Yukiko Horiguchi

Yukiko Horiguchi (堀口 悠紀子, Horiguchi Yukiko, born 28 January 1983) is a Japanese animator and illustrator from Kyoto Prefecture, who used to work for the anime studio Kyoto Animation. When illustrating a light novel, she uses pen name "Shiromizakana" (白身魚). She is best known as being the character designer for the anime adaptations of Lucky Star and K-On!, the anime original Tamako Market and for being the illustrator of the light novel Kokoro Connect.[1]

Yukiko Horiguchi
堀口 悠紀子
Born(1983-01-28)January 28, 1983
NationalityJapanese
Occupation
  • Illustrator
  • character designer
  • animation director
  • animator

She is the older sister of BUNBUN (also known as abec), also a light novel illustrator, responsible for the illustration of the light novel Sword Art Online, Sword Art Online: Progressive, original character designer on the anime Sakura Quest, and many more works. She is very close to her younger brother and was once part of a doujinshi circle with him.

Career

After graduating from junior college, Horiguchi joined Kyoto Animation in 2003. Her first position was as an animator for the television anime Crayon Shin-chan, and began work as a key animator for the first time on Episode 163 of Inuyasha. Her first work as a character designer was for Lucky☆Star. She has also worked on anime such as K-ON! and Tamako Market. In 2007, she illustrated her first light novel, and since then, she continued to do it for many works on the market.

Horiguchi's last credited work at Kyoto Animation was as the character designer and animation director on Tamako Market in 2013. Since then she decided to become a freelancer and work on different projects of anime and mainly as an illustrator of light novels.

Works

Anime
  • Lucky Star (2007) - character design, chief animation director
  • K-On! (2009) - character design, chief animation director
  • Tamako Market (2013) - character design, chief animation director
  • Ano Hi no Kanojo-tachi (2018) - character design, animation director, original character designer for Miu Takigawa
  • Hello World (2019) - character design

Light novel illustrations
  • Lucky Star Yuruyuru Days
  • Hayate no Gotoku! Nagi ga Tsukaima!? Yattoke Sekai Seifuku
  • Tobira no Soto
  • Zarathustra e no Kaidan
  • Ryokuma no Machi
  • Kokoro Connect (2010-2013)
  • Akaoni wa Mō Nakanai
  • Buta wa Tondemo Tada no Buta?
  • Tamako Market
  • Aoi Haruno Subete (2014)

Others
  • 22/7 (character design, original character designer for Miu Takigawa)
  • Sakura Wars (2019) (guest character design)

References
  1. "Japanese Animators & Illustrations". aninomiyako.wordpress.com. Retrieved 20 September 2013.
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