Narumi Kakinouchi

Narumi Kakinouchi (垣野内 成美, Kakinouchi Narumi, born March 21, 1962) is a Japanese manga artist, illustrator, animator, director, character designer, and an animation director.

Biography

Kakinouchi was born in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. After graduating from high school, she began working at Studio Beebo under the direction of Tomonori Kogawa, then moving on to Studio Io, Artland, AIC and other studios where she was an animator, designer, and animation director on many TV series and OVAs. She made her manga and character designer debut with Vampire Princess Miyu.

Kakinouchi made her key animation debut with her work on the 1980 series Space Runaway Ideon. She then garnered great attention as the character designer, storyboard artist, and animation director for the Vampire Princess Miyu OVAs in 1988, and in March of that same year she co-authored the first Vampire Princess Miyu manga, serialized in the mystery/horror monthly manga magazine Susperia.

She made her directorial debut with Ryokunohara Labyrinth in 1990, in addition to being the character designer, scenario creator, storyboard artist, and animation director for the OVA.

In addition to her manga work, as an illustrator she has also done work for a number of books, album covers, a card game,[1] and a cover of the adult manga magazine Lemon People.[2]

After a 16-year hiatus, in 2014 she returned to work as animator, serving as animation director of single episodes of The Pilot's Love Song, Date A Live II, Aldnoah.Zero, Psycho-Pass 2, Shirogane no Ishi Argevollen, Shinmai Maō no Testament, as well as TV episodes and a TV movie of Lupin the Third.[3]

Kakinouchi is married to anime director Toshiki Hirano, with whom she has frequently collaborated on manga and anime projects.[4][5][6]

Anime works

TV series

Films

Original video animations

Original works

Manga

Book illustrations

Listed alphabetically by author.

Album cover art

  • Everything by Fluke Beauty 2007

Games

  • Arcus II: Silent Symphony (art director)
  • Click Manga: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (original design, character design)
  • Zoku Hatsukoi Monogatari: Shūgaku Ryokō (character design)

References

  1. ^ "Narumi KAKINOUCHI - Anime News Network". Retrieved 2021-10-07.
  2. ^ "Lemon People 1986-08 vol.59 Book Info". 27 June 1986. Retrieved 2021-10-07.
  3. ^ "Narumi Kakinouchi - IMDb". IMDb. Retrieved 2021-10-07.
  4. ^ "Narumi Kakinouchi". Lambiek Comiclopedia. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  5. ^ Pineda, Rafael Antonio (22 July 2020). "Vampire Miyu: Saku Manga Ends in 7th Volume". Anime News Network. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  6. ^ Clements, Jonathan; Helen McCarthy (2015). "Hirano, Toshihiro". The Anime Encyclopedia: A Century of Japanese Animation (3rd ed.). Berkeley, California: Stone Bridge Press. pp. 365–366. ISBN 9781611720181. OCLC 1011914056.
  7. ^ "｢プラレス3四郎 PLAWRES SANSHIRO｣" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-05-15. Retrieved 2006-10-28.