Mutsumi Inomata


Mutsumi Inomata was a Japanese illustrator and animator.

Biography

Mutsumi Inomata was born in Kanagawa Prefecture on December 23, 1960.
An anime fan, Inomata began working for Ashi Productions, working as an animator, key animation director and character designer on several anime television series.
In 1982, she joined some of the younger staff of Ashi Productions who established, where she worked as an animator, animation director, and character designer on several of its series. In 1983, she also made her debut as a manga artist, with her work GB Bomber being featured in Tokuma Shoten's The Motion Comic. Later, in 1984, she left Kaname Productions and continued her work as a freelance animator.
Inomata is noted for her work as an animator, character designer and animation director on several anime titles, including Windaria, Plawres Sanshirō, Future GPX Cyber Formula, and Brain Powerd.
Inomata was also a prolific novel illustrator, known for her vivid watercolor paintings which often center around young women with wide, jewel-like eyes. Many of her illustrations are collected in her artbooks, which include Voice of the Stars, Dreams of the Moon, Eccelente, SAI, and numerous others. Her representative works as a novel illustrator are for the Utsunomiko series written by Keisuke Fujikawa and Weathering Continent series by author Sei Takegawa. She is also noted for being the main character designer on a number of titles in Bandai Namco Entertainment's Tales of series of video games.
Inomata died on March 10, 2024, at the age of 63.

Works

Manga