Yukiko Horiguchi  She is the older sister of BUNBUN (also known as abec), also a light novel illustrator, responsible for the illustration of the light novel Sword Art Online, , original character designer on the anime Sakura Quest, and many more works. She is very close to her younger brother and was once part of a doujinshi circle with him. After graduating from junior college, Horiguchi joined Kyoto Animation in 2003. Her first position was as an animator for the television anime Crayon Shin-chan, and began work as a key animator for the first time on Episode 163 of Inuyasha. Her first work as a character designer was for Lucky☆Star. She has also worked on anime such as K-ON! and Tamako Market. In 2007, she illustrated her first light novel, and since then, she continued to do it for many works on the market. Horiguchi's last credited work at Kyoto Animation was as the character designer and animation director on Tamako Market in 2013. Since then she decided to become a freelancer and work on different projects of anime and mainly as an illustrator of light novels.