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.

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 57)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Monkey (申)

Origin

Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

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

University

Osaka University of Arts

Motto

Private

• 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

Tags

• From Osaka Prefecture
• Illustrator
• Manga Artist
• Designer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.