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Osamu Tezuka
Japanese cartoonist and animator (1928–1989)
Makoto Shinkai
Japanese anime director
Satoshi Kon
Japanese anime director and manga artist (1963–2010)
Hideaki Anno
Japanese animator, film director, businessman
Leiji Matsumoto
Japanese manga artist (1938–2023)
Katsuhiro Otomo
Japanese manga artist, screenwriter and film director (born 1954)
Eiji Tsuburaya
Japanese film director (1901-1970)
Kon Ichikawa
Japanese film director and screenwriter (1915–2008)
Mamoru Hosoda
Japanese anime director
Masamune Shirow
Japanese manga artist
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Japanese animator and cartoonist (1962-)
Osamu Dezaki
Japanese film director and screenwriter (1943–2011)
Hiroyuki Imaishi
Japanese key animator and anime director
Shin'ichirō Watanabe
Japanese anime director
Masaaki Yuasa
Japanese anime artist
Kōuchi Jun'ichi
Japanese animator (1886-1970)
Yasuhiro Takemoto
Japanese director of anime series and original video animations (1972-2019)
Rintaro
is the pseudonym of , a well-known director of anime. He works frequently with the animation studio Madhouse (which he co-founded), though he is a freelance director not employed directly by any one studio. He began working in the animation industry—at age 17—as an in-between animator on the 1958 film Hakujaden. His works have won and been nominated for multiple awards, including a nomination for Best Film (Metropolis) at the 2001 Festival de Cine de Sitges.
Yoshiyuki Tomino
Japanese film director
Ōten Shimokawa
Japanese animator (1892–1973)
Tetsurō Araki
Japanese anime director
Yoshiaki Kawajiri
Japanese animator
Keiichi Hara
Japanese anime director
Akiyuki Shinbo
Japanese animation director
Mahiro Maeda
Japanese animator, character designer, animation director (1963-)
Kunihiko Yuyama
Japanese anime director
Shinji Higuchi
Japanese special skill director, animation director, animator, binding artist
Toi8
toi8 (born October 8, 1976) is a Japanese artist. He is most known for working on various anime such as .hack//The Movie, Maoyuu Maou Yuusha, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, and several video games where he has served as character designer, including Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE and I am Setsuna. He is also the illustrator of the My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer and Who Killed the Hero? light novel series.
Akira Yasuda
Japanese artist and game designer
Yoshifumi Kondō
Japanese anime director (1950-1998)
Hiroyuki Morita
Japanese animator
Kazuya Tsurumaki
Japanese anime director, animator
Kia Asamiya
Japanese manga artist
Yoshiaki Nishimura
Japanese film producer (1977-)
Makoto Tezuka
Japanese film and anime director
Yōichi Kotabe
Japanese illustrator (born 1936)
Futoshi Nishiya
Japanese animator and character designer
Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Japanese anime director
Kunio Katō
Japanese animator
Izumi Tōdō
collective pseudonym for the staff at Toei Animation
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Japanese mangaka and animator
Kōji Yamamura
Japanese independent animator
Sunao Katabuchi
Japanese screenwriter
Yoshiji Kigami
animator, animation director
Tensai Okamura
Japanese anime director
Shingo Araki
Japanese animation artist and character designer (1939–2011)
Tatsuo Yoshida
Japanese mangaka and animator (1932–1977)
Yasuhiro Yoshiura
Japanese writer and director
Satoshi Urushihara
Japanese artist
Kōji Morimoto
Japanese anime director
Narumi Kakinouchi
Japanese manga artist
Kazuki Akane
Japanese anime director
Masao Maruyama
Japanese animator
Noboru Ishiguro
Japanese anime director (1938–2012)
Masayuki Kojima
Japanese anime director
Kenzō Masaoka
animator from Japan
Kihachirō Kawamoto
Japanese anime director (1925–2010)
Atsuko Ishizuka
Japanese animator
Mitsuo Iso
Japanese animator, screenwriter, director, animation director (1966-)
Kitarō Kōsaka
Japanese anime director