Kazuchika Kise

is a Japanese director, animator, and character designer. He started working in the anime industry in 1989 with Patlabor: The Movie. In 2015, he made his directorial debut with Ghost in the Shell: Arise.

Biography Kazuchika Kise was born in Osaka on March 6, 1965. After graduating from High School, he joined AnimeR and studied under . Later, he joined Production I.G and was involved in his first project, Patlabor: The Movie. In 2018, Kise designed the characters for Made in Abyss, which won anime of the year at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards in the same year.

Works TV series Blue Seed (1994–1998) (character designer) Otogi Zoshi (2004–2005) (character designer) xxxHolic (2006–2008) (character designer) Blood-C (2011) (character designer with Clamp) Ghost in the Shell: Arise (2013–2015) (director) Platinum End (2021–2022) (second part director)

Films Blood: The Last Vampire (2000) (animation director) Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie (2015) (character designer) Fate/Grand Order - Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot (2020–2021) (character designer)

Original video animation The Heroic Legend of Arslan (1991) (animation director) Combustible Campus Guardress (1994) (character designer)