Yamashita, Ikuto

Yamashita Ikuto is a Japanese male mangaka and designer. He was born in the Gifu Prefecture, Japan and is a graduate of the Nagoya University Of Arts. His representative work in manga is Dark Whisper (serialised in Dengeki Daioh). In the field of anime, he is the mecha designer in the Neon Genesis Evangelion series and Sentou Yousei Yukikaze. The designs for Yukikaze were originally drawn as recreation as well as Sentou Yousei Shoujo Tasukete! Mave-chan. Besides Evangelion, he has also done mecha designs for other Gainax works including Gunbuster and Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water and was also the mechanical designer for Blue Submarine 6. (Source: AniDB)