Masashi Kudō(工藤昌史Kudō Masashi) is an employee of the Japanese animation company Studio Pierrot, he is currently working on the adaptation of the Bleach manga into anime, along with the series' creator, Tite Kubo. He is also responsible from the design of some minor tertiary characters that do not appear in the manga and from the selection of colours for characters which have not been illustrated; this last task is also made in collaboration with the series' creator. He has also made collaborations on several OVA's and ONA's; mostly as a character designer or key animator.