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Hiroyuki Imaishi
Director, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn October 4, 1971 (54 years)
Hiroyuki Imaishi (今石 洋之, born October 4, 1971) is a Japanese key animator and anime/anime influenced animation director and one of the co-founders of Trigger. His style is marked by fast and frantic animation combined with elaborate storyboarding and punchy direction. Prior to founding Trigger, he was an animator and director at Gainax.
His series director debut was Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (2007). The anime received an Excellence Prize at the 2007 Japan Media Arts Festival, and Imaishi himself received an individual award at the twelfth Animation Kobe Festival. In 2008, the anime received both "best television production" and "best character design" from the Tokyo International Anime Fair. Later he went on to work as director in the 2010 anime series, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. His main influence of being an animator and director are Yoshinori Kanada and his works, in which all his anime titles such as Dead Leaves, Gurren Lagann and Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt pay special tributes to him and his art.
In 2011, Imaishi branched off Gainax to form a new studio, Trigger, alongside Masahiko Ohtsuka and others. His first directorial work at the studio is Kill la Kill.
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His series director debut was Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (2007). The anime received an Excellence Prize at the 2007 Japan Media Arts Festival, and Imaishi himself received an individual award at the twelfth Animation Kobe Festival. In 2008, the anime received both "best television production" and "best character design" from the Tokyo International Anime Fair. Later he went on to work as director in the 2010 anime series, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. His main influence of being an animator and director are Yoshinori Kanada and his works, in which all his anime titles such as Dead Leaves, Gurren Lagann and Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt pay special tributes to him and his art.
In 2011, Imaishi branched off Gainax to form a new studio, Trigger, alongside Masahiko Ohtsuka and others. His first directorial work at the studio is Kill la Kill.
Source: Wikipedia
Hiroyuki Imaishi Filmography
| 2021 | Star Wars: Visions (TV Series) |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | |
| 2016 | Space Patrol Luluco (TV Series) |
| 2015 | |
| 2014 | Japan Animator Expo (TV Series) |
| 2013 | Kill la Kill (TV Series) |
| 2012 | Black Rock Shooter (TV Series) |
| 2009 | |
| 2008 | |
| 2004 | |
| 2004 | Re: Cutie Honey (TV Series) |
| 2004 | |
| 2002 | Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (TV Series) |
| 2001 | Parappa the Rapper (TV Series) |
| 1999 | Medabots (TV Series) |
| 2016 | Space Patrol Luluco (TV Series) |
| 1998 | His and Her Circumstances (TV Series) |
| 2022 | Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (TV Series) · as Series Director |
| 2022 | Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (TV Series) · as Opening/ending Animation |
| 2021 | Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time · as Key Animation |
| 2020 | BNA (TV Series) · as Action Director |
| 2020 | BNA (TV Series) · as Key Animation |
| 2019 | Promare · as Art Direction |
| 2019 | Promare: Galo-hen · as Art Direction |
| 2019 | Promare: Lio-hen · as Art Direction |
| 2019 | Promare · as Key Animation |
| 2019 | Promare: Galo-hen · as Key Animation |
| 2018 | DARLING in the FRANXX (TV Series) · as Action Director |
| 2017 | Little Witch Academia (TV Series) · as Key Animation |
| 2016 | Space Patrol Luluco (TV Series) · as Key Animation |
| 2015 | Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade · as Key Animation |
| 2015 | Ninja Slayer From Animation (TV Series) · as Character Designer |
| 2015 | Sex & Violence with Machspeed · as Key Animation |
| 2015 | Sex & Violence with Machspeed · as Original Story |
| 2014 | Japan Animator Expo (TV Series) · as Key Animation |
| 2013 | Kill la Kill (TV Series) · as Key Animation |
| 2012 | Inferno Cop (TV Series) · as Series Director |
| 2012 | Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo · as Key Animation |
| 2012 | Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine (TV Series) · as Key Animation |
| 2010 | STAR DRIVER: Takuto of the Radiance (TV Series) · as Key Animation |
| 2010 | Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt (TV Series) · as Series Director |
| 2010 | Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt (TV Series) · as Storyboard |
| 2009 | |
| 2009 | Gurren Lagann the Movie: The Lights in the Sky are Stars · as Animation Director |
| 2008 | Gurren Lagann the Movie: Childhood's End · as Key Animation |
| 2008 | Rosario + Vampire (TV Series) · as Key Animation |
| 2007 | Gurren Lagann (TV Series) · as Series Director |
| 2007 | Gurren Lagann (TV Series) · as Key Animation |
| 2006 | Gunbuster vs. Diebuster: Aim for the Top! - The Gattai!! Movie · as Key Animation |
| 2005 | Gaiking: LEGEND OF DAIKU-MARYU (TV Series) · as Key Animation |
| 2005 | One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island · as Key Animation |
| 2004 | Re: Cutie Honey (TV Series) · as Key Animation |
| 2004 | This Ugly Yet Beautiful World (TV Series) · as Key Animation |
| 2004 | Dead Leaves · as Character Designer |
| 2003 | Fullmetal Alchemist (TV Series) · as Key Animation |
| 2003 | Lupin the Third: Operation Return the Tresure · as Key Animation |
| 2003 | Trava: Fist Planet (TV Series) · as Key Animation |
| 2002 | Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (TV Series) · as Animation Director |
| 2001 | Mahoromatic: Automatic Maiden (TV Series) · as Key Animation |
| 2001 | Lupin III: Alcatraz Connection · as Key Animation |
| 2000 | FLCL (TV Series) · as Key Animation |
| 2000 | Micronauts (TV Series) · as Key Animation |
| 1999 | Medabots (TV Series) · as Animation Director |
| 1999 | Medabots (TV Series) · as Storyboard |
| 1998 | Popolocrois Monogatari (TV Series) · as Key Animation |
| 1998 | His and Her Circumstances (TV Series) · as Animation Director |
| 1998 | Lupin the 3rd: Crisis in Tokyo · as Key Animation |
| 1997 | Virus Buster Serge (TV Series) · as Key Animation |
| 1997 | Lupin III: Island of Assassins · as Key Animation |
| 1997 | Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion · as Key Animation |
| 1997 | Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth · as Key Animation |
| 1995 | Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV Series) · as Key Animation |
| 1988 | Gunbuster (TV Series) · as Key Animation |