Narumi Kakinouchi

Narumi Kakinouchi (垣野内 成美) was born on March 21, 1962 in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. She is a mangaka, animator, director, character designer, and an animation director. Some of her work has appeared in the adult manga magazine Lemon People.

After graduating from high school, she began working at Studio Beebo under the direction of Tomonori Kogawa, then moving on to Studio Io, Artland, AIC and other studios where she was an animator, designer, and animation director on many TV series and OVAs. She made her manga and character designer debut with Vampire Princess Miyu. Due to her magnificent artwork, she became very popular even outside the anime and manga scene, doing illustrations and character designs for many other projects.

Kakinouchi is married to anime director Toshiki Hirano.

Brief history
Kakinouchi made her key animation debut with her work on the 1980 series Space Runaway Ideon. She then garnered great attention as the character designer, storyboard artist, and animation director for the Vampire Princess Miyu OVAs in 1988, and in March of that same year she co-authored the first Vampire Princess Miyu manga, serialized in the mystery/horror monthly manga magazine Susperia.

She made her directorial debut with Ryokunohara Labyrinth in 1990, in addition to being the character designer, scenario creator, storyboard artis, and animation director for the OVA.

TV series

 * Dr. Slump & Arale-chan (key animation, original designs)
 * Kimagure Orange Road (original designs, opening and ending animation for episode 1-8)
 * Magic Star Magical Emi (animation director for episode 34)
 * Magical Idol Pastel Yumi (animation director for episode 25)
 * Magical Princess Minky Momo (original designs for episode 10 and 15)
 * Ninja Senshi Tobikage (animation director for episodes 25 and 41)
 * Plawres Sanshiro (original designs for episode 28)
 * Space Runaway Ideon (key animation)
 * The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (original designs (episodes 4, 7, 12, 19, 26, 31, 36), assistant production director (episodes 19, 26))
 * Urusei Yatsura (key animation, original designs)
 * Vampire Princess Miyu (character designs, original designs, opening animation for episode 25)

Movies

 * Crusher Joe (original designs)
 * Space Runaway Ideon (in-between animation)
 * The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? (assistant animation director)

Original Video Animations

 * Adventure! Iczer 3 (original designs)
 * Cosmos Pink Shock (original designs, animation director)
 * Cream Lemon: Don't Do It Mako! Mako Sexy Symphony (original designs, animation director)
 * Daimajū Gekitō: Hagane no Oni (original designs)
 * Hyper Combat Unit Dangaioh (animation director for episodes 1 and 3)
 * Fight!! Iczer 1 (original designs, animation director)
 * Megazone 23 (original designs, animation director)
 * Neko Neko Gensōkyoku (character designs)
 * Ryokunohara Labyrinth (director, character designs, scenario, storyboards, animation director)
 * Vampire Princess Miyu (character designs, storyboards, animation director)

Manga

 * Magic at 3:00pm (午後3時の魔法)
 * China Blue Jasmine (チャイナ・ブルーJASMINE)
 * Dahlia the Vampire (ダリア ヴァンパイア)
 * Isei Gakuen Elistaers (異星学園エリスターズ) (with Toshiki Hirano)
 * Juline (格闘小娘JULINE)
 * Shaolin Sisters (風雲三姉妹LIN³) (sequel)
 * Shaolin Sisters: Reborn (新・風雲三姉妹特LIN) (sequel)
 * Keep Trust: Shinrai no Kizuna (KEEP TRUST -信頼の絆-)
 * Koi Suiren (恋水蓮)
 * Le Masque (マスク)
 * Mengenso (面幻想) (with Toshiki Hirano)
 * Mermaid Trip (マーメイドトリップ) (with Toshiki Hirano)
 * Moon Princess (ムーンプリンセス)
 * Moon Princess: Red Moon (ムーンプリンセスRED MOON)
 * My Code Name is Charmer (コードネームはCHARMER)
 * Ruby Blood (ルビー・ブラッド)
 * The Strange Case Files of Ryoko Yakushiji (薬師寺涼子の怪奇事件簿)
 * Snow Sugar
 * Utahime Fight! (歌姫FIGHT!)
 * Vampire Princess Miyu (吸血姫美夕)
 * New Vampire Princess Miyu (新・吸血姫美夕) (sequel, with Toshiki Hirano)
 * Vampire Princess Yui (吸血姫夕維) (spin-off)
 * Vampire Princess Yui: Kanonsho (吸血姫夕維・香音抄)
 * The Wanderer
 * Wraith Sweeper (レイスイーパー)

Book illustrations
Listed alphabetically by author.
 * Kagami no Naka no Atashi e... by Mariko Aihara
 * Nagai Nagai Yoru no Mahō by Mariko Aihara
 * Saka no Ie no Himitsu by Mariko Aihara
 * Ushinawareta Koi no Monogatari by Mariko Aihara
 * Yureru Manazashi by Rie Akagi
 * Koi Shōjo wa Meitantei by Kae Oda
 * Koi Shōjo wa Meitantei 2: I Love You wa Kikoenai by Kae Oda
 * Koi Shōjo wa Meitantei 3: Koibito Game by Kae Oda
 * Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo: Black Spider Island by Yoshiki Tanaka
 * Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo: Cleopatra no Sōsō by Yoshiki Tanaka
 * Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo: Matenrō by Yoshiki Tanaka
 * Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo: Pari Yōtohen by Yoshiki Tanaka
 * Yakushiji Ryōko no Kaiki Jikenbo: Tokyo Nightmare by Yoshiki Tanaka
 * Angel Eyes: Shōryō Ōkoku by Yūji Watanabe
 * Girl by Kei Zushi

Album cover art

 * Everything by Fluke Beauty 2007

Games

 * Arcus II: Silent Symphony (art director)
 * Click Manga: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (original design, character design)
 * Zoku Hatsukoi Monogatari: Shūgaku Ryokō (character design)