Naru Nanao is the pseudonym of a Japanese artist from Okinawa, Japan.
15 Facts About Naru Nanao
Naru Nanao is a free illustrator and thus is not affiliated with one single company; she is primarily a character designer.
Naru Nanao began working with video game developers in 2000, but she is most well known for providing original character design for three heroines in the original DC: Da Capo visual novel by Circus released in 2002.
Naru Nanao is the supervisor of her dojinshi circle known as "Ice and Chocolate".
Naru Nanao even provided the front-cover illustration for the Comiket 70 catalog for August 2006.
Naru Nanao has worked on numerous adult visual novels due to her status as a free illustrator and not being affiliated with one single company; she is primarily a character designer.
In 2001, Naru Nanao worked on three games for the company Circus which were: Infanteria, Suika, and Archimedes no Wasuremono.
Also in 2001, Naru Nanao worked on her first all-ages game called Quiz Saitama Rengo no Yabo by Saitama Ringo.
In 2002, Naru Nanao provided character design in Circus' first DC: Da Capo game for three heroines: Nemu Asakura, Sakura Yoshino, and Kotori Shirakawa.
In 2006, Naru Nanao started working with Minori on their game series Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two by providing female character design.
In 2006, Naru Nanao teamed up with Naoki Hisaya to produce the original series Sola.
Naru Nanao provided the original character design for the project which was used as a template for the character design in the Sola anime and manga series.
In 2007, Naru Nanao started working as the character designer on the reader-participation game Ohime-sama Navigation being serialized in the Japanese bishojo magazine Dengeki G's Magazine, published by ASCII Media Works.
Naru Nanao worked with Tryfirst as the character designer on the Nintendo DS visual novel Majo ni Naru, released in Japan in 2009.
Naru Nanao's characters have large, wide eyes with a certain amount of sharpness, as opposed to being more rounded, which are widely spaced apart on the face.