Known For
Directing
Born
Oct 04, 1971
Credits
59 titles
Hiroyuki Imaishi
Biography
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
Known For
Filmography
New PANTY & STOCKING with GARTERBELT
Series Director
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
Opening/Ending Animation
THE ANIME STUDIO
Self - Director
Star Wars: Visions
Storyboard Artist
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
Key Animation
BNA
Action Director
Promare
Key Animation
Promare / Side: Galo
Art Direction
Promare / Side: Lio
Art Direction
DARLING in the FRANXX
Action Director
Little Witch Academia
Key Animation
Space Patrol Luluco
Series Composition
Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade
Key Animation
Ninja Slayer From Animation
Character Designer
Sex & Violence with Machspeed
Director
Japan Animator Expo
Director
The Making of Kill la Kill: 500 Days of Total Coverage
(Self)
Kill la Kill
Series Director
Inferno Cop
Series Director
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
Key Animation
Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine
Key Animation
THE iDOLM@STER
Storyboard Artist
Star Driver
Key Animation
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
Director
Shoka
Key Animation
Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva
Storyboard Artist
Redline
Key Animation
Gurren Lagann the Movie: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars
Director
Gurren Lagann The Movie: Childhood's End
Key Animation
Rosario + Vampire
Key Animation
Gurren Lagann
Director
Gunbuster vs Diebuster: Aim for the Top! The GATTAI!! Movie
Key Animation
Gaiking: Legend of Daiku-Maryu
Key Animation
Oval x Over
Storyboard Artist
One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island
Key Animation
Re: Cutie Honey
Director
This Ugly Yet Beautiful World
Key Animation
Dead Leaves
Director
Fullmetal Alchemist
Key Animation
Lupin the Third: Operation: Return the Treasure
Key Animation
Animation Store Manager
Director
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi
Storyboard Artist
Trava: Fist Planet
Key Animation
Mahoromatic
Key Animation
Lupin the Third: Alcatraz Connection
Key Animation
PaRappa the Rapper
Director
FLCL
Art Designer
Medabots
Key Animation
Microman
Key Animation
Popolocrois Monogatari
Key Animation