is a Japanese director and

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artist best known for co-directing ''

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'' with

Akiyuki Shinbo is a Japanese animator, director, compositional writer, and storyboard artist. Best known for his works with Shaft (company), Shaft, he has attained international recognition for his unique visual style and storytelling methods. Born in Koori, ...

Career

Kamitsubo began his career in the anime industry as a production manager for Film Magic in the early 90s. He transitioned to digital photography and visual effects work for Media Vision and, later,

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in the mid and late 90s. In the early 2000s, he started doing episode directing and storyboard work. In 2004, he worked under

on the original anime series ''

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'', and the following year was brought into Shaft by Shinbo, where his first project with the company was as an episode director on '' Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase''. He would later make his series directorial debut with Shinbo and Shaft in 2007 with ''

''. Shinbo considered Kamitsubo, (at the time) setting designer Tatsuya Oishi, and art director

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to be the core staff responsible for the foundations of the style and presentation of ''Hidamari Sketch'', even after both Kamitsubo and Oishi had left the series' production in their respective seasons. Kamitsubo continued working with Shaft for a few years before deciding to base his work mostly out of

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, including his own series '' Softenni'' and '' Hen Semi''. In 2012, however, he announced that he would be leaving the industry, and his final work would be as a storyboard artist and episode director on the tenth episode of '' To Love Ru: Darkness'' under the pseudonym . Despite this, Kamitsubo returned to the industry in 2014, acting as a storyboard artist for Xebec's series ''

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'' beginning with the 13th episode. Since 2017, Kamitsubo has mainly worked on series produced by

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Television series

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Keisuke Shinohara ,

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'' , Takaharu Ōkuma , Doga Kobo , , , , , - , rowspan="3", 2021 , ''

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'' , Kenta Ōnishi ,

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Don't Hurt Me, My Healer! is a Japanese fantasy comedy manga series by Tannen ni Hakkō. It has been serialized online via Kadokawa's ''ComicWalker'' website since July 2019 and has been collected in eight ''tankōbon'' volumes. An anime television series adaptation by ...

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Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie is a Japanese romantic comedy manga series by Keigo Maki. It was serialized on Kodansha's ''Magazine Pocket'' website and app from February 2019 to February 2023, with its chapters collected in 20 ''tankōbon'' volumes as of April 2023. The ...

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Healer Girl is an original Japanese anime television series animated by studio 3Hz. The series is directed by Yasuhiro Irie, written by Noboru Kimura, and features character designs by Yukie Akiya, and music composed by Ryo Takahashi. It features singer ...

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Yasuhiro Irie is a Japanese animator, character designer and anime director. Biography Beginning his career at Sunrise, Irie worked as an animation director and animator on several productions before transitioning into directing. He made his directorial debu ...

3Hz was a Japanese animation studio established by ex-Kinema Citrus animators. Yuichiro Matsuka founded the studio in March 2013. The company is referred to as Studio 3 Hz in anime credits. On June 17, 2024, 3 Hz announced that it had tran ...

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