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AYAMI
KOJIMA
What
can I say about the merits of this charming japanese illustrator
? I think the few pictures presented in this gallery answer this
question well and justify the presence of her talented artwork
on my homepage. Instead of spending too much time studying her
brilliant and amazing high skilled style, I will present you quickly
the part of her production that I know, it's not an easy thing
to do because her works are hard to find in France and even on
the worldwide web.
As an illustrator she must have worked (and still work) on illustrations
for novels collections or things like that. So I can't say the
origins for some illustrations, perhaps is she making manga too
? For the novels I found on the net three covers of a samurai
novel collection (it seems to be), novels are by MIHO MIZUNO,
I have never seen these illustrations before since their discovery
so I present them to you.
Another
part of AYAMI KOJIMA's work is less confidential for us ; her
design and illustrations work for video game. Nevertheless, one
more time, it's hard to purchase all these games in Europe or
even get informations (japanese is a rather difficult language)
; I counted one wargame in medieval Japan on playstation by KOEI
(the samurai illustration below); a card battle game on wonderswan
whose hero seems to be the swordman below in the gallery. Another
Saturn and playstation game is entirely designed by AYAMI KOJIMA,
it's SOLDNERSCHILD (which seems to be direct descendant of TERRA
PHANTASTICA on Saturn designed by AKIHIRO YAMADA [Ho Ho ?! ],
a look to introduction, scenario, etc is enough to be convinced...).
Obviously,
the best is yet to come, her work which is famous all around the
world is the design for playstation and Saturn game DRACULA X
: NOCTURNE IN THE MOONLIGHT from KONAMI also known as CASTLEVANIA
X : SYMPHONY OF THE NIGHT for the rest of the world, the game
and booklet include splendids illustrations and a mini manga story
of the game prologue. This lead me to the latest known work of
AYAMI KOJIMA, character design and jacket cover of the new edition
of the CASTLEVANIA/DRACULA from computer Sharp X68000 to playstation
(CASTLEVANIA CHRONICLES), one of my favorite version is thus renovated
by one of my favorite artist.
To
see more AYAMI KOJIMA illustrations, I recommend you the
Amy's little world where you can find a larger art gallery,
with everything about DRACULA X and some beautiful winamp skins
AYAMI KOJIMA . As regards the new edition of DRACULA / CASTLEVANIA
X68000 I recommend you the KONAMI page on the subject (click here
if japanese letters don't scare you) and if you don't know about
X68000, the
X68000 Games Pile will answer your questions and will allow
you to test this great machine through emulation (but since a
little time, the site has become not free for games download,
let's have a look even so), to discover great games particularly
in 2 dimensional shooting game, and of course the inescapable
DRACULA (tough game but so good).
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