(September 15, 1950 – December 15, 2016) was a director of anime series. Iuchi directed ''

Crush Gear Turbo ''Crush Gear'', known in Japan as , is a Japanese anime television series produced by Sunrise. It aired from October 2001 to January 2003, with 68 episodes. The series is about people throwing mechanical vehicles called "Gears" into a large ...

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" ''

Sunrise Animation , previously and still famously known as Sunrise Inc., is a Japanese animation studio founded in September 1972 and is based in Ogikubo, Tokyo. Its former names were also Soeisha, Nippon Sunrise and Sunrise Studio. Its primary division, , is re ...

''. Retrieved on January 20, 2009. ''

Mashin Hero Wataru is a mecha multimedia franchise originally created by Sunrise and Red Entertainment. The first series aired on April 15, 1988, replacing the 17:00–17:30 timeslot used for '' Transformers: The Headmasters''. Sunrise credited "Hajime Y ...

'', ''

Yamato Takeru , originally , was a Japanese semi-legendary prince of the Yamato dynasty, son of Emperor Keikō, who is traditionally counted as the 12th Emperor of Japan. His name written in kanji can vary, in the '' Nihon Shoki'' it is spelled 日本武尊 a ...

'' and several other series.

Director

Television

* chief/series director denoted in bold * ''

Gaiking is a Japanese Super Robot mecha anime series produced by Toei Animation. For distribution purposes, Toei refers to this television series as ''Dino-Mecha Gaiking'' or simply ''Gaiking''. It ran from April 1976 through January 1977 and cons ...

'' (1976) * ''

Star of the Giants is a Japanese sports manga series written by Ikki Kajiwara and illustrated by Noboru Kawasaki. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from 1966 to 1971. It is about the actual baseball team Yomiuri Giants using fic ...

'' (1977) * ''Cho Super Car Gattaiger'' (1977) * '' Shin Ace o Nerae!'' (1978) * ''

Galaxy Express 999 is a Japanese manga series. It is written and illustrated by Leiji Matsumoto, later adapted into a number of anime films and television series. It is set in a spacefaring, high-tech future in which humans have learned how to transfer ...

'' (1978-1981) * ''

The Monster Kid 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 S ...

'' (1980-1982) * ''

Queen Millennia is a manga series by Leiji Matsumoto which was serialized from 28 January 1980 through 11 May 1983 in both the ''Sankei Shimbun'' and '' Nishinippon Sports'' newspapers. The manga series was adapted into a 42-episode anime television serie ...

'' (1981) * ''Ninjaman Ippei'' (1982) * ''

Aura Battler Dunbine is an anime television series created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and produced by Sotsu and Sunrise. ''Dunbine'' is set in Byston Well, a parallel world that resembles the countryside of medieval Europe with kingdoms ruled by monarchs in castles, ...

'' (1983-1984) * '' Lady Georgie'' (1983-1984) * ''

God Mazinger , also known as , is an anime, manga and novel series created by manga artist Go Nagai. The anime aired on Japanese TV from to in the network Nippon Television with 23 episodes. It is given the international title ''Space Adventure: The D ...

'' (1984) * ''

Heavy Metal L-Gaim is a mecha anime television series, begun in 1984, which was directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino. Its characters and mecha were designed by Mamoru Nagano, who would later go on to create ''The Five Star Stories''. ''Heavy Metal L-Gaim'' takes place ...

'' (1984-1985) * ''

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam is a 1985 Japanese television anime series, the second installment in the ''Gundam'' franchise, and a sequel to the original ''Mobile Suit Gundam''. The show was created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, with character designs by Yoshikazu ...

'' (1985-1986) * ''

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 ...

'' (1985-1986) * ''Pro Golfer Saru'' (1985-1988) * '' Honey Bee in Toycomland'' (1986-1987) * ''

Metal Armor Dragonar is a 48-episode mecha anime series, created by Nippon Sunrise (later renamed Sunrise during production) and aired from 1987 to 1988. Devised shortly after the release of ''Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ'', ''Dragonar'' was intended to be both a "sta ...

'' (1987-1988) * ''

'' (1988-1989) * ''

Madö King Granzört is a Japanese mecha animated series produced by Sunrise and Asatsu-DK, created and directed by Oji Hiroi (''Sakura Wars'', '' Far East of Eden'') and written by Shūji Iuchi (''Mashin Hero Wataru''). It aired in NTV from April 7, 1989 to ...

'' (1989-1990) * ''

Mashin Hero Wataru 2 Mashin ( fa, ماشين, also Romanized as Māshīn; also known as Deh-e Māshīn and Marshīn) is a village in Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District, Nukabad District, Khash County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran Iran, officially th ...

