Range Murata

Renji "Range" Murata (村田 蓮爾 "Murata Renji", born October 2, 1968 in Osaka) 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".

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". He is also voted "Best Artist of the Year" 2006 in the Seiun Award.

Works

Anime

*"The Animatrix (Second Renaissance)" [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1711]
*"Blue Submarine No. 6"
*"Last Exile"
*"Mardock Scramble" (cancelled) [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6415]
*"SoltyRei"
*"Table and Fishman" [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=5338]
* Shangri-La [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10246]

Video Games

*The "Power Instinct" series ("Goketsuji Ichizoku" in Japan)
*"Spy Fiction"
*"Wachenröder"
*"Taisen Hot Gimmick"

Printed Works

*Artbooks
**"Like a Balance Life"
**"futurhythm"
**"Form|Code"
**"robot"
**"Bitch's Life"

*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"

External links

* [http://www.pseweb.com/ PSE Web]
* [http://longrangebullet.info/ long range bullet, a Range Murata fansite]
* [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=11265 Range Murata at the Anime News Network Encyclopedia]
* [http://dmpbooks.com/titles?n=15 Range Murata's Robot]
* [http://liheliso.com/buzz/archive/00000401.htm Range Murata July 2005 Interview at J LHLS]