Kiya Shii

Kiya Shii (木谷椎, Kiya Shii^?) is a Japanese illustrator, who has designed several beings which appear in Toaru Majutsu no Index and Toaru Kagaku no Railgun.

Background

Toaru series

Kiya Shii has designed several creatures appearing in Toaru Majutsu no Index and Toaru Kagaku no Railgun, such as the White Beetle appearing in the contents page of Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 6, the Dragons appearing in Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Volume 10, Misaka Mikoto's iron sand puppet and the doppelganger Kuriba Ryouko's giant puppet appearing in Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Volume 13.

Gallery

Artworks attributed to Kiya Shii

Beetle 05, the rogue beetle. Red eyes indicate an error within the beetle's operations.

Preliminary concept art of the dragon heads, with the rejected "Branch Horn", "Bull Horn", "Four Horned", "Strange-looking", and "Extraterrestrial" dragons prominent. Only the "Angel" and "Energy" dragons are missing from the group.

Concept art featuring the doppelganger's giant puppet for publishing in Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Volume 13

Second version of the giant puppet.

Concept art of dragon heads "Plant", "Two Horns", and "Energy".

Concept art of dragon heads "Angel", "Demon", and "Strange-looking version 2".

Detailed sketch on the dragon head "Angel".

Concept art featuring the final designs chosen for the eight dragon heads together for publishing in Railgun Volume 10.

Concept art featuring the iron sand puppet published in Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Volume 13

Special illustration by Kiya Shii, the original designer of Imagine Breaker's dragon heads.

List of works

Manga

• Shakugan no Shana X: Eternal Song (written by Takahashi Yashichirō and serialized in Dengeki Maoh)
• Sword Art Online - Calibur (written by Kawahara Reki and serialized in Dengeki G's Comic Magazine)

External Links

• Kiya Shii (Japanese Wikipedia)
• ishiyaki765 - Kiya Shii's Twitter account