Ayako Kurata

Ayako Kurata
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Gender:	Female
Date of birth:	unknown
Place of birth:	Japan
Location:	Tokyo, Japan

Ayako Kurata (倉田 綾子 ,Kurata Ayako) is a Japanese animation director affiliated with Studio Live. She is married to fellow animator Hiroshi Takeuchi.

Works in Detective Conan

• See Animation directed by Ayako Kurata

Starting with the 1st part of A Mysterious Sniper Murder Case in 1998, Kurata began to participate in the production of the Detective Conan anime. After that she did 13 episodes of key animation work, and quit the anime production team in 2000, after finishing the key animation work of the 1st part of The Water Palace of Five Colors Legend.

In addition, Kurata served as an assistant animation director for once, in the Detective Conan anime, which was the 2nd part of The Indiscriminate Stadium Threatening Case.

Participation: 1 movie

• Captured in Her Eyes (Movie 4): Layout design, Key animation

Other notable works

Anime

• Area 88: Chief animation director
• Black Blood Brothers: Chief animation director
• Grenadier: Animation director, key animation
• Inuyasha: Animation director, key animation
• Rurouni Kenshin: Key animation
• Star Ocean EX: Character design, animation director, ending animation, opening animation

References

1. 倉田綾子 - Wikipedia (Japanese)
2. 倉田綾子 - Atwiki (Japanese)
3. Anime News Network