is a Japanese animator and animation director, best known for ''

Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel is a magical girl anime television series produced by Pierrot which aired from 1983 to 1984 on Nippon Television. It went on to have four OVA adaptions and featured in other Studio Pierrot special presentations. A three-volume manga wa ...

''. He was born in Fuchuu-shi,

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. He belongs to

Ajia-do Animation Works is a Japanese animation studio established on October 4, 1978. It is noted for anime series including ''Spirit of Wonder'', ''Absolute Boy'', '' Izetta: The Last Witch'', and several others, including the long-running NHK series ''Nintama Rantar� ...

. In 1963, he entered

Toei Animation () is a Japanese animation studio primarily controlled by its namesake Toei Company. It has produced numerous series, including ''Sally the Witch,'' '' GeGeGe no Kitarō,'' '' Mazinger Z'', '' Galaxy Express 999'', '' Cutie Honey'', '' Dr. Slu ...

at the same time as

Tsutomu Shibayama is a Japanese anime director of film and television. He is known for directing the 1980 and 2006 '' Doraemon'' series. He was born in Asakusa, Taitō, Tokyo. In 2012 he won Agency for Cultural Affair Award.Hayao Miyazaki is a Japanese animator, director, producer, screenwriter, author, and manga artist. A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, he has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and creator of Japanese animated feature films, and is widel ...

. He was a chief animator working with Shibayama after having transferred to a A Production (predecessor to

Shin-Ei Animation is a Japanese animation studio owned by TV Asahi and founded in Tokyo in 1965 as A-Production by Daikichirō Kusube, who was previously an animator for Toei Animation. Shin-Ei is known for being the animation studio behind two of the anime tele ...

). He established Ajia-do Animation Works with Shibayama in 1978.

Filmography

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'' * ''

Kimagure Orange Road is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Izumi Matsumoto. It was serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' magazine from 1984 to 1987, with the chapters collected into 18 ''tankōbon'' volumes by Shueisha. The story follows tee ...

'' * ''

Onegai! Samia-don is a Japanese anime that was broadcast from 2 April 1985 to 4 February 1986 with a total of 78 episodes produced. This anime is based on the 1902 novel ''Five Children and It'' by English author Edith Nesbit. The anime differs from the novel ...

'' * '' Chiisana Obake Acchi, Kocchi, Socchi''

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