is a Japanese anime producer. Some of his major works include

Yasuhiro Nightow is a Japanese manga artist. His major work ''Trigun'' was adapted into an anime series and film. He also designed the characters for the video game and anime series ''Gungrave'', and has been working on the manga ''Blood Blockade Battlefront''. ...

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Trigun is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yasuhiro Nightow. ''Trigun'' was first serialized in Tokuma Shoten's Shōnen manga, ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Monthly Shōnen Captain'' from April 1995 to January 1997, when the mag ...

'' television series as well as Nightow's other series ''

Gungrave is a 2002 third-person shooter video game developed and published by Red Entertainment (Sega in North America and Activision in Europe) for the PlayStation 2. ''Gungrave'' follows its main character through a variety of stages on a path of rev ...

''. He has worked on

Shinichi Watanabe is a Japanese anime director and voice actor. He is best known for his over-the-top adaptation of Rikdo Koshi's ''Excel Saga'', in which he appears as the character Nabeshin. Watanabe stated that the nickname Nabeshin (a name blending of ...

's adaptation of ''

Excel Saga is a manga series written and illustrated by Kōshi Rikudō. It was serialized in '' Young King OURs'' from 1996 to 2011, and its individual chapters were collected and published in 27 ''tankōbon'' volumes by Shōnen Gahōsha. The series fol ...

'' and the ''

Geobreeders is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akihiro Ito. It was serialized in Shōnen Gahōsha's ''seinen'' manga magazine '' Young King OURs'' from 1993 to 2009, before entering on hiatus. Its chapters were collected in sixtee ...

'' OVA series. He worked with Koichi Mashimo of

Bee Train , commonly referred to simply as Bee Train, is a Japanese animation studio founded by Kōichi Mashimo in 1997. Since their involvement with '' Noir'', '' .hack//Sign'', and ''Madlax'' (among other series) they have a strong following in the yuri f ...

on producing what would later be known as the "girls with guns" series starting with '' Noir'' in 2001, then ''

Madlax is a 26-episode Japanese anime television series produced in 2004 by the Bee Train animation studio. Kōichi Mashimo directed ''Madlax'' and the soundtrack was composed by Yuki Kajiura. The DVD version was released by ADV Films in North Americ ...

'' in 2004, and finally ''

El Cazador de la Bruja is an anime television series directed by Kōichi Mashimo and animated by Bee Train studio. It is a spiritual successor of '' Noir'' and '' Madlax'' and the final installment of Bee Train's "girls-with-guns" trilogy. The series was aired on T ...

'' in 2007. In 2010 he attended

Anime Expo Anime Expo, abbreviated AX, is an American anime convention held in Los Angeles, California and organized by the non-profit Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation (SPJA). The convention is traditionally held annually on the first we ...

to watch the premiere of ''Trigun: Badlands Rumble''.

Works

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Ninja Scroll is a 1993 Japanese animated ''jidaigeki''- ''chanbara'' film written and directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, starring the voices of Kōichi Yamadera, Emi Shinohara, Takeshi Aono, Daisuke Gōri, Toshihiko Seki and Shūichirō Moriyama. The film was a ...

'' (1993 film), Assistant producer * ''

801 T.T.S. Airbats ''801 T.T.S. Airbats'', known in Japan as , is a manga by Shimizu Toshimitsu which was later adapted into a seven episode anime series, produced by Studio Fantasia and Victor Entertainment , also known as in Japan, is a subsidiary of J ...

'' (1994

OVA , abbreviated as OVA and sometimes as OAV (original animation video), are Japanese animated films and series made specially for release in home video formats without prior showings on television or in theaters, though the first part of an OVA s ...

series), Producer * ''

'' (1998 TV series), Producer * ''

'' (1998 OVA series), Producer * ''

'' (1999 TV series), Producer * '' Geobreeders 2'' (2000 OVA series), Producer * '' Noir'' (2001 TV series), Producer * '' Aquarian Age: Sign for Evolution'' (2002 TV series), Producer * ''

'' (2003 TV series), Producer, Soundtrack Executive Producer * ''

'' (2004 TV series), Producer, Soundtrack Supervisor * ''

'' (2007 TV series), Producer * '' Trigun: Badlands Rumble'' (2010 Movie), Producer ; Cast in * ''

Puni Puni Poemy is a Japanese two-part original video animation spin-off from the ''Excel Saga'' manga and anime television series. It features some of that series' secondary characters and many of its staff, primarily director Shinichi Watanabe. Like ''Exc ...

'' (2001 OVA series), Producer Kitayama ; Mentioned * '' 旅する少女と灼熱の国'', worked with the author

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