The critcally-acclaimed, full-color anthology series featuring the biggest names in anime and manga continues! In ROBOT Volume 8, new series' by Mami Itou ( Street Fighter ), Yusuke Kozaki ( Speed Grapher ), and Kengo Yonekura join the latest chapters of Yoshitoshi ABe's "Wasteland," Shigeki Maeshima's "Dragonfly," and Shin Nagasawa's "Sedouka."
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 Dieselpunk 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, including having done the character designs for the 2003 PlayStation 2 game Spy Fiction.
He has published more than a dozen books of his work, some of the most notable being rule and futurhythm. He is also voted "Best Artist of the Year" 2006 in the Seiun Award.