Huke

huke is a Japanese illustrator who is best known for creating the original character, Black★Rock Shooter, and working with the doujin group supercell. His character was the inspiration for Supercell's lead member ryo, who wanted to use huke's design to create a song and music video. Eventually this collaboration led to many opportunities for both parties, as the universe of Black★Rock Shooter eventually became an OVA and spawned many merchandise releases.

History
huke is a graduate from an animation college. His career as a professional illustrator began on a game company and was involved in character design. He eventually resigned and became freelance, creating original concepts from his experience as a professional. huke soon became involved in certain illustrations based on the game Metal Gear Solid, and to enable to identify himself over the Web, he registered in Pixiv and he created a personal blog.

On December 2007, he submitted an illustration of Black★Rock Shooter. This inspired ryo from Supercell, and a song became the product of the band's first contact with Black★Rock Shooter.

Aside from Black★Rock Shooter, huke also worked on the visual novel Steins;Gate, which is produced by 5pb. and Nitroplus. The game also became popular amongst fans, and an anime adaptation has been released based on the visual novel.

List of Works

 * Metal Gear Solid (Booklet manga instructions, Illustrations)
 * Metal Gear Solid 3 (Booklet manga instructions)
 * Metal Gear Solid 4 (Character Design)
 * Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops (Character Design, Supporting Character Design, etc)
 * Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops + (Added Soldier design)
 * METAL GEAR AC!D2 (Web Manga Illustration)
 * Steins;Gate (Original Character Designer)
 * Black★Rock Shooter (Original Character Design, Series Creator, Originator)
 * Fate/EXTRA (Treasure Designer)
 * supercell single "Utakata Hanabi/Hoshi ga Matataku Konna Yoru ni" (CD Jacket illustration)
 * EreGY (Cover Illustration)

Trivia

 * huke's birthday is on the 20th of April.
 * He is a member of Team Fullmecha (official site).