Directing
Community Rating
7.0
TMDB estimate
Born
October 4, 1971 (age 54)
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
New PANTY & STOCKING with GARTERBELT
as Series Director, Series Composition, Storyboard, Storyboard Artist
2025
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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
as Opening/Ending Animation, Storyboard Artist, Series Director
2022
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THE ANIME STUDIO
as Self - Director
2021
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Star Wars: Visions
as Storyboard Artist, Director
2021
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Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
as Key Animation
2021
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BNA
as Action Director, Key Animation, Storyboard Artist
2020
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Promare / Side: Galo
as Art Direction, Director, Key Animation
2019
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Promare / Side: Lio
as Art Direction
2019
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Promare
as Key Animation, Art Designer, Storyboard Artist, Director, Art Direction
2019
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DARLING in the FRANXX
as Action Director
2018
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Little Witch Academia
as Key Animation, Storyboard Artist
2017
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Space Patrol Luluco
as Series Composition, Original Concept, Series Director, Writer, Key Animation, Storyboard Artist, Director, Original Story
2016
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Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade
as Key Animation
2015
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Ninja Slayer From Animation
as Character Designer
2015
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Sex & Violence with Machspeed
as Director, Key Animation
2015
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Japan Animator Expo
as Director, Storyboard Artist, Key Animation
2014
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The Making of Kill la Kill: 500 Days of Total Coverage
as (Self)
2014
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Kill la Kill
as Series Director, Key Animation, Storyboard Artist, Director
2013
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Inferno Cop
as Series Director
2012
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Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
as Key Animation
2012
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