Staff
Kazumi Ikeda
池田和美
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Biography
- Occupations
- Animator, Designer
- Years active
- 1995–present
Kazumi Ikeda is a Japanese animator and character designer currently affiliated with Kyoto Animation. She joined KyoAni in 1995 after graduating from Yoyogi Animation Gakuin and transferred to the studio's Osaka branch Animation Do when it was established in 2000.
She is best known for doing the character designs in KyoAni's anime adaptations of Key's most prominent visual novels, Kanon and Clannad, marking also her debut as chief animation director on the Kanon remake.
She has no blood relationship with late Shouko Ikeda.
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Staff credits (16 titles in the catalog)
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Saishuu Gakushou Hibike! Euphonium - Zenpen
Spring 2026
- Character Design
- Chief Animation Director
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Sparks of Tomorrow
Summer 2026
- Original Character Design
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Sound! Euphonium 3
Spring 2024
- Character Design
- Chief Animation Director
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Sound! Euphonium: Ensemble Contest
Summer 2023
- Chief Animation Director
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Free! the Final Stroke: The Second Volume
Spring 2022
- Animation Director
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Free! the Final Stroke: The First Volume
Summer 2021
- Animation Director
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Violet Evergarden: the Movie
Summer 2020
- Animation Director
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- Animation Director
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Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions: Take on Me
Winter 2018
- Chief Animation Director
- Character Design
- Animation Director
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Liz and the Blue Bird
Spring 2018
- Animation Director
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Beyond the Boundary -I'LL BE HERE-: Future
Spring 2015
- Animation Director
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Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions - Heart Throb -
Winter 2014
- Character Design
- Chief Animation Director
