Range Murata

Range Murata is one of those illustrators where you land on a single piece of his work and just stop scrolling — there's a quality to his linework and character designs that feels almost impossibly deliberate, like every curve was thought about twice before being committed to paper. Born in Osaka in 1968, trained at Osaka University of Arts, he's a career lifer in the truest sense: illustrator, manga artist, character designer, all rolled into one guy who clearly decided early on that the work speaks for itself. He keeps a low profile for someone with his level of craft, but that feels right — artists like him don't need the noise. The closer he gets to his sixties, the more I suspect the work only gets sharper. Quiet, precise, and quietly formidable.

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Range Murata is a Japanese illustrator, manga artist, and character designer born on October 2, 1968, in Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. He studied at Osaka University of Arts, which formed the foundation of his visual career. Known for his distinctive stylized artwork, he has worked across illustration, manga, and character design. He maintains an active online presence through his official website and social media.

Name (English)

Range Murata

Name (Japanese)

村田蓮爾

Reading

むらた れんじ

Born

October 2, 1968 (age 58)

Origin

Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Illustrator / Manga Artist / Designer / Character Designer / Book Illustrator

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Monkey

University

Osaka University of Arts

• Official sitehttps://www.pseweb.com/index.html
• Xhttps://x.com/Murata_Range
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%91%E7%94%B0%E8%93%AE%E7%88%BE
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1335548

Tags

• From Osaka Prefecture
• Illustrator
• Manga Artist
• Designer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.