is a

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

illustrator An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicat ...

and

video game artist Game art design is a subset of game development involving the process of creating the artistic aspects for video games. Video game art design begins in the pre-production phase of creating a video game. Video game artists are visual artists inv ...

from

Hyūga, Miyazaki is a port city in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded on April 1, 1951, with the joint merger of Tomishima Town and Iwawaki Village. , the city has an estimated population of 60,037 making it the 4th largest city in Miyazaki Prefectur ...

. Himukai has contributed as a novel illustrator and as a character design for various video games, including the ''

Etrian Odyssey ''Etrian Odyssey'' is a dungeon crawler role-playing video game series. It is primarily developed and published by Atlus and currently owned by Sega. By 2016, the series had sold a combined total of 1.5 million copies worldwide. Titles Main se ...

'' and ''

Shin Megami Tensei ''Megami Tensei'', marketed internationally as ''Shin Megami Tensei'' (formerly ''Revelations''), is a Japanese media franchise created by Aya Nishitani, Kouji "Cozy" Okada, Ginichiro Suzuki, and Kazunari Suzuki. Primarily developed and publishe ...

'' series.

Works

Novel illustrator

Gargoyle of Yoshinaga House is a Japanese light novel series written by Sennendou Taguchi, following Kazumi Yoshinaga and his normal junior high school life with younger sister Futaba Yoshinaga who won a prize from a lottery of a wolf-like gargoyle nicknamed "Gar-ku ...

(author: Taguchi Sennendō) * Gargoyle Alternative (author: Taguchi Sennendō) * Tamarase (author: Akira Mutsuzuka) * Sekaiju no Meikyuu - Requiem for the things that are leaving (author: Akihiko Ureshino) * Plot Director (author: Yūji Nakazato) *

Slayers is a Japanese light novel series written by Hajime Kanzaka and illustrated by Rui Araizumi. The novels have been serialized in ''Dragon Magazine'' since 1989, before being published into individual volumes. They follow t ...

series (original creator: Hajime Kanzaki, author: Hidehisa Nanbō) ** Slayers 1: Lina to Chimera no Mahō Senshi ** Slayers 2: Lina to Ayashii Madōshitachi

Video game-related

* ''

'' series (2007-present) (

Atlus is a Japanese video game developer, publisher, arcade manufacturer and distribution company based in Tokyo. A subsidiary of Sega, the company is known for video game series such as ''Megami Tensei'', ''Persona'', ''Etrian Odyssey'' and ''Trau ...

) — character design * ''

Kumatanchi is a life simulation game, life simulation video game co-developed for the Nintendo DS by Vanillaware and studio Ashinaga Oji-san. It was published on September 25, 2008 by Dimple Entertainment. The premise and gameplay revolves around the pla ...

'' (2008) (Vanillaware) * '' Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children'' (2011) * '' Nora to Toki no Kōbō: Kiri no Mori no Majo'' (Atlus) * '' Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth'' (2014) (Atlus) — special guest contribution * ''

Fire Emblem Heroes is a free-to-play tactical role-playing game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for Android and iOS. The game is a mobile spin-off of the ''Fire Emblem'' series featuring its characters, and was released on February 2 ...

'' (2017) (

Nintendo is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It develops video games and video game consoles. Nintendo was founded in 1889 as by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produce ...

) — character art (various) * '' A-Train All Aboard! Tourism'' (2021) (

Artdink is a Japanese developer of video games, based in Tsukishima, Tokyo. By far Artdink's biggest international success was the award-winning ''A-Train'' (known in Japan as ''A Ressha de Ikou'', or "Take the A-Train") strategy game released for the ...

) — character design

Adult video game-related

* Ishika to Honori (AZURITE) * Shinohana ( PL+US/Nexton)

Web-related

* Runrun Radio (Runrun Soft)

References

External links

Yuji Himukai's Site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Himukai, Yuji 1980 births Living people Japanese illustrators Video game artists People from Miyazaki Prefecture Artists from Miyazaki Prefecture