Yoko Kikuchi

Yoko Kikuchi
菊地 洋子
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation(s)	Animator, character designer artist
Employer(s)	Bee Train Studio DEEN Production I.G
Spouse	Eiji Suganuma
Children	1

Yoko Kikuchi (菊地 洋子, Kikuchi Yōko) is a Japanese animator and character designer. She has participated in numerous anime TV series produced by Bee Train and Studio Fantasia. She is married to fellow animator Eiji Suganuma, and in 2000 they had a child.

Filmography

Original video animations

• Giant Robo (1992), Key Animation
• Dirty Pair Flash: Mission I (1994), Key Animation
• Macross Plus (1994), Key Animation
• Ninja Cadets (1996), Original Drawing
• The Adventures of Kotetsu (1996), Character Design, Animation Director
• Agent Aika (1997), Animation Director (eps 2, 4–5), Assistant Character Design, Key Animation (Special Trial; eps 1–7)
• Geobreeders (1998), Key Animation
• Labyrinth of Flames (2000), Character Design
• Kirameki Project (2005), Character Design, Animation Director (ep 1)
• Saikano: Another Love Song (2005), Key Animation
• Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations (2007), Character Design
• Tsubasa: Shunraiki (2009), Character Design, Animation Director (OP), Key Animation (OP)

Anime television

• Yu Yu Hakusho (1992), Key Animation
• Jigoku Sensei Nube (1996), In-Between Animation
• Silent Möbius (1998), Key Animation (ep 25)
• Arc the Lad (1999), Character Design, Animation Director
• Noir (2001), Director (ED), Character Design, Animation Director (ED), Animation (OP)
• Tantei Shōnen Kageman (2001), Announcer, Obachan
• .hack//Legend Of The Twilight (2003), Character Design, Animation Director (eps 1, 12), Cover Art
• Rumbling Hearts (2003), Character Design, Chief Animation Director
• Le Chevalier D'Eon (2006), Key Animation (ep 1)
• El Cazador de la Bruja (2007), Character Design, Animation Director (eps 1, 13, 26), Key Animation Supervisor (OP/ED)
• Junjō Romantica (2008), Character Design
• Junjō Romantica 2 (2008), Character Design
• Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~ (2009), Character Design, Animation (OP1)
• Umineko no Naku Koro ni (2009), Character Design, Chief Animation Director, Animation Director (ep 26)
• Hakuōki (2010), Key Animation (ep 12)
• Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi (2011), Character Design
• Kuroko's Basketball (2012). Character Design

Anime films

• Slayers: The Motion Picture (1995), Key Animation
• Macross Plus Movie Edition (1995), Key Animation
• Case Closed: The Fourteenth Target (1998), Key Animation
• Ah! My Goddess: The Movie (2000), Key Animation
• Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle the Movie: The Princess in the Birdcage Kingdom (2005), Character Design, Animation Director
• Yatterman (2009), Key Animation
• Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (2010), Key Animation

External links

• Yoko Kikuchi on Twitter
• Yoko Kikuchi at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Yoko Kikuchi anime at Media Arts Database (in Japanese)