The acclaimed full color anthology title continues! Compiled and edited by Range Murata (Last Exile, Blue Submarine No. 6), this quarterly series features anime and manga's most skilled creators. Experience gorgeous stories by Yoshitoshi Abe (Serial Experiments Lain), Kouji Ogata (Boogiepop Phantom), and over a dozen more of Japan's finest artists.
Range Murata (村田 蓮爾 Murata Renji, born October 2, 1968, in Osaka) is a Japanese artist and designer, known for his unique style combining Dieselpunk and Japanese anime elements. He is best known for his conceptual design work on anime series Last Exile and Blue Submarine No. 6.
He began his career in the early 1990s doing design work for video games, including having done the character designs for the 2003 PlayStation 2 game Spy Fiction.
He has published more than a dozen books of his work, some of the most notable being rule and futurhythm. He is also voted "Best Artist of the Year" 2006 in the Seiun Award.