Narumi Kakinouchi

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Miyu and Larva, the two main characters from Vampire Princess Miyu.

Narumi Kakinouchi (垣野内成美, Kakinouchi Narumi^?) was born on March 21, 1962 in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. She is a mangaka, animator, director, character designer, and an animation director.

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. Due to her magnificent artwork, she became very popular even outside the anime and manga scene, doing illustrations and character designs for many other projects.

Kakinouchi is married to anime director Toshiki Hirano.

1 Brief history
2 Anime works
3 Original works
- 3.1 Manga
- 3.2 Book illustrations
4 Album cover art
5 Games
6 External links
7 References

[edit] Brief history

1980—Key animation debut with Space Runaway Ideon
1988—Garnered great attention as the character designer, storyboard artis, and animation director for the Vampire Princess Miyu OVAs
- March—Vampire Princess Miyu manga debuts in the mystery/horror monthly manga magazine Susperia
1990—Directorial debut with Ryokunohara Labyrinth; in addition, she was also the character designer, scenario creator, storyboard artis, and animation director.

[edit] Anime works

[edit] TV series

Artwork for the Vampire Princess Miyu TV series.

Dr. Slump & Arale-chan (key animation, original designs)
Kimagure Orange Road (original designs, opening and ending animation for episode 1-8)
Magic Star Magical Emi (animation director for episode 34)
Magical Idol Pastel Yumi (animation director for episode 25)
Magical Princess Minky Momo (original designs for episode 10 and 15)
Ninja Senshi Tobikage (animation director for episodes 25 and 41)
Plawres Sanshiro (original designs for episode 28)^[1]^[2]
Space Runaway Ideon (key animation)
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (original designs (eps.4, 7, 12, 19, 26, 31, 36), assistant production director (eps.19, 26))
Urusei Yatsura (key animation, original designs)
Vampire Princess Miyu (character designs, original designs, opening animation for episode 25)

[edit] Movies

Crusher Joe (original designs)
Space Runaway Ideon (in-between animation)
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? (assistant animation director)

[edit] OVAs

Adventure! Iczer 3 (original designs)
Cosmos Pink Shock (original designs, animation director)
Cream Lemon: Don't Do It Mako! Mako Sexy Symphony (original designs, animation director)
Daimajū Gekitō: Hagane no Oni (original designs)
Hyper Combat Unit Dangaioh (animation director for episodes 1 and 3)
Fight!! Iczer 1 (original designs, animation director)
Megazone 23 (original designs, animation director)
Neko Neko Gensōkyoku (character designs)
Ryokunohara Labyrinth (director, character designs, scenario, storyboards, animation director)
Vampire Princess Miyu (character designs, storyboards, animation director)