Yoshimitsu Yamashita

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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 director on the TV show Ginyuu Mokushiroku Meine Liebe Wieder. A short while later, the animation department at Bee Train was spun off into new company, C-Station, and Yamashita moved with it. Today he retains a seat at C-Station, but regularly contracts out to work on various external projects.