竹田悠介

Twitter He grew up in Mexico because of his parents' work. In elementary school he read Ishinomori Shoutarou's Cyborg 009. Later he experienced the Yamato and Gundam boom, prompting him to be interested in animation. He started working as background artist, later becoming freelance. During that time Takeda got acquainted with Tokuhiro Hiragi and Tatsuya Kushida, whom he then helped establishing the art studio Bihou in 1993. In 2005 he established the independent art studio Bamboo, which became a company in 2007. (Source: AniDB)