Biography
Yutaka Izubuchi (出渕 裕, Izubuchi Yutaka, born August 12, 1958 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese anime designer, screenwriter and director. Izubuchi is credited for designing costumes, characters and creatures, but most of his designs are mechanical (both robots and other vehicles). He created and directed the RahXephon series and a manga series called Rune Masquer. He is also credited with creation of the 2024 anime Metallic Rouge.Among Izubuchi's design credits are the mecha from Panzer World Galient as well as some Gundam and Patlabor shows. He also created the Protect-Gear armor used in the Kerberos saga (Jin-Roh, etc.).
The ADV Films promotional materials for RahXephon and some reviews Gasaraki is an Izubuchi credit, but although he did mecha design on that show he was not responsible for writing or directing.
Izubuchi designed the costume for one of the characters of the Cutie Honey live action movie (2004), directed by Hideaki Anno of Neon Genesis Evangelion fame; earlier, Anno and Izubuchi (called "Bu-chan" by Anno) both had their mecha designs appear on Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (1988).
Izubuchi did some additional design work for Tomoki Kyoda's Eureka Seven. Kyoda was an assistant director and episode director on RahXephon and directed its theatrical adaptation.
Izubuchi's work also extends to tokusatsu, doing monster designs for Kagaku Sentai Dynaman, Choudenshi Bioman, Dengeki Sentai Changeman, Choushinsei Flashman, Kamen Rider Agito, and Kamen Rider OOO.
As of 2006, Izubuchi said that the design work he was most proud of was on WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3.Izubuchi is the creative producer of Tetsuwan Birdy: Decode (2008).
In 2008, he designed a character for Namco Bandai's fighting game, Soulcalibur IV named Scheherazade.
Filmography
all 49
Movies 28
TV Shows 21
Writer 15
Director 12
Creator 4
self 1
Metallic Rouge (2024)
Documentary "Shin Kamen Rider" ~Behind the Scenes of the Hero Action Challenge~ (2023)
Special Broadcast Movie "Shin Kamen Rider" Premise/Act 1: Kumo-Aug (2023)
Shin Kamen Rider (2023)
Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution (2021)
Gravity Daze the Animation: Ouverture (2016)
Mobile Police Patlabor Reboot (2016)
The Next Generation Patlabor: Tokyo War: Director's Cut (2015)
The Next Generation Patlabor: Tokyo War (2015)
Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark (2014)
Japan Animator Expo (2014)
Space Battleship Yamato 2199: A Voyage to Remember (2014)
The Next Generation: Patlabor (2014)
Space Battleship Yamato 2199: And Now the Warship Comes (2013)
Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Arrival! Large Magellanic Cloud (2013)
Space Battleship Yamato 2199: The Redolence of Intergalactic Space (2013)
Star Blazers [Space Battleship Yamato] 2199 (2013)
Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Defense of the Galactic March (2013)
Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Endless Voyage (2012)
Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Desperate Struggle in the Heliosphere (2012)
Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (2012)
Shangri-La (2009)
Birdy the Mighty: Decode (2008)
Cutie Honey: The Live (2007)
The Skull Man (2007)
Toward the Terra (2007)
Cutie Honey (2004)
RahXephon Interlude: Her and Herself/Thatness and Thereness (2003)
RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio (2003)
MiniPato: Mobile Police Patlabor Minimum (2002)
WXIII: Patlabor The Movie 3 (2002)
RahXephon (2002)
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (1995)
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)
Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993)
Inferious Wakusei Senshi Gaiden Condition Green (1991)
Patlabor: The New Files (1990)
Record of Lodoss War (1990)
Patlabor: The TV Series (1989)
Patlabor: The Movie (1989)
Patlabor: The Mobile Police (1988)
Delpower X Bakuhatsu Miracle Genki! (1986)
Momoco Wonderland: Strange House (1986)
Choushinsei Flashman (1986)
All About Mighty Lady (1984)
Aura Battler Dunbine (1983)
Armored Fleet Dairugger XV (1982)
Combat Mecha Xabungle (1982)
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GenderMale
Birthday1958-12-08 (65 years old)
Birth PlaceTokyo, Japan
CitizenshipsJapan
Also Known As出渕 裕
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