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(1952- ) Japanese artist, rare in the contemporary medium for eschewing the Manga cash-cow in favour of portraiture, book illustration and design. In 1985 Amano partnered with director Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell) and Hayao Miyazaki's early producer Hideo Ogata to create the feature-length The Angel's Egg, often considered the most personal of Oshii's anime films.
In the 1980s, Amano began to develop an independent career as one of Japan's most sought-after character and design illustrators, painting hundreds of science fiction and fantasy magazine book covers.
The animation title Amon Saga was written by Baku Yumemakura with character design by him. He was key visual and costume designer for movies written by Baku Yumemakura, including Onmyoji, Onmyoji 2, and Taitei no Ken.
He illustrated three album covers for the Japanese power metal band Galneryus: The Flag of Punishment (2003), Advance to the Fall (2005), and Beyond the End of Despair (2006).
In 2004 Amano was asked by creative director GK Reid to create illustrations in collaboration with author Neil Gaiman and featuring David Bowie and Iman as sci-fi characters, for "The Return of the Thin White Duke" a portion of which were published in V Magazine.
In 2008, Amano created an illustrated adaptation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Magic Flute, published by Radical Comics.
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Yoshitaka Amano
born Shizuoka, Japan: 26 March 1952
works (selected)
- Amano Yoshitaka Gashū: Maten ["Yoshitaka Amano Picture Collection: Evil Universe"] (Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1984) [graph: hb/Yoshitaka Amano]
- Genmukyū ["Castle of Illusions"] (Tokyo: Shinshokan, 1986) [graph: hb/Yoshitaka Amano]
- Imagine (Tokyo: Shinshokan, 1987) [graph: hb/Yoshitaka Amano]
- Hiten: Amano Yoshitaka Gashū ["Flying Universe: Yoshitaka Amano Picture Collection"] (Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1989) [graph: hb/Yoshitaka Amano]
- Final Fantasy Monster Manual (Tokyo: JICC, 1989) [graph: hb/Yoshitaka Amano]
- Dawn (Tokyo: NTT Shuppan, 1991) [graph: hb/Yoshitaka Amano]
- Tenma no Yume: Arslan Senki Irasuto Shū ["Dream of Heaven's Horse: Illustration Collection of the Heroic Legend of Arslan"] (Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 1991) [graph: hb/Yoshitaka Amano]
- Final Fantasy VI: Character Collections (Tokyo: NTT Shuppan, 1994) [graph: hb/Yoshitaka Amano]
- Japan – Final Fantasy (Tokyo: NTT Shuppan, 1994) [graph: hb/Yoshitaka Amano]
- Katen: Amano Yoshitaka Gashū ["Flowery Universe: Yoshitaka Amano Picture Collection"] (Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1994) [graph: pb/Yoshitaka Amano]
- Amano Yoshitaka Guin Saga Gashū (Tokyo: Hayakawa Shobō, 1996) [graph: pb/Yoshitaka Amano]
- Amano Yoshitaka Tarot Card Gashū (Tokyo: Kōfūsha, 1997) [graph: hb/Yoshitaka Amano]
- 1001 Nights (Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 1999) [graph: hb/Yoshitaka Amano]
- Biten: Amano Yoshitaka Gashū ["Beautiful Universe: Yoshitaka Amano Picture Collection"] (Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1999) [graph: pb/Yoshitaka Amano]
- The Sandman: The Dream Hunters (New York: DC Comics, 1999) with Neil Gaiman [graph: hb/Yoshitaka Amano]
- Meruhen ["Fairy Tales"] (Tokyo: Anzutō, 2000) [graph: pb/Yoshitaka Amano]
- Elektra and Wolverine: The Redeemer (New York: Marvel Comics, 2002) with Greg Rucka [graph: in three volumes: pb/Yoshitaka Amano]
- Yoshitaka Amano "Silence" – The Art of Front Mission 1995-2003 (Tokyo: Square Enix, 2004) [graph: pb/Yoshitaka Amano]
- Yōkihi ["Yang Gui-fei"] (Tokyo: Enterbrain, 2006) [illustrations to book by Baku Yumemakura: binding unknown/]
- Elegant Spirits: Amano's The Tale of Genji and Fairies (New York: Dark Horse, 2021) [graph: hb/Yoshitaka Amano]
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Combined with the influence of his prior experience in animation, this focus resulted in a personal style influenced by both modern surrealism and realism.He left Tatsunoko Production and started his activities as a freelancer in 1982.
Amano produced conceptual design pieces for the game in both traditional and computer designed artwork. To be released in January 2013, the novel will be Amano's debut as an author and will include over 240 original illustrations. He also worked as a character designer on the 1985 movie adaptation of Vampire Hunter D, which was one of the first anime movies to be released outside Japan.
In 2006, Hironobu Sakaguchi, the former designer and creator of the Final Fantasy series, recruited Amano and composer Nobuo Uematsu to work on video games at Mistwalker.
Amano's first exhibition, called "Hiten", was held in 1989 at Yurakucho Mullion in Tokyo, Japan. His works have run to gallery exhibitions solely comprising portraits of David Bowie, while his media appearances include an unexpected cameo as Hiroshi in the film New Rose Hotel (1998 US) (see William Gibson).
In 1990, he began to work as an artist and set designer for stage theater. He collaborated with Neil Gaiman on the illustrated novella The Sandman: The Dream Hunters (graph 1999).
Notably, Amano is a genre artist with a strong crossover into "high" art – his exhibitions have proved lucrative for Japanese galleries, and his participation is often sought by stage productions.
Amano remained at Tatsunoko Productions until 1982.
In the early 1980s, Amano concentrated on illustrations for science fiction and fantasy works.
Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography-Beyond the Fantasy
Yoshitaka Amano was born in 1952 in Shizuoka, Japan, the youngest child of a WWII veteran who worked in the traditional Japanese lacquer ware arts.
He also illustrated the Japanese editions of Michael Moorcock's Elric, Corum, Erekosë, and Count Brass serials, and Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. Studios. Amano went pro in 1967 at the age of 15, as the youngest person to be hired by legendary anime studio Tatsunoko, where his first job was on the famous anime series Speed Racer.
He continued to provide promotional and character artwork for the following games and to design their title logos. In 2001, Greg Rucka and Amano collaborated on another comic book tale, Elektra and Wolverine: The Redeemer. (1981)
Foreign works
Entry updated 6 October 2025.
In interviews, however, Amano has stated that he was not pleased with the final product of the movie.
His illustrations begin to be published in collections such as Maten in 1984. He was the character designer for the 2009 Jungle Emperor (Kimba the White Lion) TV special, directed by Gorō Taniguchi, to commemorate both the 50th anniversary of Fuji Television and the 80th anniversary of Osamu Tezuka's birth.
In 2013, Amano collaborated with the Japanese musician Hyde on an art exhibition titled Destiny and Decay: Nippon Evolution.
In 2010, following a small solo art exhibition tour titled "Devaloka" it was announced that Amano had established a film production company, Studio Devaloka, and would be directing a 3D anime titled Zan, with additional projects to be announced in the future.
He was a character designer for anime shows such as Time Bokan, Gatchaman, Tekkaman, and Honeybee Hutch.
In the 1960s, Amano was exposed to Western art styles through comic books, which he claims among his artistic roots.