Yoshimitsu Yamashita

山下喜光

Twitter Yamashita graduated from Kokugakuin University with a Major in History. He first started out in the industry in 1997 as a production assistant at JCF. Amazingly, he has never been formally trained in art. His talent for drawing was first discovered through various doodles and sketches he would make on company paperwork. Yamashita's first project as an animator was on the second Kochikame movie. Some time later he went freelance. Samurai Champloo was the first project he worked on freelance. Around 2006, Yamashita joined Bee Train and started work as character designer and animation…