is a Japanese illustrator and animator.

Biography

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fan, Inomata began working for

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, working as an animator, key animation director and character designer on several anime television series. In 1982, she left the staff of Ashi Productions, and joined Kaname Productions, working 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

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'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 ''

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'', '' Plawres Sanshirō'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. Inomata is 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

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s, which include ''Voice of the Stars'', ''Dreams of the Moon'' (星の聲月の夢), ''Eccelente'', ''SAI'', and numerous others. Her representative works as a novel illustrator are for the '' Utsunomiko'' (宇宙皇子) series written by Keisuke Fujikawa (藤川圭介) and '' Weathering Continent'' (風の大陸) series by author Sei Takegawa (竹河聖). She is also noted for being the main character designer on a number of titles in

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's '' Tales of'' series of video games.

Works

Manga

*''GB Bomber'' (''Motion Comics'') *''Nyan no Ohanashi'' (''Anime Juke Mix'') - based on her love for cats.

Artbooks

* ''Inomata Mutsumi Lovely Collection'' * ''Inomata Mutsumi Art Collection - Utsunomiko'' (いのまたむつみ画集宇宙皇子) * ''Voice of the Stars, Dreams of the Moon'' (星の聲月の夢) * ''Utsunomiko 2'' (宇宙皇子２) * ''Mikan Story'' (みかんＳＴＯＲＹ) * ''Dragon Quest'' * ''Eccellente'' * ''SAI'' (彩) * ''Tales'' * ''Un Ballo En Maschera, The Weathering Continent''

Anime

* ''Kujira no Josefina'' (animation) * ''Zukkoke Knight Don De La Mancha'' (animation) * ''

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'' (animation) * '' Gekijōban Uchū Senshi Baldios'' (key animation) * ''

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'' (animation director, key animation) * ''Sasuga no Sarutobi'' (animation director, key animation) * '' Leda: The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko'' (character designs, animation director (ep.1)) * ''

'' (character designs, animation director) * '' Acrobunch'' (character designs, animation director) * ''

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'' (character designs, animation director) * ''

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'' (key animation) * ''

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'' (animation director) * '' City Hunter 2'' (animation director) * '' Utsunomiko'' (original character design) * '' The Weathering Continent'' (original character design) * ''Watt Poe to Bokura no Ohanashi'' (character design) * ''

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'' (key animation) * ''

'' (original character design) * ''

'' (original character design) * '' Mobile Suit Gundam SEED'' (design coordinator) * ''

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'' (original seifuku (school uniform) design) * ''

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'' (design coordinator) * ''

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'' (original character design)

Games

*''Alpha'' (

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) *''Dungeon of Windaria'' ( Nintendo DS,

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; original character design) *''EMIT'' (PC game) *''Surging Aura'' *''Yami no Matsuei'' (Sega Saturn game) * ''Tales'' series (

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) **'' Tales of Destiny'' **''

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'' **'' Tales of Rebirth'' **'' Tales of the Tempest'' **''

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'' * ''Tekken'' series (

) **''

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's third costume designs) **''

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PlayStation Portable; Zafina's third costume design) **''

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's second costume design) *''BB Ball''

Tokusatsu

*''Dennō Keisatsu Cyber Cop'' (Luna design)

Note

External links

Ichigo Mountain

Inomata's profile on her print publisher's site
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Inomata, Mutsumi Japanese animators Anime character designers 1960 births People from Kanagawa Prefecture Living people Video game artists