POPMAN3580

POPMAN3580 (popman3580) is an illustrator and graphic designer from Nara Prefecture, Japan, and a graduate of the Department of Design at Osaka University of Arts. popman3580 began posting original illustrations on pixiv around 2012 and received an honourable mention at the pixiv P-1 Grand Prix in 2013. The work is known for slender, lively female figures in carefully designed clothing, posed with energy down to the fingertips, and ranges across book illustration, character design and fashion brand collaborations.

popman3580 was the original character designer (character concept) for the TV anime Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night (Doga Kobo, 2024), designed the characters for the Midnight Grand Orchestra music video Soliloquy (Hoshimachi Suisei and TAKU INOUE), and from 2020 illustrated original music videos for the comedian Soshina of Shimofuri Myojo. In 2022 popman3580 collaborated with the musician and producer Tetsuya Komuro on the Sound ART Project FLUcTUS.

A first solo exhibition, charm, was held in Ebisu, Tokyo, in January 2020, followed by S in Kawasaki in 2021. Two volumes of artworks and sketches, CITRUS (2021) and CITRUS2 (2025), have been published by Genkosha. POPMAN3580's work is presented in Europe by Tokiol.

Selected exhibitions

2026 CITRUS2 release exhibition, Kyoto Tsutaya Books, Kyoto
2025 CITRUS2 release exhibition, MIL 2nd, Miru Gallery Jingumae, Tokyo
2021 S, solo exhibition, Marui Family Mizonokuchi, Kawasaki
2020 charm, solo exhibition, EBISU HORIZON, Tokyo