swap_horiz Konosuke Uda Alternatives

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Kunihiko Ikuhara

Kunihiko Ikuhara is a Japanese animator recognized for his distinctive directorial style and complex narratives. He freq...

Television Japanese Surrealist Magical Girl

9.0 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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Yoshiyuki Tomino

Yoshiyuki Tomino is a Japanese animator primarily known for his creation of Mobile Suit Gundam. His 1979 series pioneere...

Mecha Television Japanese Gundam

8.8 Great

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Sayo Yamamoto

Sayo Yamamoto is a Japanese animator primarily noted for her work directing television series. She gained significant re...

Television Japanese Sports Director

8.7 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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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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Koji Morimoto

Japanese animator and co-founder of Studio 4°C, known for directing segments in Memories (1995) and The Animatrix (2003)...

Anime Japanese Experimental Director

8.3 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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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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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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Masayuki

Japanese anime director known by a single name who directed 'Baccano!' (2007) at Brain's Base, a critically praised non-...

Anime Television Japanese Evangelion

7.9 Good

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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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Takuya Igarashi

Japanese anime director known for directing 'Sailor Moon SuperS' (1995) and the romantic comedy series 'Ouran High Schoo...

Anime Television Contemporary Japanese

7.8 Good

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Junji Nishimura

Japanese anime director known for directing seasons of 'Ranma ½' in the early 1990s and later 'True Tears' (2008), notab...

Anime Television Classic Japanese

7.2 Good

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Takayuki Hamana

Japanese anime television director whose credits include the historical otome adaptation 'Hakuouki: Demon of the Fleetin...

Anime Television Contemporary Japanese

6.7 Fair

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Hiroshi Ikehata

Japanese anime director and industry professional with credits on multiple animated television productions spanning diff...

Anime Television Contemporary Japanese

6.6 Fair

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Katsuyoshi Yatabe

Japanese anime director whose career includes television series direction across multiple genres and productions within...

Anime Television Contemporary Japanese

6.6 Fair

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Hiroshi Shimizu

Animator whose specific contributions and studio affiliations are not prominently documented in major English-language a...

Anime Television Contemporary Japanese

5.7 Mediocre