{"id":28642,"date":"2024-03-18T18:29:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T09:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=28642"},"modified":"2024-03-18T18:30:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T09:30:34","slug":"tales-series-dragon-quest-illustrator-mutsumi-inomata-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/tales-series-dragon-quest-illustrator-mutsumi-inomata-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales of series, Dragon Quest illustrator Mutsumi Inomata passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On March 18, it was announced that character designer and illustrator Mutsumi Inomata has died. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/inomatanekomata\/status\/1769574473504883081?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a post<\/a> by her sister on the illustrator\u2019s official X account, Inomata passed away on March 10, aged 63. Although she worked on a broad range of titles across various mediums, she is probably best known overseas for being the main character designer on Bandai Namco\u2019s prolific &#8220;Tales of&#8221; RPG series.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her work on the Tales of series began with 1997\u2019s Tales of Destiny and ended with 2016\u2019s Tales of Berseria. During this time, she did character designs for around a dozen games in the series including Tales of Eternia and Tales of Xillia (pictured above). Inomata\u2019s other video game-related credits included her costume designs for characters in Tekken 5, Tekken 6 and Tekken Tag Tournament 2. She also did the cover artwork for Japanese novels based on the popular RPG Dragon Quest. Square Enix\u2019s official game guide X account gave their condolences.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u3044\u306e\u307e\u305f\u3080\u3064\u307f\u5148\u751f\u3054\u901d\u53bb\u306e\u5831\u306b\u63a5\u3057\u3001\u7de8\u96c6\u90e8\u4e00\u540c\u3001\u8b39\u3093\u3067\u54c0\u60bc\u306e\u610f\u3092\u8868\u3057\u3001\u3054\u51a5\u798f\u3092\u5fc3\u304b\u3089\u304a\u7948\u308a\u3044\u305f\u3057\u307e\u3059\u3002<br>1989\u5e74\u306b\u767a\u58f2\u3057\u305f\u5c0f\u8aac\u30c9\u30e9\u30b4\u30f3\u30af\u30a8\u30b9\u30c8\u306b\u59cb\u307e\u308a\u3001\u6570\u591a\u304f\u306e\u7d20\u6575\u306a\u30a4\u30e9\u30b9\u30c8\u3067\u3053\u306e\u4e16\u754c\u306b\u5f69\u308a\u3092\u6dfb\u3048\u3066\u3044\u305f\u3060\u304d\u3001\u672c\u5f53\u306b\u3042\u308a\u304c\u3068\u3046\u3054\u3056\u3044\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rebvJo8Mwi\">pic.twitter.com\/rebvJo8Mwi<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u30b9\u30af\u30a8\u30cb\u516c\u5f0f\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u30ac\u30a4\u30c9 (@SQEX_GAMEGUIDE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SQEX_GAMEGUIDE\/status\/1769584184086122691?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Post translation:<em> <\/em><\/strong><em>In response to the news of Mutsumi Inomata\u2019s passing, all of us at the editorial department would like to express our deepest condolences. Thank you very much for bringing color to this world with your many wonderful illustrations, such as the one for the novel version of Dragon Quest that was released in 1989. The last thing you drew for us was the box art illustration for the novels when they were reissued for Dragon Quest\u2019s 30<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary. Once again, we would like to express our respect and gratitude for your many accomplishments over the years. Please rest peacefully.<\/em>\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Inomata made diverse contributions to anime, including as animation director for City Hunter, design coordinator on Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and original character designer on Brain Powerd.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Character designer and illustrator Mutsumi Inomata, who worked on the Tales of Series, Dragon Quest, Tekken and City Hunter, has died aged 63<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":28648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[73,17],"class_list":["post-28642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anime","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tales of series, Dragon Quest illustrator Mutsumi Inomata passes away - 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