Deformed Character Artist – Line Art and Coloring

The position creates visual assets for battle scenes in titles including Granblue Fantasy. Day-to-day work covers rough sketches, line art, and coloring for deformed or mini characters, along with illustrations for item icons.

Required qualifications are experience creating line art for mini characters, accurate depiction of human bodies, clothing, and structures, and experience producing illustrations for item icons. Preferred experience includes adapting an established art style, such as through animation work; strong familiarity with the company’s titles and the ability to understand character traits; the ability to draw item illustrations in a realistic style; and experience creating animation storyboards. The desired profile also mentions an interest in the company’s released titles and in anime and manga.

This is a full-time regular-employee position. The posting states that a contract-employee or outsourced arrangement may also be used. Annual salary is listed as JPY 4.5 million to JPY 12.0 million and is determined according to experience, ability, and company rules. A half-year performance incentive system is available. The annual salary includes prescribed overtime and late-night-work allowances, which are paid regardless of whether overtime is worked.

The work locations are offices in Shibuya and Meguro, Tokyo. Standard working hours are 10:00 to 19:00, with eight scheduled working hours and a 60-minute break from 13:00 to 14:00. Average monthly overtime was approximately 18.5 hours in 2025. Both offices are generally smoke-free indoors, with designated rooms for heated tobacco products.

Holidays include a two-day weekend on Saturdays and Sundays, national holidays, three summer-leave days taken between July 1 and November 30, year-end and New Year holidays from December 29 to January 3, annual paid leave, and condolence leave. Ten days of paid leave are granted on the joining date in the first year. Health insurance, employment insurance, workers’ accident compensation insurance, and employees’ pension insurance are provided for regular employees.

Support programs include company meetings, official clubs, social-event cost assistance, a game-play room, onboarding training, CyStudy, Skill Thursday, and a mentor-trainer program for new and second-new graduates. Health support includes influenza vaccination, an in-house massage service, free soft drinks, lunch assistance, a babysitter discount, and brain screening. Regular-employee benefits also include housing assistance, relocation allowance, child allowance, and a corporate defined-contribution pension plan. Benefits, insurance, holidays, and other conditions may differ for outsourced arrangements. Side jobs are prohibited.