[1] Yamada has produced art and character design for a wide range of media, including manga, video games, novels, and anime.
[5] Among his best known works are the art for Fuyumi Ono's The Twelve Kingdoms series and Mizuno Ryo's Record of Lodoss War.
[6] He designed for PlayStation games Saiyuki: Journey West and Front Mission 3; various Might and Magic and Wizardry titles on PC Engine; and Mystic Ark and Castlevania on Super Famicom.
[5] Yamada worked on concept design for the live-action film Shinobi: Heart Under Blade[citation needed] and was art director for Koga Ninjutsu.
[1][2] Phoenix Television pointed out that his work contains elements from Gustave Doré's print lines and Alphonse Mucha's "decorative images" and describes his style as combining European swords and magic and the "delicacy of Eastern culture.