swap_horiz Masayuki Alternatives

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Hideaki Anno

Hideaki Anno is a Japanese animator and director renowned for his innovative approach to animation and storytelling. He...

Traditional Japanese Science Fiction Evangelion

9.2 Excellent

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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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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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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

10

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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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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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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Konosuke Uda

Japanese anime director who served as a primary series director on the long-running 'One Piece' TV anime from 1999, work...

Anime Television Japanese One Piece

7.9 Good

15

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

16

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