Mika Pikazo

Mika Pikazo (ミカ ピカゾ, born 1993) is a Japanese illustrator and character designer.

A prolific artist both in creative output and public engagement, she is known for her distinctive style characterized by bold use of vivid, saturated colors and a preference for depicting youthful characters

Early life Mika Pikazo was born in Tokyo in 1993 and pursued drawing as a passion from childhood. Initially convinced she would make illustration her career, she wavered following some difficulties along the way. to begin a phase of artistic exploration, after which she would decide whether and how to make art her profession. Her work in this field continued in 2021 when Hololive Production commissioned her to design Hakos Baelz, who also surpassed one million subscribers.

Multimedia projects In 2018, she founded THE MOON STUDIO together with Kaguya Luna, a creative agency for virtual YouTubers. At the end of that year, the agency presented the KOTODAMA TRIBE project, creating seven character models and holding auditions to find corresponding "virtual talents." Before the studio's premature closure, it managed to debut the VTuber Pinky Pop Hepburn, who remained the project's only temporarily active artist.

That same year, she collaborated with Crypton Future Media on the design and illustration of Hatsune Miku for the Vocaloid concert Magical Mirai, held in Tokyo and Osaka.

Video games In video games, she collaborated with Aniplex on character design and illustrations for the mobile game Fate/Grand Order,

Anime and manga In anime and manga, she collaborated with artist Takahiro, creator of Akame ga Kill!, to provide consistent character design across the anime, mobile application, and manga for the multimedia project World Dai Star. In 2025, a pop-up shop for the Monogatari series opened in Tokyo offering merchandise based on her illustrations.

A similar collaboration was done the previous year with CyberAgent under Disney authorization, during which T-shirts and posters featuring illustrations of characters inspired by Mickey Mouse characters were sold.

Solo exhibitions and major roles Among her major solo exhibitions are Revenge POP, hosted at Shibuya HZ and co-sponsored by Pixiv,

In 2025, she was appointed creative director for the project The Landscape of Emotion – In Tanka Poems and Illustration, a themed exhibition proposed by the city of Tokorozawa at the Kadokawa Culture Museum and available from February 2026, combining her large-scale works with traditional Japanese tanka poetry.