Directing · geboren 1971-10-04 · Tokyo, Japan

今石洋之

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

Bekannt aus

• Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) – Key Animation
• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022) – Opening/Ending Animation
• Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997) – Key Animation
• Darling in the Franxx (2018) – Action Director
• Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) – Key Animation
• Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon A Time (2021) – Key Animation
• Evangelion: 3.0 - You can (not) redo (2012) – Key Animation
• Gurren Lagann (2007) – Director
• Redline (2009) – Key Animation
• Kill la Kill (2013) – Series Director
• Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth (1997) – Key Animation
• Star Wars: Visionen (2021) – Storyboard Artist
• BNA (2020) – Action Director
• FLCL (2000) – Art Designer
• Promare (2019) – Key Animation
• Rosario + Vampire (2008) – Key Animation
• One Piece: Baron Omatsuri und die geheimnisvolle Insel (2005) – Key Animation
• Medabots (1999) – Key Animation
• Little Witch Academia (2017) – Storyboard Artist
• Kare Kano: Mein Geheimnis, dein Geheimnis (1998) – Writer
• Professor Layton und die ewige Diva (2009) – Storyboard Artist
• Dead Leaves (2004) – Director
• Gurren Lagann - The Lights in the Sky are Stars (2009) – Director
• Gurren Lagann - Childhood's End (2008) – Key Animation
• Little Witch Academia - Enchanted Parade (2015) – Key Animation
• Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt (2010) – Director
• ルパン三世 お宝返却大作戦！！ (2003) – Key Animation
• Gunbuster (1988) – Key Animation
• Lupin III: Walther P38 (1997) – Key Animation
• Space Patrol Luluco (2016) – Series Composition
• Abenobashi: Magical Shopping Arcade (2002) – Director
• Lupin III.: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine (2012) – Key Animation
• Lupin III.: Crisis in Tokyo (1998) – Key Animation
• ルパン三世 アルカトラズコネクション (2001) – Key Animation
• New PANTY & STOCKING with GARTERBELT (2025) – Series Composition
• Inferno Cop (2012) – Series Director
• iDOLM@STER (2011) – Storyboard Artist
• Promare: Lio (2019) – Art Direction
• Promare: Galo (2019) – Art Direction
• Re-Cutie Honey (2004) – Director