Yutaka Izubuchi

Yutaka Izubuchi (出渕 裕, Izubuchi Yutaka; born December 8, 1958) is a Japanese anime mecha and character designer, anime director, illustrator and manga artist. He was born in Tokyo, Japan and grew up in Yokohama. Izubuchi is also known for his manga and illustrations, but most of his fame comes from his design work. He mainly designs robots and other mecha in anime works, while he designs characters and creatures in Tokusatsu productions. He is also interested in dress design, especially German military uniforms, and by extension European armor. This influence is also evident in the design of mecha and the costumes of the characters. The design of robots such as Gundam and Galient incorporates the image of armour, and the character costume designs he is entrusted with are mainly military uniforms and other uniforms. He also created the Protect-Gear armor used in the Kerberos saga (Jin-Roh, etc.), based on German military helmets. He is not only a designer, but also a scriptwriter, director and producer of numerous video works. In addition, he has several original works which he owns the copyright to. For the Patlabor series, he was heavily involved in its production as one of the members of the copyright holder group Headgear.