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Hiroyuki Imaishi

Hiroyuki Imaishi

Director · Born October 4, 1971

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Biography

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. Source: Wikipedia

Directed 24

2010s

  1. 2019

    Promare / Side: Galo

    Director

  2. Promare

    Director

    77
  3. 2018

    DARLING in the FRANXX

    Action Director

    77
  4. 2016

    Space Patrol Luluco

    Series Director, Director

    69
  5. 2015

    Sex & Violence with Machspeed

    Director

  6. 2014

    Japan Animator Expo

    Director

  7. 2013

    Kill la Kill

    Series Director, Director

    79
  8. 2012

    Inferno Cop

    Series Director

  9. 2010

    Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt

    Director

    74

1990s

  1. 1999

    Medabots

    Director

    72

No release date

  1. Untitled Hiroyuki Imaishi/Kazuki Nakashima Project

    Director

Visual effects 48

2000s

  1. 2009

    Redline

    Key Animation

    74

  2. Gurren Lagann the Movie: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars

    Animation Director, Key Animation

    80
  3. 2008

    Gurren Lagann The Movie: Childhood's End

    Key Animation, Animation Director

    76

  4. Rosario + Vampire

    Key Animation

    71
  5. 2007

    Gurren Lagann

    Key Animation, Animation Director

    83
  6. 2006

    Gunbuster vs Diebuster: Aim for the Top! The GATTAI!! Movie

    Key Animation

  7. 2005

    Gaiking: Legend of Daiku-Maryu

    Key Animation

  8. Oval x Over

    Animation Director

  9. One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island

    Key Animation

    72
  10. 2004

    Re: Cutie Honey

    Key Animation

    71

  11. This Ugly Yet Beautiful World

    Key Animation

    61

  12. Dead Leaves

    Character Designer, Animation Director, Key Animation

    71
  13. 2003

    Fullmetal Alchemist

    Key Animation

    84

  14. Lupin the Third: Operation: Return the Treasure

    Key Animation

    69
  15. 2002

    Animation Store Manager

    Character Designer

  16. Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi

    Animation Director

    71

  17. Trava: Fist Planet

    Key Animation

  18. 2001

    Mahoromatic

    Key Animation

    67

  19. Lupin the Third: Alcatraz Connection

    Key Animation

  20. 2000

    FLCL

    Animation Director, Key Animation

    80

Art department 24

Wrote 6

2000s

  1. 2002

    Animation Store Manager

    Screenplay

Acted in 1

2010s

  1. 2014

    The Making of Kill la Kill: 500 Days of Total Coverage

    (Self)

Appearances1

2020s

  1. 2021

    THE ANIME STUDIO

    Self - Director · 1 episode