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Active since 2005
Kentarou Yabuki
矢吹健太朗
Director · Staff
15
Director and staff · 15 anime credits across three decades. Best known for Principle Drawing on Nisekoi: False Love.
Derived from credit data — not curated copy
2005 – 2023
19 years active
15
Staff credits
Best known for · Direction
Principle Drawing
2014
Nisekoi: False Love
Principle Drawing
Background
Birth place: Kochi, Japan Kentaro Yabuki is a Japanese manga artist. His mentor was Takeshi Obata, the illustrator of Death Note, Hikaru no Go and Bakuman. Yabuki is best known for his series Black Cat which ran from 2000 to 2004 in Weekly Shounen Jump and later adapted into an anime. Upon its ending, Yabuki expressed desire to make a sequel from the series, or make its characters reappear in another work. Since 2004, he has only been working as illustrator to works written by other authors. Most notably on the series To Love-Ru alongside his former assistant Saki Hasemi. Twitter: @yabuki_info
Top staff positions
Original Character Design
10
Original Creator
4
Principle Drawing
1