is a Japanese manga artist and character designer.
Biography Kubonouchi made his professional career debut in 1986 with the short story Okappiki Eiji published in the manga magazine Shōnen Sunday. From 1988 to 1991, he worked on his first series, Tsurumoku Dokushin Ryō, which was in 1991 made into a movie with Kōyō Maeda (ja) in the leading role. His second manga series, Watanabe, was made into a television series in 1993, directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. After a 7-year hiatus, Kubonouchi began Chocolat, a story about a former mob boss, just having been released from the prison, who befriends a 16-year-old girl. Chocolat was published from October 1999 to September 2003 in Big Comic Spirits. In 2003, the manga was made into a television drama, that lasted 45 episodes.
Works Title Year Notes Refs 1988–91 Serialized in Big Comic Spirits, 7 volumes 1992 Serialized in Big Comic Spirits, 3 volumes Chocolat 1999–2003 Serialized in Big Comic SpiritsPublished by Shogakukan, 7 volumes 2006–07 Published in Big Comic Spirits, 4 volumes 2008–10 Published in Evening Kodansha Comics, 3 volumes Sono Toki, Kanojo wa2018Original creator, Character DesignBullbuster2018Original Character DesignCarole & Tuesday2019Original Character DesignAstro Note2024Original Character Design
Other works +Other worksTitleRefsCharacter redesign for Cup Noodle AdsSazae-sanHeidi, Girl of the AlpsKiki's Delivery ServiceOne Piece
References
External links
Interview with Eisaku Kubonouchi about dramatizing Chocolat (Web Archive) List of Eisaku Kubonouchi's works at Shogakukan official site