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. 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

• PDTF Comic
• MC Axis pack-in comics
• Robots in Disguise Vol. 3 Japanese cover

Transformers G-2

• G-2 pack-in comics

e-HOBBY

• "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

• The Transformers: Micromaster pack-in comics

Robotmasters

• Robotmasters catalog comic Vol.1

Henkei! Henkei!

• Henkei! Henkei! Generations comics
  • "Mirage's Activity"

United EX

• Transformers United EX (illustrated text stories)

Transformers Cloud

• Spacetime World: Guardians of Time Text story illustrations #1–6
• Cloud pack-in comics A01 - TFC-A04 and D01 - D04

Generations Selects

• Generations Selects Special Comic
  • Seacons comic 4

Story pages

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

Known packaging illustration

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers

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

Beast Wars Again

• 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

Other illustration work

• 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 "PDTF Comic" 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