Yôichi Kotabe

Yōichi Kotabe , is a Japanese animator and character designer and has worked on several anime films from the 1960s and 1970s. as well as working on the Super Mario video game series and the Pokémon television series and films. Kotabe worked as an employee on Nintendo for two decades doing illustrations, character designs and supervising those from 1985 to 2007, when he began to work as a freelancer for the anime and video game industry, including for Nintendo again, this time as a freelancer.