Ebata Risa is a Japanese animator, artist, and character designer. She joined Silence, right out of high school, in 1996, making her debut as an in-between animator on Viper-BTR. She worked on several more titles from Silence, mainly for their adult brand Sogna.

When Silence went bankrupt she joined Oobari Masami's animation studio Studio G-1Neo. She also worked for Yui Koubou for a short time. Nowadays she works for the animation studio Satelight, where she is best known for her work on Macross F.