is a Japanese

animator An animator is an artist who creates multiple images, known as frames, which give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, and video gam ...

and character designer. His debut as a chief character designer was with

Hime-chan's Ribbon is a magical girl manga series created by Megumi Mizusawa that was serialized in Ribon Magazine from August 1990 to January 1994. It was later developed into a 61 episode anime series, produced by Studio Gallop, that aired from October 2, ...

, and he has frequently worked with

Akitaro Daichi is a Japanese anime director, producer and photography director. Career Daichi is a native of Gunma Prefecture and a graduate of Tokyo Polytechnic University. He originally aspired to be a stage photographer, but entered the employ of Tokyo A ...

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 ...

titles.

Works

* Akazukin Chacha:Character Design, Animation Director (episodes 14, 26, 40, 51, 65) *

Animation Runner Kuromi is an OVA anime film produced by Yumeta Company; part 1 in 2001 and part 2 in 2004. It is a parody of the anime production business itself. It was released on DVD in North America by Central Park Media. Plot ''Animation Runner Kuromi'' ''1' ...

:Character Design, Animation Director * Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran:Character Design * Cross Fight B-Daman:Assistant producer *

Cross Fight B-Daman eS ''B-Daman Fireblast'', known in Japan as , is the second B-Daman anime series in the ''Crossfire'' saga, succeeding ''B-Daman Crossfire'', and is based on the Emblem Charge System introduced in the toyline in September 2012. It premiered on ...

:Assistant producer * Ginga e Kickoff!!:Character Design, Chief Animation Director *

Hiatari Ryōkō! is a high-school romance manga by Mitsuru Adachi. It was published by Shogakukan in 1979–1981 in the magazine ''Shōjo Comic'' and collected in five tankōbon volumes. It was later adapted into a live-action television drama series, an a ...

:Animation Director *

:Character Design, Chief Animation Director, Animation Director (episodes 1, 6, 11, 17, 23, 26, 29, 32, 35, 39, 42, 45, 51, 56, 60) * Kaleido Star:Character Design, Chief Animation Director *

Kero Kero Chime is a manga written by Maguro Fujita. A 30-episode anime series based on the manga was produced by NAS and TV Tokyo and animated by Studio Comet. Plot Aoi, a normal school boy, is cursed by a wizard named Makaeru from the Land of Frogs, ...

:Main Character Design *

Kiteretsu Daihyakka is a Japanese manga series by duo Fujiko Fujio and later Fujiko F. Fujio, which ran in the children's magazine '' Kodomo no Hikari'' from April 1974 to July 1977. The manga was later made into a 331-episode anime television series which ran ...

:Character Design, Chief Animation Director * Kodomo no Omocha:Character Design * Les Misérables: Shōjo Cosette:Character Design *

Now and Then, Here and There is a Japanese anime television series conceived and directed by Akitaro Daichi, with a screenplay by Hideyuki Kurata. It premiered in Japan on the WOWOW television station on October 14, 1999 and ran until January 20, 2000. It was licensed ...

:Key Animation (episodes 1, 13) *

Nurse Angel Ririka SOS is a Japanese shōjo manga series created by music producer and television writer Yasushi Akimoto and manga creator Koi Ikeno. The manga was serialized in '' Ribon Magazine'' from January 1995 to June 1996, and subsequently collected into fo ...

:Character Design, Chief Animation Director, Animation Director (episodes 6, 11, 15–16, 24) * Ojarumaru:Character Design * School Rumble:Character Design, Animation Director (Opening; Ending; episode 1) *

Tamayura is a Japanese anime series written and directed by Junichi Sato. The initial four-episode original video animation (OVA) series was produced by Hal Film Maker and released over two Blu-ray Disc and DVD volumes in November and December 201 ...

:Animation Director (episode 2, 4) * Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari:Character Design, Chief Animation Director *

Uta Kata is a 2004 anime television series. Written differently (泡沫), the title can refer to bubbles and used as such in the ending theme. The series can be loosely considered a magical girl story. However, this series deviates from more conven ...

:Ending Illustration (episode 8) * Captain Tsuasa (2018): Character Design

External links

* * 1957 births Living people Japanese animators Anime character designers {{Anime-bio-stub