- Akira Yasuda is a Japanese animator, character designer, game designer and mecha designer, who works under the pen name "Akiman". Yasuda is a former employee of the video game company Capcom (joining in 1985) and has worked on many Capcom games, taking on various design roles for works such as the Final Fight series and Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (including their updates) under the pen name Akiman. He has also been involved in anime production, most notably Turn A Gundam, Overman King Gainer and Code Geass. He also went to the United States to work on Red Dead Revolver for Angel Studios. When the studio was bought by Rockstar Games, he returned to Japan, where he officially left Capcom in 2003 and started working as a freelance artist. He has also worked on character designs and illustratons for various Capcom works, including Street Fighter III, Darkstalkers/Vampire, and Breath of Fire.
- IMDb mini biography by: Milton W.
- He idolizes the works of Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Frank Frazetta, and N. C. Wyeth.
- He always believed that Chun-Li has a partner, and says she will be dating and thinking about getting married one day. He recalls drawing Chun-Li going on a date in her Super Street Fighter II ending. The last costume he made for Chun-Li in Street Fighter V was her in a wedding dress.
- He is commonly believed to be the reason Chun-Li has so many more outfits in Street Fighter V than any other character, as there have even been updates to the game to add some of his outfits for her right after new ones have been recently released.
- His favourite manga are Slam Dunk, Fist of the North Star and Karate Baka Ichidai.
- The first manga series he's ever read was Sampei Shirato's Sasuke, which was given to him by his father's uncle. The second manga series he read was Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy (known as Mighty Atom in Japan).
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