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Yoji Shinkawa (新川洋司?)
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Born	December 25, 1971; Japan
Occupation	Concept artist/illustrator

Yoji Shinkawa (新川洋司 Shinkawa Yōji^?, born December 25, 1971) is the primary character and mechanical designer of the Metal Gear series since Metal Gear Solid. He also worked as a mecha designer for the Zone of the Enders games.

Born in Hiroshima, Shinkawa began working for Konami in 1994. He first worked as a debugger for the PC-98 version of Policenauts. He then worked as a graphic designer for the console versions of Policenauts. An early artwork of Solid Snake and Meryl Silverburgh from Metal Gear Solid is featured in the Policenauts: Pilot Disk for the 3DO. He is now the lead artist on many of Kojima Productions' titles.

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Shinkawa's illustration is generally praised as original and stylistic, yet technically accurate. According to Shinkawa, he is inspired by anime-related artists like Yoshikazu Yasuhiko and Yoshitaka Amano, but also more Western-related and less contemporary artists such as Frank Miller, Aubrey Beardsley, and Willy Pogany. He is also a big fan of French artists such as Mœbius.