Hidetsugu Yoshioka

So why isn't this guy drawing everything forever?

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.

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.

Works

Box art

• Super-God Masterforce
• Victory
• Zone
• Return of Convoy
• Operation Combination

Comics

• Transformers PD Type
• G-2 pack-in comics
• MC Axis pack-in comics
• e-HOBBY pack-in comics
  • "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"
• The Transformers: Micromaster pack-in comics
• Henkei! Henkei! Generations comics
  • "Mirage's Activity"
• Transformers United EX (illustrated text stories)
• Spacetime World: Guardians of Time (pack-in comics and illustrated text stories #1–6)
• Robots in Disguise Vol. 3 Japanese cover

Story pages

• G-2
• Beast Wars
• Henkei! Henkei! Transformers -Visualize-

Misc.

• Pioneer laserdisc cover art (super deformed group shots, fact booklet covers)
• The Transformers "For All Mankind" (Japanese reprint cover)

Gallery

• 
  These two just love to fight, don't they? From the "Transformers PD Type" mini-comics.
• 
  Laser Optimus and Hero Megatron go at it, from the Japanese Generation 2 story pages.
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  Yesssssssssssss.
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  Mirage gets the drop on Octane, from the Transformers Generations 2009 Volume 1 mini-comic.

• Extended Hidetsugu Yoshioka gallery

Notes

• Several of the G-2 pack-in comics mistakenly credit Yoshioka as "Hidetsugu Toshioka".

External links

• Yoshioka interview at eHobby Magazine, part 1
• Yoshioka interview at eHobby Magazine, part 2
• Yoshioka interview at eHobby Magazine, part 3