Katsuya Terada (Terada Katsuya, born December 7, 1963), is a Japanese illustrator and cartoonist from the town of Tamano, Okayama. He has Type A blood. His alias is Rakugakingu ("Doodle King").

Biography

Katsuya Terada is probably best known in the United States as the character-designer for the animated film Blood: The Last Vampire. He has also done work related to American comics, such as Iron Man and Hellboy (one of his illustrations was used for an official statuette of Hellboy).

Terada has defined himself as a "rakugaki" artist, more of a philosophy than a style of drawing, in which one draws a little everywhere, all the time, without thinking too much, on notebooks etc. He is a very prolific artist; one of his collections of sketches numbers more than 1000 pages, appropriately called Rakuga King.

He has done very little group-drawn work (an exception being the manga Saiyukiden Daienou (Monkey King)), his principal activities being illustration and character design.

His use of CG tools is integrated very well in his illustrations, giving his work a vivid and rich appearance. Most distinctive, though, are the female faces in his work, which could be described as “cute”, but with a dangerous or elusive character to the eyes. He has admitted various influences on his work, particularly European ones, like Jean Giraud (a.k.a. Moebius) and the magazine Métal Hurlant which he has said gave him a taste for strong women who are slightly stripped.

Illustration Collections:

• Work Jam Licensed Detective Saburo Jinguuji
• Katsuya Terada & Stapa & Gabin
• Busin 0 – Character & World Guide
• Paint Visual Works Poster Book
• Shashou
• Lemni3003 Imada Minu Megamitachi E\
• Terada Katsuya Presents Rakuda Ga Warau
• Painter bon!
• Rakuga King
• Bitch's Life Illustration File
• Terada Katsuya Poster Book
• Terra's Cover Girls
• Zenbu – The Complete Works
• Saiyukiden Daienou (Monkey King) Vol.1
• Devil Man 1999
• Virtua Fighter 2 - Ten Stories
• Chotto Furukute Ii Kuruma Nya Norazu Ni Irarenai!

Works Published in English:

• The Monkey King Volume 1

Films:

• Blood: The Last Vampire, character design
• Cutie Honey: Concept artist, costume design
• Devilman: Concept artist
• Godzilla: Final Wars: Designer: Monster X

Video games: Character and World Design:

• Busin 0 PS2
• Sangokushi PS2
• Street Golfer PS2
• Bishin densetsu Zoku Super Famicom
• Battle K-Road Arcade
• Fallen Angels/Daraku Tenshi Arcade
• Ground Divide - Sword of Darkness Arcade
• Virtua Fighter Remix

Source: Wikipedia. There is more information there.

Link's to other information:

EX: English interview with Terada at the Comic Con.

Catsuka: Interview in french with some of his works.

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