Ultra Jump’s 10th anniversary cover has received a particularly ravishing illustration by renowned illustrator Range Murata, who has lately been illustrating their covers.
Sadly, the magazine itself is severely lacking in scantily clad retro-futuristic girl content…
delicous l♥♥i
He’s taken realism in anime-styled art right into uncanny valley. The more I look at it, the more it looks like a real girl in a bikini wearing a huge l♥♥i head.
This reminds me to some “Last Exile” artwork I saw several years ago.
Oh, f♥♥k! Range Murata was Character Main Designer for Last Exile…
I love Murata’s work. I have the majority of the doujinshi artbooks he’s released, including the stupidly well-presented Last Exile books, and Azure, the Blue Sub 6 book. As well as most of the Robot books so far, form|code, and one of the two issues of Character Design Bible he did the cover for.
I hadn’t heard he was doing covers for UJ though. :O
I know I should not like this…..
but I do.