Art · 1932–2022 · Hokkaido, Japan
Shichiro Kobayashi was an art director and a guest professor at Kobe Design University. In 1968 he joined Gendai Seisaku Shuudan but left in the same year to establish his own studio, Kobayashi Production, where he served as the representative director until the studio's closure in February 2011. After that he left the animation industry.