Shinji Higuchi

 is a storyboard artist, particularly in anime, and one of the top special effects supervisors in Japan, best known in the west for his work on Shusuke Kaneko's "Gamera" trilogy in the 1990s. He works on both anime and tokusatsu projects.
Biography.
As a key Daicon/Gainax member, he played an important part in the creation of one of the most popular anime series, "Neon Genesis Evangelion" (1995). He was a writer and art director/storyboarder for the series. He was also the namesake for the show's protagonist, Shinji Ikari. He later voice-acted a musician modeled after himself in 2 episodes of "Karekano".