Hidetsugu Yoshioka
Hidetsugu Yoshioka (吉岡 英嗣 Yoshioka Hidetsugu) is a Japanese illustrator. He has produced various pieces of Transformers artwork for Takara since the late '80s and has worked steadily for the line in all its incarnations ever since, continuing to produce mini-comics and other promotional artwork to this day. Outside of Transformers, Yoshioka has also illustrated story pages and comics for Takara's incarnation of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lines: Super Mutant Turtles and Metal Mutant Turtles. Recently he became a mecha illustrator for the card game Zillions of Enemy X.
Yoshioka's style is heavily influenced by American comic book art. Beginning with Generation 2, Yoshioka adapted his style to mimic that of Derek Yaniger, a style he continues to use that has since become his visual trademark. Further strengthening his bond with American comics, the majority of his pack-in comics, despite being released exclusively in Japan, read from left to right like a Western comic.
Comics
[edit]- PDTF Comic
- MC Axis pack-in comics
- Robots in Disguise Vol. 3 Japanese cover
Transformers G-2
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- "Hybrid Style Convoy Black Version"
- "64 Cybertron Urban Defense Robot GADEP"
- "Destron Leader Megatron Black Ver."
- "Destron Aerospace Warrior Sunstorm"
- "MP-1B Cybertron Commander / Convoy Black Ver."
- "MP-3G Destron Air Commander / Starscream Ghost Ver."
- "Nissan GT-R / Ultra Magnus (Brilliant Pearl White)"
- "Destron Doppelgänger Black Rodimus Convoy"
- "Solar Requiem"
- "Badlands"
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The Transformers: Micromaster
[edit]- The Transformers: Micromaster pack-in comics
Robotmasters
[edit]Henkei! Henkei!
[edit]United EX
[edit]- Transformers United EX (illustrated text stories)
Transformers Cloud
[edit]- Spacetime World: Guardians of Time Text story illustrations #1–6
- Cloud pack-in comics A01 - TFC-A04 and D01 - D04
Generations Selects
[edit]Story pages
[edit]Known packaging illustration
[edit]Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers
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MC-Axis
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Beast Wars
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Binaltech
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Beast Wars Again
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- BWVS-01 Eternal Beast Showdown:
Convoy VS Megatron - BWVS-02 Tough Showdown:
Rhinox VS Scorpos - BWVS-03 Instant Showdown:
Cheetus VS Waspeeter - BWVS-04 Tenacious Showdown:
Tigatron VS Blackwidow - BWVS-04 Screaming Showdown:
Rattle VS Terrorsaur - BWVS-06 Inverse Showdown:
Dinobot VS Tarans - BWVS-07 Loyal Retainer Showdown:
Airazor VS Inferno - BWVS-08 Phantom Showdown:
Ghost Starscream VS Haunted Waspeeter
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Missing Link
[edit]- C-03 Bumble
- C-04 Cliff <ref>[1] Tweet by Takara Tomy's Transformers account</ref>
- C-05 Sunstreaker
- C-06 Cordon
Other illustration work
[edit]- Pioneer laserdisc cover art (super deformed group shots, fact booklet covers)
- The Transformers "For All Mankind" (Japanese reprint cover)
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Gallery
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Notes
[edit]- Several of the G-2 pack-in comics mistakenly credit Yoshioka as "Hidetsugu Toshioka".