Takuji Kawano (川野 琢嗣 Kawano Takuji?) is a Japanese illustrator and conceptual artist employed by Bandai Namco Games. He is best known among fans and the gaming community as the 2D character art designer in "Project Soul", Namco's development team for their Soul Calibur series of 3D weapon-based fighting games. However, Kawano has done work for the Tekken series as well and some other Namco games.