Staff
Yuki Ooshima
- Native
- 大嶋優木
- Language
- Japanese
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Born
- 1974
- Years active
- 1999–present
Yuki Ooshima is a Japanese freelance toy designer and occasional manga artist and writer. He's designed various figurines for Takara's Transformers lines and wrote two different manga series for the franchise. Prior to his official work on the franchise, he published several Transformers doujinshi, including a crossover between the brand and Machine Robo.
His art is characterized by its high level of mechanical detail, as well as drawing Transformers based directly on their toys with great accuracy. This eventually led to him doing toy design work for Masterpiece Transformers. In constrast, his humans are mostly bishoujo and loli characters.
From 1999 he started working as a freelancer in charge of figure prototype production at Kaiyodo. Widely recognized as the sculptor for Takara's Rikavine (2003) and the weekly magazine "Weekly Watashi no Onii-chan " (2004 ).
In 2005, he was in charge of producing the figure "Shin-Yokohama Alina" attached to the official catalog of the exhibition "Otaku: Personality = Space = City" ( cf. Kaichiro Morikawa ) at the Japan Pavilion of the Venice Biennale. He also drew a catalog cover illustration for Comic Market 2006 summer Wonder Festival official goods "Wonda-chan Loves EVANGELION".
