is a Japanese character designer and animation director for

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. His major works include the ''

Queen's Blade is a Japanese series of visual combat books published by Hobby Japan inspired by the licensed works from Firelight Game Company's '' Lost Worlds''. The overall plot of the game revolves around a tournament called the Queen's Blad ...

'' game series which was later made into an anime adaptation, the ''

My-Hime is a Japanese anime series, created by Sunrise. Directed by Masakazu Obara and written by Hiroyuki Yoshino, it premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo from September 2004 to March 2005. The series focuses on the lives of HiMEs—girls with the capa ...

'' and ''

My-Otome is an anime series created by Sunrise. Directed by Masakazu Obara and written by Hiroyuki Yoshino, it is a spinoff of ''My-HiME'' anime series and as such ''My-Otome'' takes place in a new setting with new main characters. The series origi ...

'' series, and numerous titles from the ''Brave''

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series.

Filmography

Video games

Other works

* ''

'' game books – Character design * ''Queen's Blade Perfect Visual Collection'' (art book) – Character art (contributor)

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External links

* * Sunrise (company) people Living people Japanese animators Japanese animated film directors 1967 births {{anime-bio-stub