Yutaro Kubo, Satomi Maiya

Yutaro Kubo:
Born in Beppu in 1990, Kubo is a freelance visual artist who graduated from the Tokyo Polytechnic University and studied under Academy award-nominee Koji Yamamura’s seminar at the Tokyo University of the Arts. He has directed a number of hand-drawn style animated short films that screened at major festivals.

Satomi Maiya:
Born in Sendai in 1990, Maiya is an animator and illustrator who graduated from the Tokyo Polytechnic University and studied under Academy award-nominee Koji Yamamura’s seminar at the Tokyo University of the Arts. Many of her works feature pastel techniques, and screened at major animation festivals such as Annecy and Hiroshima.