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Akira Yasuda (安田 朗, Yasuda Akira?) (born July 21, 1964) is a Japanese illustrator, animator, character designer, game designer and mecha designer, who works under the pen name Akiman. He worked for Capcom from 1985 until 2003 and is currently a freelancer.
History
Works for Capcom
- 1942 - (NES box art)
- Side Arms Hyper Dyne - (original artwork)
- Forgotten Worlds - (game designer)
- Final Fight - (planner)
- Street Fighter II - (planner, illustration)
- Captain Commando (planner)
- Magic Sword
- Adventure Quiz: Capcom World
- Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors
- Darkstalkers 3 (character designer)
- X-Men: Children of the Atom
- Red Earth (original artwork)
- Street Fighter Alpha 2
- Street Fighter Alpha 3 - (character designer)
- X-Men vs. Street Fighter (character designer)
- Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter (original artwork)
- Street Fighter III (original artwork)
- Street Fighter III 3rd Strike - (character design)
- Final Fight Revenge
- Tech Romancer (design supervisor)
- Star Gladiator (character designer)
- Plasma Sword (character designer)
- Power Stone (character designer)
- Power Stone 2
Related Works
- Street Fighter: The Animated Series (original concept and designs)
- Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U (promotional guest art; Ryu's poster design)
Gallery
Street Fighter II series
Character art
Guile
Sagat
Zangief
Promotional art
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U promotional art
Trivia
- He idolizes the works of Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Frank Frazetta, and N. C. Wyeth.
- He is commonly believed to be the reason Chun-Li has so many more outfits in Street Fighter V than any other character, as there have even been updates to the game to add some of his outfits for her right after new ones have been recently released.