20 Facts About Katsuya Terada

Katsuya Terada, is a Japanese illustrator and cartoonist from the town of Tamano, Okayama.

When Katsuya Terada was fifteen years old, he discovered the work of French artist Moebius and the Japanese manga artist and creator of Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo.

The work of Moebius encouraged Katsuya Terada to develop his own aesthetic stylized less along anime lines, but rather more realistic in its approach.

Katsuya Terada began his career as a manga artist and illustrator.

Katsuya Terada's illustrations served to supplement player experiences of the NES games, due to the early system's limited capacity to show details on a screen.

Katsuya Terada then worked on the box art for the Japanese edition of the video game Prince of Persia for the SNES, as well as character designs for Virtua Fighter 2, SEGA's 1994 follow-up to the influential Virtua Fighter, embracing 3D designs.

Katsuya Terada has undertaken work related to American comics, such as Iron Man and Hellboy.

Katsuya Terada made additional contributions to early issues of Nintendo Power, including a special edition strategy guide for Dragon Warrior and artwork for The Legend of Zelda.

Katsuya Terada was in charge of the book cover and illustrations for the Kimaira series written by Baku Yumemakura, and was in charge of cover design and illustrations for Garoden, Shin Majugari, and Yamigarishi, as well.

Katsuya Terada has defined himself as a "rakugaki" artist, which he invokes more in terms of a philosophy than a specific style of drawing: he draws a little bit everywhere, all the time, on notebooks and other surfaces without thinking too much.

Katsuya Terada is a very prolific artist with one of his sketch collections numbering more than 1000 pages, and appropriately titled RakugaKing.

Katsuya Terada has done very little group-drawn work, his principal activities being illustration and character design.

Katsuya Terada has admitted various influences on his work, particularly European ones, like Jean Giraud and the magazine Metal hurlant which he has said gave him a taste for strong, scantily-clad women.

Katsuya Terada was invited to create variant cover for Geof Darrow's American comic series Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin issue 5, published by Dark Horse.

Katsuya Terada's first portfolio art book, Zenbu, was published in Japan in 1999 by Kodansha; it is a 300 pages collection of character and concept designs.

In 2003, Katsuya Terada was chosen as one of 25 artists to rework and release twelve pairs of the Nike Dunk sneaker as part of Nike's traveling White Dunk Competition.

In 2014, Katsuya Terada published his artbook Erotic Engineering, exploring his personal brand of mixing pin-up style images of women with machinery, including small captions giving insight to the over-eighty illustrations.

Katsuya Terada has shown work in gallery settings throughout Japan and Taiwan for many years.

In 2017, Katsuya Terada's work was included in a major group show curated by Takashi Murakami and Juxtapoz Magazine Editor-in-Chief Evan Pricco titled Juxtapoz x Superflat at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

At Gallery House Maya in Aoyama, Tokyo, Katsuya Terada held a 2020 exhibition of 19 new pencil illustrations titled The Monster and the Boy.