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Overview
Fumikane Shimada (島田 フミカネ, Shimada Fumikane) is a Japanese illustrator and character designer born on January 26, 1974 in Okayama Prefecture.
He first gained attention with mecha musume genre, a series of anthropomorphic weapons with cyborg-like designs that fuse mecha and girls, and has been a sparkplug for this genre in recent years.
He is also a friend of Takayuki Yanase and Kanetake Ebikawa, with whom he sometimes assists in the coloring and finishing work of his illustrations.
His self-portrait and trademark is an octopus-shaped alien.
Participating Works
- Mecha Musume (2005-) ... character design
- Busou Shinki (2007-) ... Design for the first series (Arnval, Strahf) and many others.
- Strike Witches/World Witches ... original work, character design
- Sky Girls ... character design, sonic diver design
- Eulen Spiegel ... character design draft
- Dariusburst ... character design
- Girls und Panzer ... character design draft
- Kantai Collection ... character design for Taiho, Bismarck and other characters (see also Fumikane Fleet)
- Japan Self-Defense Forces Okayama Provincial Cooperation Office ... image character design
- Frame Arms Girl ... character design
- Gundam Build Fighters/Try ... design cooperation, Super Fumina mecha design
- Alice Gear Aegis ... character design and character supervision (incidentally, Strike Witches and Dariusburst, mentioned above, also collaborated with the game)
- New Sakura Wars ... character design for the Berlin Combat Revue
- Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE ... mechanical design (Mobile Doll May)
- Fate/Grand Order ... character design for Galatea
Related Articles
Mecha Girl Robo Girl Mecha Musume
External Links
Japanese
"digital bs tuners" (website run by him)
