(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 created by Sunrise. It aired from October 2001 to January 2003, with 68 episodes. A standalone sequel titled aired from February 2003 to January 2004. Premise Crus ...

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" '' Sunrise Animation''. Retrieved on January 20, 2009. ''

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

'', ''

Yamato Takeru , originally , was a Japanese folk hero and semi-legendary prince of the imperial dynasty, son of Emperor Keikō, who is traditionally counted as the 12th Emperor of Japan. The kanji spelling of his name varies: it appears in the ''Nihon Shoki'' ...

'' and several other series.

Director

Television

* chief/series director denoted in bold * '' Gaiking'' (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 ...

'' (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 . 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 September 28, 1982. A live-action series w ...

'' (1980-1982) * ''

Queen Millennia is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated 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 ...

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

Aura Battler Dunbine is an anime television series created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and produced by Sotsu and Sunrise. Forty-nine episodes aired on Nagoya TV from February 5, 1983, to January 21, 1984. A three-episode anime OVA sequel entitled ''New Story of Aura ...

'' (1983-1984) * ''

Lady Georgie is a manga series, written by Mann Izawa and illustrated by Yumiko Igarashi. It was serialized from 1982 to 1984 in the ''Shōjo Comic'' manga magazine. The series was adapted in 1983 into an anime television series, , by TMS Entertainment, ...

'' (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 Dei ...

'' (1984) * ''

Heavy Metal L-Gaim is a mecha anime television series, begun in 1984, which was created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino. Its characters and mecha In science fiction, or mechs are giant robots or machines, typically depicted as piloted, humanoid walking ...

'' (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'' (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 "st ...

'' (1987-1988) * ''

'' (1988-1989) * ''

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

'' (1989-1990) * ''

Mashin Hero Wataru 2 Mashin (, 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 the Islamic Republic ...

'' (1990-1991) * '' Mama wa Shōgaku 4 Nensei'' (1992) * ''

'' (1994) * ''Kuma no Putaro'' (1996) * '' Shōnen Santa no Daibôken'' (1996) * '' Super Mashin Hero Wataru''Cho Majin Hero Wataru
" '' Sunrise Animation''. 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 film ''Seven Samurai is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai action film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a scre ...

'' (2004) * ''

Onmyō Taisenki is a Japanese mixed-media project developed by and Bandai. A manga series, scripted by Yoshihiko Tomizawa and illustrated by Hiroyuki Kaidō, was serialized in Shueisha's '' V Jump'' magazine from November 2003 to December 2005, with its ...

'' (2004-2005) * ''

Yakitate!! Japan is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takashi Hashiguchi. It was serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from December 2001 to January 2007, with its chapters collected in 26 volumes. A 69-ep ...

'' (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 t ...

'' (2005-2011) * ''

Dinosaur King is a 2005 card-based arcade video 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 rele ...

'' (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 (company), Sunrise's long-running ''Gundam'' franchise, and a sequel to the 2013 series ''Gundam Build Fighters''. Like its predecessor, and in contrast to other '' ...

'' (2014-2015) * ''

Aikatsu! is a multimedia franchise spawned from 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 ...

'' (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 el ...

'' (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 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 produced by NAS and TV Tokyo, animated ...

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

Writer

* series head writer denoted in bold * ''

'' (1988-1989) * ''

'' (1989-1990) * ''

'' (1990-1991) * '' Mama wa Shōgaku 4 Nensei'' (1992) * '' Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream'' (2011-2012) * '' Pretty Rhythm: Dear My Future'' (2012-2013) * '' Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live'' (2013-2014)

References

External links

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