The official English Twitter account for Good Smile Company announced on Tuesday that it will bring illustrator huke to this year’s Anime Expo as a guest. The artist will be present at Good Smile Company‘s July 8 panel during the event to discuss a new project.
The illustrator huke is perhaps best known for the Black Rock Shooter franchise, which began from an illustration of the eponymous character he posted on pixiv in December 2007. The illustration inspired a song of the same title by supercell using the Hatsune Miku Vocaloid, and later spawned a 2010 OVA and a 2012 television anime, as well as spinoff manga, games, and figures depicting the character. The artist is also known for providing the original character designs for the Steins;Gatefranchise, and illustrating art for the franchise.
This year’s Anime Expo will take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center from July 5 to July 8, with a pre-show event on July 4. (Source: ANN)
huke is a Japanese illustrator who is best known for creating the original character Black★Rock Shooter and working with the Japanese music group supercell. His career as a professional illustrator began when he was involved as a character designer at a game company. He eventually resigned and became freelance, creating original concepts from his experience as a professional. huke soon became involved in certain illustrations based on the game Metal Gear Solid, and to enable and identify himself over the internet, he registered on Pixiv and created a personal blog. On December 2007, he submitted an illustration of Black★Rock Shooter. This inspired ryo, the leader of supercell, and a song became the product of the band’s first contact with Black★Rock Shooter. Aside from Black★Rock Shooter, huke also worked on the visual novel Steins;Gate, which was produced by 5pb. and Nitroplus. (Source: MAL)
List of Works
- Metal Gear Solid (Booklet manga instructions, Illustrations)
- Metal Gear Solid 3 (Booklet manga instructions)
- Metal Gear Solid 4 (Character Design)
- Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops (Character Design, Supporting Character Design, etc)
- Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops + (Added Soldier design)
- METAL GEAR AC!D2 (Web Manga Illustration)
- Steins;Gate (Original Character Designer)
- Black★Rock Shooter (Original Character Design, Series Creator, Originator)
- Fate/EXTRA (Treasure Designer)
- supercell single “Utakata Hanabi/Hoshi ga Matataku Konna Yoru ni” (CD Jacket illustration)
- EreGY (Cover Illustration)
- Haganai (End Card Illustration)
- Oreimo (End Card Illustration)
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