Range Murata

村田蓮爾

__Doujin Circle:__ PASTA'S ESTAB. [Website](https://www.pseweb.com/) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/Murata_Range) Japanese artist and designer, known for his unique style heavily influenced by art déco. He is best known for his mechanical and character design work on [Last Exile](https://anilist.co/anime/97/Last-Exile/) and [Blue Submarine No. 6](https://anilist.co/anime/1051/Blue-Submarine-No-6/). Initially aspiring to be a car designer, he attended the Osaka University of Art, where he majored in industrial design. However, after realizing the retro-style designs he wanted to work on would be difficult to achieve in real life, he dropped out and instead opted to pursue a career at the videogame company Altus, where he worked as a part-timer since 1993, mostly contributing character designs and illustrations for the fighting game series *Power Instinct* under the alias Range. In 1996, inspired by his coworkers, he left the company to become a freelance illustrator, releasing his first artbook, *LIKE A BALANCE LIFE*, shortly after. Outside of releasing, planning and editing artbooks and comic anthologies (often in collaboration with numerous other artists notable for their dis

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