Chikashi Kubota

Chikashi Kubota is a Japanese animator, character designer and animation director. He is notable for his character design works for Corpse Princess, FLCL Progressive, One-Punch Man and Robotics;Notes.

Career

Born and raised in Katsushika, Kubota joined Xebec after working at Toei Animation Institute, and later worked at Gainax. Since then, he has provided many episode animation directions for various shows, and key animation for various movies, as well as designed the characters for Corpse Princess, One-Punch Man, FLCL, and Robotics;Notes.
In 2016, Kubota won in the "best animator" category at the Tokyo Anime Award.