Shimada, Humikane

About

Birth place: Okayama Prefecture, Japan Humikane Shimada is credited as the original designer behind the popular mecha musume genre. He takes combinations of bishoujo and war machines and made it his well-recognized art form. So far, besides mecha musume, he has designed toy designs for the Busou Shinki toy line by Konami and the popular anime titles Sky Girls and Strike Witches, the former also from Konami. Twitter: @humikane