Publisher Gakken recently announced the June 26 JST release of MIA, a new art book featuring the illustrations of the late Mutsumi Inomata, who passed away last March. This is Inomata’s first posthumous art book.
Original illustrations of cats and girls are described as the focus of the 100-page softcover book. The included works range from drawings that are making their art book debut and relatively recent creation to promotional art and works and roughs that Inomata had been working on late in life. Some are popular illustrations that have been featured before in previous books.
MIA is priced at 2,860 yen (~US$19.39) with tax included. The page dimensions are 21 cm x 26 cm. Pre-orders began on March 10 JST.
Inomata drew the character designs for anime like 1983’s Plawres Sanshirou, 1985’s Leda: The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko, 1986’s Windaria, and 1998’s Tenjouhen: Utsunomiko. She was also original character designer on Future GPX Cyber Formula, co-chief animator on Sengoku Majin Goshogun, co-design cooperator on Mobile Suit Gundam Seed and Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny, and uniform draft designer for Mai-Hime, among other credits.
Inomata is also known for her involvement with the Tales of JRPG franchise, contributing character designs to entries like Tales of Destiny, Tales of Graces f, Tales of Xillia, Tales of Berseria, and more.
Source: Press release
