Kazuya Shiotsuki (Japanese: 潮月一也, Hepburn: Shiotsuki Kazuya) is a Japanese animator and character designer.
Career
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
This is an incomplete list.
Teleivison series
Highlights character design or chief animation direction roles. Highlights other main animation staff member roles.
^アサルトリリィ BOUQUET [Assault Lily Bouquet]. Shaft (in Japanese). Retrieved March 6, 2023.
^@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.
