Yutaka Izubuchi (出渕 裕, Izubuchi Yutaka, born August 12, 1958 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese anime designer and director. Izubuchi is credited for designing costumes, characters, and creatures, but most of his designs are mechanical (both robots and other vehicles). Izubuchi drew the covers of the original seven Record of Lodoss War novels, the two spin-off novels High Elf Forest: Deedlit's Tale and The Black Knight, as well as black-and-white page illustrations for all of those novels except The Black Knight. He also provided artwork for the first two novels in the Next Generation sequel series, Inheritors of the Flame and Horror of the Forest of Darkness, but did not illustrate for Legend of Lodoss or Crystania. He is also credited as the draft character designer for the 1990 OVA anime, since he originally designed most of the characters appearing in it. He also illustrated the cover art for the first volume of the 2013 re-release of the Record of Lodoss War novels.
Yutaka Izubuchi's works for Record of Lodoss War have been collected in several art books, including ANAM, published in 1999. Other works of Izubuchi include directing the RahXephon series.
External Links[]
- Scans of ANAM illustration book at the Internet Archive
Works[]
- Record of Lodoss War (1988-1993)
Provided cover art and inside artwork for all seven volumes. - High Elf Forest: Deedlit’s Tale (1995)
provided cover art and inside artwork. - The Black Knight (1995)
provided cover art and inside artwork (one image). - Record of Lodoss War Next Generation (1998-2006)
provided cover art and inside illustrations for two prefaces and volume 1. The second preface and volume 1 were also released with artwork from Haruhiko Mikimoto, who also did volumes 2-6. - Record of Lodoss War: The Grey Witch (2013 edition)
provided cover art. The re-releases of volumes 2-7 had cover artwork by Kim Dong-hyuk.
Lodoss artwork[]
A selection of artwork made by Yutaka Izubuchi