Hiroyuki Imaishi
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.
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Movies (25)
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
2021 · Key Animation
Promare / Side: Galo
2019 · Art Direction, Director, Key Animation
Promare / Side: Lio
2019 · Art Direction
Promare
2019 · Key Animation, Art Designer, Storyboard Artist, Director, Art Direction
Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade
2015 · Key Animation
Sex & Violence with Machspeed
2015 · Director, Key Animation
The Making of Kill la Kill: 500 Days of Total Coverage
2014 · (Self)
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
2012 · Key Animation
Shoka
2010 · Key Animation
Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva
2009 · Storyboard Artist
Redline
2009 · Key Animation
Gurren Lagann the Movie: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars
2009 · Director, Storyboard Artist, Animation Director, Key Animation
Gurren Lagann The Movie: Childhood's End
2008 · Storyboard Artist, Animation Director, Key Animation, Director
Gunbuster vs Diebuster: Aim for the Top! The GATTAI!! Movie
2006 · Key Animation
Oval x Over
2005 · Storyboard Artist, Director, Animation Director
One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island
2005 · Key Animation
Dead Leaves
2004 · Director, Storyboard Artist, Character Designer, Animation Director, Key Animation
Lupin the Third: Operation: Return the Treasure
2003 · Key Animation
Animation Store Manager
2002 · Director, Character Designer, Art Direction, Screenplay
Lupin the Third: Alcatraz Connection
2001 · Key Animation
Lupin the Third: Tokyo Crisis
1998 · Key Animation
Lupin the Third: Island of Assassins
1997 · Key Animation
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
1997 · Key Animation
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth
1997 · Key Animation
Untitled Hiroyuki Imaishi/Kazuki Nakashima Project
· Director
TV shows (34)
New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
2025 · Series Director, Series Composition, Storyboard, Storyboard Artist, Director, Writer
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
2022 · Opening/Ending Animation, Storyboard Artist, Series Director, Other
THE ANIME STUDIO
2021 · Self - Director
Star Wars: Visions
2021 · Storyboard Artist, Director
BNA
2020 · Action Director, Key Animation, Storyboard Artist
DARLING in the FRANXX
2018 · Action Director
Little Witch Academia
2017 · Key Animation, Storyboard Artist
Space Patrol Luluco
2016 · Series Composition, Original Concept, Series Director, Writer, Key Animation, Storyboard Artist, Director, Original Story
Ninja Slayer From Animation
2015 · Character Designer
Japan Animator Expo
2014 · Director, Storyboard Artist, Key Animation
Kill la Kill
2013 · Series Director, Key Animation, Storyboard Artist, Director
Inferno Cop
2012 · Series Director
Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine
2012 · Key Animation
THE iDOLM@STER
2011 · Storyboard Artist
Star Driver
2010 · Key Animation
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
2010 · Director, Storyboard Artist, Writer, Scenario Writer, Key Animation, Original Story
Rosario + Vampire
2008 · Key Animation
Gurren Lagann
2007 · Director, Series Director, Key Animation, Storyboard Artist, Animation Director
Gaiking: Legend of Daiku-Maryu
2005 · Key Animation
Re: Cutie Honey
2004 · Director, Opening Title Sequence, Key Animation
This Ugly Yet Beautiful World
2004 · Key Animation
Fullmetal Alchemist
2003 · Key Animation
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi
2002 · Storyboard Artist, Director, Animation Director
Trava: Fist Planet
2002 · Key Animation
Mahoromatic
2001 · Key Animation
PaRappa the Rapper
2001 · Director
FLCL
2000 · Art Designer, Storyboard Artist, Animation Director, Key Animation
Medabots
1999 · Key Animation, Storyboard, Director, Animation Director
Microman
1999 · Key Animation
Popolocrois Monogatari
1998 · Key Animation
His and Her Circumstances
1998 · Writer, Storyboard Artist, Key Animation, Animation Director
Virus Buster Serge
1997 · Key Animation
Neon Genesis Evangelion
1995 · Key Animation
Gunbuster
1988 · Key Animation