] External links

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• PSE Web
• long range bullet, a Range Murata fansite
• Range Murata at the Anime News Network Encyclopedia
• Range Murata's Robot
• Range Murata July 2005 Interview at J LHLS