is a Japanese

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and character designer. She began her career with the video game company

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. During her time at Compile, she designed the characters for the company's DiskStation games '' Apple Sauce: Anoko to Natsu Matsuri'' and ''

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'', and illustrated numerous projects for the company. She later left Compile and became a freelance illustrator, working on numerous projects, including illustrating

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s and designing games for companies such as

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. In 2005, she provided the character designs to the

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series '' Zettai Shōnen''.

Works

Anime

*'' Zettai Shōnen'' (2005) (original character design) *''

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'' (2012) (original character design)

Games

*''

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'' (1999) (character design, key animation, CG) *'' Chocolate Kiss'' (2002) (character design, key illustrations) *'' Reveal Fantasia'' (2002) (character design, illustrations) *'' Kyō no Wanko'' (2003) (character design, illustrations) *'' Riviera: The Promised Land'' (2004) (character design) *'' Yggdra Union: We'll Never Fight Alone'' (2006) (character design) *''

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'' (2007) (character design) *'' Summon Night: Twin Age'' (2007) (character design) *''

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'' (2008) (character design) *'' Hexyz Force'' (2009) (character design) *''

Unchained Blades ''Unchained Blades'', titled in Japan, is a 2011 dungeon crawler role-playing video game developed by FuRyu and published by Xseed Games for the Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Portable. Gameplay The game is played as a dungeon crawler role-playin ...

'' (2011) (character design) *'' Madou Monogatari: Fia and the Mysterious School'' (2024) (character design)

Novels

*'' Duan Surk II'' (2002-2011) (illustrations) *'' Orusu Banshee'' (2006-2007) (illustrations) *''

'' (2011-2016) (illustrations)

Other

*''

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'' (cover, frontispiece illustration, ''Dengeki

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'', cover) * Sources:

References

External links

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