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

Yoko Kikuchi (菊地洋子, Kikuchi Yoko) is a Japanese anime animator and artists. Her positions range from general animation tasks to character designing for anime such as Noir. She has worked under a number of animation studios and has designed for several projects, her most recent being the Bee Train adaptation of ~Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~, and CLAMP's Tsubasa SHUNRAIKI. Kikuchi has also directed closing credits of Noir.

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