Eisaku Kubonouchi

Template:Nihongo is a Japanese manga artist and character designer.

Biography

Kubonouchi made his professional career debut in 1986 with the short story Okappiki Eiji published in the manga magazine Shōnen Sunday. From 1988 to 1991, he worked on his first series, Tsurumoku Dokushin Ryō, which was in 1991 made into a movie with Kōyō Maeda (ja) in the leading role. His second manga series, Watanabe, was made into a television series in 1993, directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. After a 7-year hiatus, Kubonouchi began Chocolat, a story about a former mob boss, just having been released from the prison, who befriends a 16-year-old girl. Chocolat was published from October 1999 to September 2003 in Big Comic Spirits. In 2003, the manga was made into a television drama, that lasted 45 episodes.

Works

Title	Year	Notes	Refs
Template:Nihongo3	1988–91	Serialized in Big Comic Spirits, 7 volumes
Template:Nihongo3	1992	Serialized in Big Comic Spirits, 3 volumes
Chocolat	1999–2003	Serialized in Big Comic Spirits Published by Shogakukan, 7 volumes
Template:Nihongo3	2006–07	Published in Big Comic Spirits, 4 volumes
Template:Nihongo3	2008–10	Published in Evening Kodansha Comics, 3 volumes
Sono Toki, Kanojo wa	2018	Original creator, Character Design
Bullbuster	2018	Original Character Design
Carole & Tuesday	2019	Original Character Design
Astro Note	2024	Original Character Design

Other works

Other works	Title	Refs
Character redesign for Cup Noodle Ads	Sazae-san
	Heidi, Girl of the Alps
	Kiki's Delivery Service
	One Piece

External links

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• Template:In lang Interview with Eisaku Kubonouchi about dramatizing Chocolat (Web Archive)
• Template:In lang List of Eisaku Kubonouchi's worksTemplate:Dead link at Shogakukan official site
• Template:Anime News Network