Takeshi Honda (animator)

Takeshi Honda (本田 雄, Honda Takeshi; born March 12, 1968 in Ishikawa Prefecture) is a Japanese animator, designer, and animation director.

Honda is one of Japan's outstanding animators. He is best known for his character design and animation directing work on Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo, The Boy and the Heron, Millennium Actress and Den-noh Coil. While Honda is an animator who draws realistic, theatrical characters, he also specializes in catchy "Bishōjo" characters. He was nicknamed Shisho (師匠, Shishō; lit. 'master') from the early days of his career.

Honda made his debut as an animator with the inbetweening for the 1987 OVA Relic Armor Legaciam and debuted as character designer on the series Metal Fighter Miku in 1994.