
Person
Hiroyuki Imaishi
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Oct 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. 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
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The Making of Kill la Kill: 500 Days of Total Coverage

THE ANIME STUDIO

Gurren Lagann the Movie: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars

Promare

Promare / Side: Galo

Promare / Side: Lio

Dead Leaves

Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time

Shoka

Animation Store Manager

One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island

Oval x Over

Redline

Gunbuster vs Diebuster: Aim for the Top! The GATTAI!! Movie

Lupin the Third: Alcatraz Connection

Lupin the Third: Island of Assassins

Lupin the Third: Tokyo Crisis