Biography:Ken'ichi Ishikura (石倉 賢一, Ishikura Ken'ichi) is a Japanese anime director and storyboard artist. He began his career as a production assistant in 2000. After several years working as a freelance episode director, in 2007 he began collaborating with Shaft as an episode director and storyboarder. For the next 5 years, he worked mainly for Shaft, and made his debut as a series director with Natsu no Arashi! Akinai-chū. Subsequently, he began to collaborate less with Shaft.