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Yoshiki Haruhana (born 1970) is a graphic designer working at Nintendo, mostly notorious for being one of the main artists and graphic directors of The Legend of Zelda series along with Satoru Takizawa and Yusuke Nakano.

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Kirbydream

Artwork of Kirby's Dream Course, one of Haruhana's first works at Nintendo.

Haruhana joined Nintendo in 1994. Initially, he worked as an illustrator and received training by Yoichi Kotabe. He made illustrations for Kirby's Dream Course and Yoshi's Island. He eventually became involved in game design since Super Mario 64, where he was in charge of map design, as well as Star Fox 64, where he worked on UI and demo design.

His debut in The Legend of Zelda series was in Ocarina of Time, where he mainly designed models for main characters like Princess Zelda, as well as the Skulltula and Lizalfos enemies; this would continue on Majora's Mask, where he led the design of the characters and masks under art director Takaya Imamura. In The Wind Waker he created Toon Link, which settled the artistic direction of that game. He was also the design director of Mario Kart DS and the Wii Shop Channel.

Currently, Haruhana works mostly in graphic support for various Nintendo titles, although he has also supervised the design of various Zelda titles on Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS, as well as the remakes developed by Grezzo.

He is likely married to Nintendo publicity manager Asako Haruhana, but this theory has neither been confirmed nor denied.

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