Yoshiyuki Tomino
As with fellow directors Hayao Miyazaki and Yoshiyuki Tomino, Ikuhara's works (especially "Mawaru Penguindrum" and "Yurikuma Arashi") contain certain criticisms of the capitalist system. In Ikuhara, such criticisms are often accompanied by a more or less latent distrust towards the whole social order, or even human nature itself.