Staff
Kazuchika Kise
黄瀬和哉
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Biography
- Occupations
- Animator, Designer
- Years active
- 1983–present
Kazuchika Kise grew up admiring anime such as Space Battleship Yamato and during highschool he started animating with his friends. He enrolled into a professional animation school after graduating, but quit quickly due to being disappointed in how the lessons were conducted.
He joined Anime R and later its subsidiary Studio Muu. His first work was as an in-betweener on Psycho Armor Govarian while his debut as a key animator was on Captain Tsubasa.
After working on Mamoru Oshii's Patlabor he permanently joined Production I.G. becoming known, together with Hiroyuki Okiura and Tetsuya Nishio, as "The Three Gods of I.G."
He's is one of the most prominent animators of the realist school, with emphasis on solid shapes and weighty character animation.
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Staff credits (17 titles in the catalog)
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- Character Design
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- Character Design
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Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul
Winter 2020
- Character Design
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- Main Animator
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These
Spring 2018
- Design Works
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Welcome to the Ballroom
Summer 2017
- Episode Director (ep 10)
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Made in Abyss
Summer 2017
- Character Design
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Your Name.
Summer 2016
- Animation Director
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Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie
Spring 2015
- Chief Director
- Character Design
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Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border:1 Ghost Pain
Spring 2013
- Chief Director
- Character Design
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Eden of the East the Movie II: Paradise Lost
Winter 2010
- Assistant Director
- Animation Director
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The Sky Crawlers
Summer 2008
- Key Animation











