Risa Ebata

Date of Birth: ?? ??, 1978 Aliases: Komusume (小娘), Mikan Ehime (愛姫みかん), Tamako Sai (彩珠子)

Ebata Risa is a Japanese character designer, illustrator, animator and animation director.

After graduating high school she joined eroge/bishoujo company Sogna under Nakamura Kenichirou, the studio was well known for its animated games before it was shut down in 2003 (after going bankrupt in 2000). Risa debuted as an in-between animator on Viper BTR and was subsequently promoted to an animator and a character designer for the following games. Although at first she wasn't given credit for her work in the company.

Following the bankruptcy of company Sogna, she transferred to Oobari Masami's newly established studio G-1 Neo, where she worked as a character designer on Gravion Zwei as well as on several rated 18+ productions.

Starting from 2007 she changed from using a pseudonym to her real name, and started participating in non-ero productions.