Kazuya Shiotsuki (Japanese: 潮月一也, Hepburn: Shiotsuki Kazuya) is a Japanese animator and character designer.

Kazuya Shiotsuki
潮月 一也
NationalityJapanese
Occupation(s)Animator, character designer
Years active2001–present
Employer(s)Hadashi Pro (2001~2002)
Shaft (2003–present)
Known forGourmet Girl Graffiti
Luminous Witches

Career

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Shiotsuki joined Hadashi Pro in the early 2000s as a rookie in-between animator. Within a few years, he left the studio and joined Shaft around 2003. Initially, Shiotsuki continued with in-between work, but was promoted to key animator within a year; and by 2006, he was doing animation direction work. In 2008, Shiotsuki received his first job as a character designer for one of the Shina Dark music videos.[1] Soon thereafter, he became more involved with Shaft's works as a main staff member taking on a variety of different roles from accessory designer, to chief animation director, and so forth. His first character design work for a televised anime, however, came in 2015 when he designed the characters for Gourmet Girl Graffiti.[2] In 2022, he designed the characters for the Strike Witches spin-off series Luminous Witches.[3]

Shiotsuki named Shaft colleague Nobuhiro Sugiyama as a particular influence on his style. Nisekoi's first season, which Sugiyama drew the designs for and acted as chief animation director alongside Shiotsuki, garnered praise from the latter, who described the key visuals and character sheets as "godlike."[4]

Works

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This is an incomplete list.

Teleivison series

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  Highlights character design or chief animation direction roles.
  Highlights other main animation staff member roles.

Year Title Director(s) Studio Roles Ref(s)
2009 Natsu no Arashi! Akiyuki Shinbo
Shin Oonuma
Shaft Accessory design (#1–3)
2012 Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb Akiyuki Shinbo
Yuki Yase
Shaft Chief animation direction assistance (#8)
2014 Nisekoi Akiyuki Shinbo
Naoyuki Tatsuwa
Shaft Chief animation director [5]
2015 Gourmet Girl Graffiti Akiyuki Shinbo
Naoyuki Tatsuwa
Shaft Character designer
Chief animation director
[2]
2016–2017 March Comes In like a Lion Akiyuki Shinbo
Kenjirou Okada
Shaft Chief animation director
Clothing designer (#1–11)
Prop designer (#12–22)
2017–2018 March Comes In like a Lion 2nd Season Chief animation director [6]
2020 Assault Lily Bouquet Shouji Saeki
Hajime Ootani
Shaft Chief animation director
Sub-character designer
[7][8]
2022 Luminous Witches Shouji Saeki Shaft Animation character designer
Chief animation director
[3][9]
2023 The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses Satoshi Kuwabara Tezuka Productions (Shaft) Chief animation director (#9)

OVAs

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Year Title Director(s) Studio Roles Ref(s)
2008 Shina Dark Naoyuki Konno
Shinpei Tomooka
Shin Oonuma
Toshimasa Suzuki
Shaft Character designer [1]
2013 Hidamari Sketch: Sae & Hiro's Graduation Arc Akiyuki Shinbo
Yuki Yase
Shaft Clothing designer (#1)
2014 Nisekoi Akiyuki Shinbo
Naoyuki Tatsuwa
Shaft Chief animation director (#1)
2015 Magical Suite Prism Nana Yukihiro Miyamoto Shaft Character designer (#1) [10]

Films

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Year Title Director(s) Studio Roles Ref(s)
2023 The Quintessential Quintuplets~ Yukihiro Miyamoto Shaft Character designer
Chief animation director
[11]

References

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  1. ^ a b "シャイナ・ダルク ~黒き月の王と蒼碧の月の姫君~". Highway Star (in Japanese). Archived from the original on September 17, 2021. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
  2. ^ a b 幸腹グラフィティ [Gourmet Girl Graffiti]. Shaft. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
  3. ^ a b Loo, Egan (November 14, 2021). "Luminous Witches TV Anime Posts 2nd Promo Video's Short Version Online". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
  4. ^ Himmelheber, Eric; Sarca (July 29, 2023). "Discussing The Quintessential Quintuplets∽ Special With Junichiro Tanaka, Keiichiro Ohchi and Kazuya Shiotsuki". Anime Corner. Retrieved July 29, 2023.
  5. ^ ニセコイ [Nisekoi]. Shaft (in Japanese). Retrieved March 6, 2023.
  6. ^ 3月のライオン [March Comes In like a Lion]. Shaft (in Japanese). Retrieved March 6, 2023.
  7. ^ Loo, Egan (December 21, 2019). "Assault Lily Bouquet Anime Teased in Video". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
  8. ^ アサルトリリィ BOUQUET [Assault Lily Bouquet]. Shaft (in Japanese). Retrieved March 6, 2023.
  9. ^ @shaft_official (July 3, 2022). 【ルミナス】|『ルミナスウィッチーズ』第1話 | から、ジニー、いのり、ミラーシャの総作監修正です | 総作画監督:潮月一也 [Luminous Witches | From the first episode of "Luminous Witches" | Ginny, Inari, and Milasha; this is the chief animation director's correction | Chief animation director: Kazuya Shiotsuki] (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  10. ^ "Prism Nana Episode 1 Staff". Prism Nana (in Japanese). Retrieved March 6, 2023.
  11. ^ "STAFF / CAST". 5hanayome (in Japanese). TBS. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
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