Akiyuki Shimbo
Akiyuki Shimbō ( Japanese 新房 昭 之 , Shimbō Akiyuki ; born September 27, 1961 in Fukushima Prefecture ) is a Japanese anime director.
Life
After Akiyuki Shimbō graduated from Tōkyō Design Gakuin , he became a draftsman at the animation studio One Pattern, and was close friends with the mangaka Kazuki Takahashi at that time . One of his earliest works, in which he was involved as a draftsman, was Urusei Yatsura from 1981. He later switched to Studio Pierrot , where he became one of the technical directors ( enshutsu ) for the first time at Karakuri Kengōden Musashi Lord in 1990, i.e. was responsible for that the production staff implemented the director's specifications ( kantoku ). He took the same position in other Pierrot productions, where he attracted attention in the series Yū Yū Hakusho with episode 58 and especially episode 74, so that in 1994 he was commissioned for the first time for Metal Figher Miku with the direction ( kantoku ).
In 1996 he became the director of OVA Soreyuke! Uchū Senkan Yamamoto Yōko , who drew an OVA series in 1997 and a television series in 1999 and which was his second television directorial work - however, Shimbō turned primarily to OVA productions. In 2003 he was responsible for the computer game adaptation Triangle Heart - Sweet Songs Forever , which turned out to be a stroke of luck. In 2004, based on this OVA, the spin-off television series Mahō Shōjo Lyrical Nanoha was produced, in which he also acted as a director and which was an enormous success. In the same year he also published the OVA Das Bildnis der Petit Cossette and the television series Tsukuyomi - Moon Phase , both of which were also successful. The latter work was animated by the Shaft studio , for which he has mainly worked since 2005 and sometimes directs two series simultaneously in one quarter.
His series Bakemonogatari , Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Nisemonogatari were among the best-selling anime series of 2010, 2011 and 2012, respectively.
His visual style is often shaped by surreal elements, typographic art and cuts for text panels and photographs.
Work as a director
Web links
- Entry about Akiyuki Shimbō in the Anime News Network (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ animator interview 山下 将 仁 （１） . In: WEB ア ニ メ ス タ イ ル . January 10, 2004, Retrieved December 11, 2011 (Japanese).
- ^ Scott Frazier: Titles and positions in the japanese animation industry. In: Beyond TV Safety. Archived from the original on May 23, 1998 ; accessed on November 12, 2019 .
- ↑ ア ニ メ 様 の 七 転 八 倒 小 黒 祐 一郎 第 ６ 回 作家 ・ 新房 昭 之 の 本領 発 揮 . In: WEB ア ニ メ ス タ イ ル . February 28, 2005, Retrieved December 11, 2011 (Japanese).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shimbo, Akiyuki |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Akiyuki, Shimbō (full name); 新房 昭 之 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | japanese anime director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fukushima prefecture |