Yoshitaka Amano

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 bestselling novel series such as The Guin Saga and Vampire Hunter D He is also known for his commissioned illustrations for the popular videogame franchise Final Fantasy