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Masaaki Yuasa

Masaaki Yuasa is a Japanese animator and director celebrated for his experimental and avant-garde style. His work, such...

Avant Garde Japanese Experimental Director

9.1 Excellent

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Osamu Dezaki

Japanese anime director (1943–2011) who pioneered the freeze-frame 'postcard memory' visual technique and directed landm...

Anime Television Classic Japanese

9.0 Excellent

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Toshiyuki Inoue

Japanese key animator regarded as one of the industry's most influential talents, known for nuanced character expression...

Anime Character Japanese Key Animator

8.8 Great

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Mitsuo Iso

Japanese animator celebrated for his highly detailed approach to character movement, known for landmark sequences in Neo...

Anime Japanese Evangelion Key Animator

8.7 Great

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Norio Matsumoto

Japanese key animator celebrated for fluid, expressive character animation in action sequences, particularly noted for h...

Action Anime Japanese Key Animator

8.6 Great

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Akiyuki Shinbo

Japanese anime director at Shaft studio known for a highly stylized visual approach, serving as chief director of Puella...

Anime Television Contemporary Japanese

8.5 Great

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Yoh Yoshinari

Japanese animator known for expressive and energetic key animation who later directed the acclaimed anime series Little...

Anime Japanese Trigger Key Animator

8.4 Great

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Shinya Ohira

Japanese animator known for a highly individualistic and experimental style, with notable contributions to anime antholo...

Anime Japanese Experimental Key Animator

8.4 Great

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Yasuhiro Takemoto

Japanese anime director at Kyoto Animation who directed 'Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu' (2003) and 'Hyouka' (2012), and who...

Anime Television Japanese Kyoani

8.4 Great

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Tatsuya Ishihara

Japanese anime director at Kyoto Animation known for directing 'The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya' (2006) and 'Clannad'...

Anime Television Japanese Kyoani

8.3 Great

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Shingo Yamashita

Japanese animator celebrated for dynamic and inventive key animation, widely recognized for visually distinctive sequenc...

Anime Contemporary Japanese Key Animator

8.2 Great

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Takeshi Honda

Japanese animator and animation director who contributed key animation to landmark productions including Neon Genesis Ev...

Anime Japanese Evangelion Key Animator

8.2 Great

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Keiichi Hara

Japanese anime director known for multiple 'Crayon Shin-chan' theatrical films and for directing the independently accla...

Anime Contemporary Japanese Theatrical

8.2 Great

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Rie Matsumoto

Japanese anime director known for 'Kyousougiga' (2013) and 'Blood Blockade Battlefront' (2015), both widely praised for...

Anime Contemporary Japanese Female

8.1 Great

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Yoshiji Kigami

Japanese animator at Kyoto Animation regarded as one of the studio's most technically accomplished key animators and a c...

Anime Japanese Kyoani Key Animator

8.1 Great

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Hiroshi Hamasaki

Japanese anime director known for directing the dystopian cyberpunk series 'Texhnolyze' (2003) and the time-travel thril...

Anime Television Contemporary Japanese

8.1 Great

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Seiji Mizushima

Japanese anime director known for directing the original 'Fullmetal Alchemist' TV series (2003) at Bones studio and 'Mob...

Anime Television Contemporary Japanese

8.1 Great

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Mahiro Maeda

Japanese animator and director who contributed key animation to Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) and directed a segment of...

Anime Japanese Theatrical Director

8.0 Great

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Tensai Okamura

Japanese anime director known for directing 'Wolf's Rain' (2003) and 'Darker than Black' (2007) at Bones studio, both ge...

Anime Television Contemporary Japanese

7.9 Good

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Kazuto Nakazawa

Japanese animator and director noted for creating the animated sequence in Quentin Tarantino's 'Kill Bill: Volume 1' (20...

Anime Japanese Director Key Animator

7.7 Good