Hiroyuki Imaishi
Directing
Born October 4, 1971
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.
Filmography
Untitled Hiroyuki Imaishi/Kazuki Nakashima Project
New PANTY & STOCKING with GARTERBELT
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
THE ANIME STUDIO
Self - Director
Star Wars: Visions
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
BNA
Promare
Promare / Side: Galo
Promare / Side: Lio
DARLING in the FRANXX
Little Witch Academia
Space Patrol Luluco
Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade
Ninja Slayer From Animation
Sex & Violence with Machspeed
Japan Animator Expo
The Making of Kill la Kill: 500 Days of Total Coverage
(Self)
Kill la Kill
Inferno Cop
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine
THE iDOLM@STER
Star Driver
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
Shoka
Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva
Redline
Gurren Lagann the Movie: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars
Gurren Lagann The Movie: Childhood's End
Rosario + Vampire
Gurren Lagann
Gunbuster vs Diebuster: Aim for the Top! The GATTAI!! Movie
Gaiking: Legend of Daiku-Maryu
Oval x Over
One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island
Re: Cutie Honey
This Ugly Yet Beautiful World
Dead Leaves
Fullmetal Alchemist
Lupin the Third: Operation: Return the Treasure
Animation Store Manager
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi
Trava: Fist Planet
Mahoromatic
Lupin the Third: Alcatraz Connection
PaRappa the Rapper
FLCL
Medabots
Microman
Popolocrois Monogatari
His and Her Circumstances
Lupin the Third: Tokyo Crisis
Virus Buster Serge
Lupin the Third: Island of Assassins
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Gunbuster