Katsuya Terada

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One of Katsuya Terada’s distinctive cover girls, from his artbook Terra's Cover Girls.
One of Katsuya Terada’s distinctive cover girls, from his artbook Terra's Cover Girls.

Katsuya Terada (寺田克也 Terada Katsuya?, born December 7, 1963), is a Japanese illustrator and cartoonist from the town of Tamano (Okayama). He has Type A blood. His alias is ラクガキング.

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[edit] Biography

Katsuya Terada is probably best known in the US as the character-designer for the animated film Blood: The Last Vampire. He has also done work related to American comics, such as Iron Man and Hellboy (one of his illustrations was used for an official statuette of Hellboy).

Terada has defined himself as a "rakugaki" artist, more of a philosophy than a style of drawing, in which one draws a little everywhere, all the time, without thinking too much, on notebooks etc. He is a very prolific artist; one of his collections of sketches numbers more than 1000 pages, appropriately called Rakuga King.

He has done very little group-drawn work (an exception being the manga Saiyukiden Daienou (Monkey King)), his principal activities being illustration and character design.

His use of CG tools is integrated very well in his illustrations, giving his work a vivid and rich appearance. Most distinctive, though, are the female faces in his work, which could be described as “cute”, but with a dangerous or elusive character to the eyes. He has admitted various influences on his work, particularly European ones, like Jean Giraud (a.k.a. Moebius) and the magazine Métal Hurlant which he has said gave him a taste for strong women who are slightly stripped.

[edit] Works

[edit] Illustration Collections

Romaji Title Japanese Title Release Date ISBN
戦国自衛隊1549 05-20-05 ISBN 4-04-873614-0
Detective Saburo Jingyuji - Artbook: Detective File ワークジャム公認探偵神宮寺三郎DETECTIVE FILE 02-05 ISBN 4-7572-1136-8
Katsuya Terada & Stapa & Gabin - Photobook: John Symmetry ジョン・シンメトリー 06-04 ISBN 4-947752-63-7
Busin 0 – Character & World Guide for the game Busin 0 寺田克也グラフィックス 03-31-04 ISBN 4-7577-1852-7
Paint Visual Works Poster Book 彩京ビジュアルワークスポスターブック 05-03 ISBN 4-89829-882-6
Shashou 車掌 04-03 ISBN 4-434-03067-1
Lemni3003 Imada mime jokamitachi e Lemni3003 未だ見ぬ女神たちへ 12-19-02 ISBN 4-334-90106-9
Terada Katsuya Presents - Raku Da ラクダが笑う 11-02 ISBN 4-89829-866-4
Painter bon! ペインタボン! 07-02 ISBN 4-947752-22-X
Rakuga King 寺田克也ラクガキング 01-23-02 ISBN 4-7572-0885-5
Terada Katsuya Poster Book 寺田克也ポスターブック 12-00 ISBN 4-06-345073-2
Terra's Cover Girls カバー・ガールズ 11-00 ISBN 4-89829-813-3
Zenbu – The Complete Works 寺田克也全部―寺田克也全仕事集 10-99 ISBN 4-06-330083-8
Saiyukiden Daienou (Monkey King) Vol.1 西遊奇伝大猿王 12-98 ISBN 4-08-782575-2
Devil Man 1999 デビルマン1999 11-98 ISBN 4-06-330067-6
Bacha fighter 2 - ten stories バーチャファイター2テンストーリーズ 03-97 ISBN 4-89366-684-3
Chotto Full kute ii kuru mania no kazu ni irarenai ! ちょっとフルくてイイくるまにゃのらずにいられないっ! 10-94 ISBN 4-418-94405-2

[edit] Works Published in English

Title Release Date ISBN
The Monkey King Volume 1 09-25-05 ISBN 1-59307-304-6

[edit] Films

English Title Credit
Blood: The Last Vampire 3d cgi, character design
Cutie Honey (live action) concept artist, costume design
Devilman (live action) concept artist
Godzilla: Final Wars (live action) Designer: Monster X

[edit] Video games (character and world design)

Title Platform
Busin 0 PS2
Sangokushi PS2
Street Golfer PS2
Bishin densetsu Zoku Super Famicom
Battle K-Road Arcade
Fallen Angels/Daraku Tenshi Arcade
Ground Divide - Sword of Darkness Arcade
Virtua Fighter Remix Sega Saturn

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