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Yasuhiro Takemoto

Director, Writer, Additional Credits
Born April 5, 1972Died July 18, 2019 (47 years)
Yasuhiro Takemoto (Japanese: 武本 康弘, April 5, 1972 – July 18, 2019) was a Japanese animator and television and film director. He worked at Kyoto Animation for almost his entire animation career after joining the company in 1996.

His first major job as a director came in 2003 with Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu. Two years later he directed his sequel: The Second Raid. In 2007, Takemoto replaced Lucky Star director Yutaka Yamamoto after his dismissal. He led The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya and Nyorōn Churuya-san original net animation series, and was co-director with Tatsuya Ishihara of the second season of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, broadcast in 2009, as well as the film The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya.

In 2012 he was in charge of directing Hyouka, based on a series of mystery novels by Honobu Yonezawa. In the series collaborated as screenwriter Shoji Gatoh, author of Full Metal Panic!. Two years later, in 2014, Takemoto was commissioned to direct another series of Gatoh novels, Amagi Brilliant Park.

Four days after the Kyoto Animation arson attack on July 18, 2019, Takemoto was declared missing by his father, who stated "he was untraceable". His death was later confirmed by his relatives and authorities.

Source: Wikipedia

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Liz and the Blue Bird

Known For

  • The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
  • Hyouka
  • Full Metal Panic!
  • Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
  • Violet Evergarden
  • The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
  • InuYasha
  • Lucky Star
  • Clannad
  • Beyond the Boundary
  • Amagi Brilliant Park
  • Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions the Movie: Take on Me
  • Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!
  • Liz and the Blue Bird
  • Nichijou: My Ordinary Life
  • K-ON!
  • Free!
  • The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya
  • Tsurune
  • Air
  • Kanon (2006)
  • Kiddy Grade

Filmography

2018
Tsurune (TV Series)
2018
Violet Evergarden (TV Series)
2016
2015
Sound! Euphonium (TV Series)
2014
2013
2013
Free! (TV Series)
2013
Tamako Market (TV Series)
2012
2012
Hyouka (TV Series)
2010
2009
K-ON! (TV Series)
2009
2009
2007
Clannad (TV Series)
2006
Kanon (2006) (TV Series)
2006
2005
Air (TV Series)
2002
Kiddy Grade (TV Series)
2002
Nurse Witch Komugi (TV Series)
2002
Tokyo Underground (TV Series)
2001
The SoulTaker (TV Series)
2001
Haré+Guu (TV Series)
2001
2000
InuYasha (TV Series)
2000
Gate Keepers (TV Series)

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