Hiroyuki Imaishi

About

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...

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Cyberpunk: EdgerunnersSeries • 2022Neon Genesis EvangelionAnime • 1995Star Wars: VisionsSeries • 2021Gurren LagannAnime • 2007Kill la KillAnime • 2013Fullmetal AlchemistAnime • 2003FLCLAnime • 2000DARLING in the FRANXXAnime • 2018Rosario + VampireAnime • 2008Panty & Stocking with GarterbeltAnime • 2010His and Her CircumstancesAnime • 1998Little Witch AcademiaAnime • 2017MedabotsAnime • 1999Popolocrois MonogatariAnime • 1998BNAAnime • 2020THE iDOLM@STERAnime • 2011Japan Animator ExpoAnime • 2014New PANTY & STOCKING with GARTERBELTAnime • 2025Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of EvangelionMovie • 1997GunbusterAnime • 1988Gaiking: Legend of Daiku-MaryuAnime • 2005Star DriverAnime • 2010Magical Shopping Arcade AbenobashiAnime • 2002Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko MineAnime • 2012