Kouhaku Kuroboshi

Kouhaku Kuroboshi (黒星 紅白, Kuroboshi Kōhaku, born 1974), also known as Takeshi Iizuka (飯塚 武史, Iizuka Takeshi), is a Japanese illustrator and character designer. He is from Kanagawa Prefecture and lives in Fukuoka Prefecture. He is probably best known for his frequent collaborations with writer Keiichi Sigsawa as the illustrator/character designer for the Kino's Journey and Allison series, as well as for several other authors and game developers.

Works

Illustration

• Kino's Journey
• Gakuen Kino
• Allison
• Lillia and Treize
• Meg and Seron
• Heisa no System
• Hokago Taima Roku
• Aquarian Age Novel
• Drama CD Kosumosu no Sora ni
• Ocha ga Hakobarete Kuru Made ni 〜A Book At Cafe〜 (January 2010, ISBN 4-04-868286-5)
• Yoru ga Hakobarete Kuru Made ni 〜A Book in A Bed〜 (December 2010, ISBN 4-04-870235-1)
• Album cover and booklet for Yoru ga Hakobarete Kuru Made ni 〜A Song in A Bed〜 by angela (January 2011)

Character design

• Summon Night series
• Sky Girls
• Shigofumi: Letters from the Departed
• One Off
• Sacred Blaze
• World Conquest Zvezda Plot

Artbooks

• Kuroboshi Kouhaku, The Beautiful World (March 2003, ISBN 4-8402-2296-7)
• Coadventure (December 2005, ISBN 4-08-873759-8)
• Kuroboshi Kouhaku Gashu noir (April 2015, ISBN 978-4-04869146-8)

See also

• Keiichi Sigsawa

External links

• (Japanese) GRANADA LEVEL9 (Kouhaku Kuroboshi's blog)
• Kouhaku Kuroboshi at Anime News Network's encyclopedia