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anime is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japane ...

director Director may refer to: Literature * ''Director'' (magazine), a British magazine * ''The Director'' (novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker * ''The Director'' (play), a 2000 play by Nancy Hasty Music * Director (band), an Irish rock band * ''Di ...

born July 25, 1950, in

Kōchi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Kōchi Prefecture has a population of 757,914 (1 December 2011) and has a geographic area of 7,103 km2 (2,742 sq mi). Kōchi Prefecture borders Ehime Prefecture to the northwest and ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. After leaving Tokyo Designer Gakuin in the middle of his studies, he joined A Production (then known as Shin'ei Dōga). In 1982, with some of the staff producing ''

Kaibutsu-kun is a shōnen manga and anime series by Fujiko A. Fujio named after its protagonist. The first series was broadcast on TBS from April 21, 1968 to March 23, 1969. The second series was broadcast on TV Asahi from September 2, 1980 to Sept ...

'' (including Yoshinobu Sanada,

Toshiyuki Honda Toshiyuki Honda (born April 9, 1957, Tokyo) is a Japanese jazz musician and composer. Honda's father was a jazz critic, whose name was also Toshiyuki Honda. As a jazz musician, he learned flute and saxophone, and worked in the late 1970s with Geor ...

, and

Makoto Moriwaki is an anime director born in Hokkaidō, Japan. In 1982, Moriwaki founded (now known as ) with Yoshinobu Sanada, Toshiyuki Honda, and Hiroshi Fukutomi). From the first ''Doraemon'' movie produced by Shin'ei Dōga until 1989, she was in charge of ...

), Fukutomi founded , now known as

Studio Comet is an animation studio with its headquarters in Toyotamanaka, Nerima, Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Fo ...

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Art of Fighting is a fighting video game trilogy that were released for the Neo Geo platform in the early 1990s. It was the second fighting game franchise created by SNK, following the ''Fatal Fury'' series and is set in the same fictional universe as a pr ...

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Battle Angel (OVA) ''Battle Angel'', known in Japan as , is a 1993 original video animation (OVA) based on the ''Battle Angel Alita'' manga series by Yukito Kishiro. It is directed by Hiroshi Fukutomi, and jointly produced by KSS Inc., Movic, Animate and Ma ...

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Captain Tsubasa J is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yōichi Takahashi. The series mainly revolves around the sport of association football focusing on Tsubasa Oozora and his relationship with his friends, rivalries with h ...

'' *'' Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur'' *'' Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf'' *'' Flint the Time Detective'' *''

Galactic Patrol Lensman is a Japanese anime television series based on the ''Lensman'' novels by E. E. "Doc" Smith. The 25-episode series aired from October 6, 1984 to August 8, 1985 in Japan. Harmony Gold USA created an English dubbed compilation of episodes 1-3 ...

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Highschool! Kimen-gumi is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Motoei Shinzawa. A first series ''Third Year Funny-face Club'' was serialized in Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from October 1980 to April 1982. ''High School! Kimengumi'' was seri ...

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'' (2nd series) *'' Locke the Superman Witch Era'' *''

The Marshmallow Times is a manga and a seven cell manga by Lun Lun Yamamoto. They were first published from 2004 to 2006 in the magazines ''Asahi Shōgakusei Shimbun'' and ''Asahi Chūgakusei Weekly'' (Asahi Shimbun group), and subsequently adapted into anime seri ...

'' *'' Old Master Q and his Little Water Margin Tale'' *'' Suzuka'' * ''Those Who Hunt Elves 2'' *''

Whistle! is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Daisuke Higuchi. The series was published in Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from March 1998 to October 2002. The series was adapted into a 39-episode anime television series broadc ...

'' *'' Hello, Hiroshi and Utako'' (spin-off of ''Kaibutsu-kun'') (from the end of 2010 at 2011)

External links

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Interview with Hiroshi Fukutomi and Toshiyuki Honda
* Anime directors 1950 births Living people People from Kōchi Prefecture {{Japan-film-director-stub