Birthplace: Niihama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Aki Kouno is best known for her work in stop motion animation. She studied at Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts before going on to complete a graduate degree in animation at Tokyo University of the Arts, specifically from the Department of Animation in the Graduate School of Image Studies.

You can find her on Twitter at @give_aki and her YouTube channel is @KONO Aki.