Name
Yoshitaka Amano
Known For
Visual Effects
Birthday
1952-03-26 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan
Biography
Yoshitaka Amano is a Japanese artist, character designer, illustrator and a theater and film scenic designer and costume designer. He first came into prominence in the late 1960s working on the anime adaptation of Speed Racer. Amano later became the creator of iconic and influential characters such as Gatchaman, Tekkaman: The Space Knight, Hutch the Honeybee and Casshan. In 1982 he went independent and became a freelance artist, finding success as an illustrator for numerous authors, and worked on best-selling novel series, such as The Guin Saga and Vampire Hunter D. He is also known for his commissioned illustrations for the popular video-game franchise Final Fantasy.
Known For
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In a far-future time ruled by the supernatural, a young girl requests the help of a vampir...
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Presented in the form of a feverish love dream, 1001 Nights is the first and only installm...
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The crew of an interplanetary starship fights for survival after an alien force takes cont...
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A corporate raider and his henchman use a chanteuse to lure a scientific genius away from ...
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The year is 2001 and the criminals have taken over Centinel City. The Police have lost con...
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Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki's same-titled short story collection, Ten...
- 1999 New Rose Hotel as Hiroshi
- 2006 Fantascope 'Tylostoma' as Narrator
- 2020 Mucha: The Story of an Artist Who Created a Style as Self - Artist
- 2025 I Love Lucca Comics & Games as Sé stesso
- 2023 ANIME MANGA EXPLOSION ( 1 episode ) as Self - Illustrator and Character Designer
- 2020 High Score ( 2 episodes ) as Self
