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Kinu Nishimura (西村 キヌ, Nishimura Kinu, born sometime in 1969 in the Hyogo Prefecture) is a Japanese illustrator, character designer, and game creator. She is mainly known for being one of Capcom's main designers. Her real name is unknown -as her alias originated from her mother's maiden name- and she is affectionately referred to as "Kinu-sensei".

History[]

During her first year in middle school, she cleaned up Tomonori Kogawa's drawings for Combat Mecha Xabungle. She decided to pursue art for her career during her second year. While she was attending the Kyoto University of Art & Design, she touched up illustrations done by Akiman (who was a big inspiration to her) for Final Fight and Magic Sword. She was hired by Capcom in 1991 and was one of the first artists in the company to illustrate primarily with Photoshop.

Works[]

Capcom games[]

Girls Of Capcom

Key artwork of Girls of Capcom.

Other Capcom works[]

  • Studio Bent - All About Capcom - cover, miscellaneous illustrations
  • Capcom Design Works - published by Famitsu - cover, miscellaneous illustrations
  • Vampire Graphic File - cover, miscellaneous illustrations

Other games[]


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Anime[]


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Manga[]

Miscellaneous[]


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Gallery[]

Character and group artwork[]

Trivia[]

  • Several of her illustrations have been complied into artbooks or adapted for figurine collections.[1]
  • Her bloodtype is A.[citation needed]
  • Kinu has stated that she is most proud of the work she has done for Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara.[citation needed]
  • Kinu has mentioned in an interview that she was obsessed with the works of Hirohiko Araki (specifically JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) while working during her time at Capcom[citation needed] (the influence is shown through Rose from Street Fighter, Santana from Cyberbots, and Moriah/Thief from Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara).
  • Her all-time favorite artist is Jun Suemi.[citation needed] She is also a big fan of the manga artist Kazuhiko Shimamoto.[citation needed]

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