'' (1990-1991) * ''

Mama wa Shōgaku 4 Nensei is a Japanese anime television series directed by Shuji Iuchi and produced by Sunrise, Nippon TV and Asatsu-DK. The 51-episode series was first aired from January 10, 1992, through December 25, 1992. In 1993, ''Mama wa Shōgaku Yonensei'' ...

'' (1992) * ''

'' (1994) * ''Kuma no Putaro'' (1996) * '' Shōnen Santa no Daibôken'' (1996) * '' Super Mashin Hero Wataru''Cho Majin Hero Wataru
" ''

''. Retrieved on January 20, 2009. (1997-1998) * ''

'' (2001-2003) * ''

Samurai 7 ''Samurai 7'' (stylized as ''SAMURAI 7'') is a 2004 anime television series produced by Gonzo and based on the 1954 Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. ...

'' (2004) * ''

Onmyō Taisenki is a Japanese manga series scripted by Yoshihiko Tomizawa and illustrated by Hiroyuki Kaidō. It was adapted into an anime series produced by Sunrise, NAS, and TV Tokyo. Plot ''Onmyō Taisenki'' literally translates to 'The Chronicles of the ...

'' (2004-2005) * ''

Yakitate!! Japan is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takashi Hashiguchi. It was serialized in Shogakukan's ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from December 2001 to January 2007, with its chapters collected in 26 ''tankōbon'' volumes. A sixty-nine ...

'' (2004-2006) * ''

Speed Grapher ''Speed Grapher'' (stylized as ''SPEED GRAPHER'') is a 2005 anime series produced by Gonzo. The series ran for 24 episodes from April to October 2005 on TV Asahi. It tells the story of former war photographer, Tatsumi Saiga and his quest to ...

'' (2005) * ''

Sgt. Frog ''Sgt. Frog'', known in Japan as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mine Yoshizaki. It was launched in ''Monthly Shōnen Ace'' in April 1999. The story follows the attempts of a platoon of frog-like alien invaders to c ...

'' (2005-2011) * ''

Dinosaur King is a Japanese card-based arcade game from Sega that uses similar gameplay mechanics to '' Mushiking''. The game was revealed in JAMMA 2005. A Nintendo DS version was also later released. In the fall of 2008, Upper Deck Company released ...

'' (2007) * '' Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream'' (2011-2012) * '' Pretty Rhythm: Dear My Future'' (2012-2013) * '' Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live'' (2013-2014) * ''

Gundam Build Fighters Try is a 2014 Japanese science fiction anime television series based on Sunrise's long-running ''Gundam'' franchise, and a sequel to the 2013 series ''Gundam Build Fighters''. Like its predecessor, and in contrast to other ''Gundam'' series, ''G ...

'' (2014-2015) * ''

Aikatsu! is an arcade collectible card game in Bandai's ''Data Carddass'' line of machines, which launched in October 2012. The game revolves around using collectible cards featuring various clothes to help aspiring idols pass auditions. An ani ...

'' (2015) * '' Jewelpet: Magical Change'' (2015) * '' Rilu Rilu Fairilu ~Yousei no Door~'' (2016) * ''Flowering Heart'' (2016) * ''

Shōnen Maid is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ototachibana. A 12-episode anime television series adaptation aired between April and July 2016. Plot After the tragic death of his mother, Chihiro Komiya, an orphaned fourth grader in e ...

'' (2016) * '' Seisen Cerberus'' (2016) * '' Shōnen Ashibe: GO! GO! Goma-chan'' (2016)

Film

* ''Galaxy Investigation 2100: Border Planet'' (1986)

OVAs

* ''Love Position - The Legend of Halley'' (1985) * '' Mashin Hero Wataru: The Mashin Mountains'' (1989) * '' Mashin Hero Wataru: The Story of the End of Time'' (1993-1994) * '' Yamato Takeru: After War'' (1995) * ''

Kodocha , also known as ''Kodocha'' for short, is a Japanese manga series by Miho Obana. The series was adapted as an OVA by J.C. Staff and released on December 16, 1995 by Shueisha under their Ribon Video label. An anime television series was p ...

'' (1997) * '' The Galaxy Railways: A Letter from the Abandoned Planet'' (2007)

Writer

* series head writer denoted in bold * ''

'' (1988-1989) * ''

'' (1989-1990) * ''

'' (1990-1991) * ''

'' (1992) * '' Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream'' (2011-2012) * '' Pretty Rhythm: Dear My Future'' (2012-2013) * '' Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live'' (2013-2014)

References

External links

* * 1950 births 2016 deaths Anime directors People from Kanagawa Prefecture {{Japan-bio-stub