Yasushi Nirasawa (韮沢 靖, August 26, 1963 – February 2, 2016) was a Japanese illustrator and sculptor. Nirasawa's prolific work has been featured since 1987 in the "Creature Core" column of the magazine Hobby Japan and collected into numerous artbooks. His frequently grotesque creature designs are most familiar to tokusatsu fans as the Monsters of the Week in Heisei Kamen Rider series.
Yasushi Nirasawa's concepts and designs have appeared in:
Anime and Manga
Film - Animated
- Amon: The Apocalypse of Devilman
- Bleach: Memories of Nobody
- Dominator (Lady Violator)
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
- Iron Man: Rise of Technovore
- Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Film - Live Action
- Godzilla: Final Wars (Gigan, Xilians)
- The Great Yokai War (Kikai)
- Hellboy
- Kamen Rider G
- Space Truckers
- GARO
- Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger
- Kamen Rider Blade
- Kamen Rider Decade
- Kamen Rider Den-O
- Kamen Rider Kabuto
- Bullet Witch (bosses)
- Deep Fear
- Enemy Zero
- Eternal Poison (Majin)
- Shin Megami Tensei IV (new demons)
- Soulcalibur (guest designer: Edge Master)
