Hiroyuki Imaishi
Known for: Directing
Born: October 4, 1971
Place of birth: —
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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Filmography
25 movies · 34 TV shows, newest first
8.6
New PANTY & STOCKING with GARTERBELT
2025
8.5
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
2022
NR
THE ANIME STUDIO
2021
7.1
Star Wars: Visions
2021
8.2
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
2021
8.2
BNA
2020
7.4
Promare / Side: Galo
2019
6.9
Promare / Side: Lio
2019
7.0
Promare
2019
8.5
DARLING in the FRANXX
2018
7.9
Little Witch Academia
2017
6.6
Space Patrol Luluco
2016
7.2
Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade
2015
6.7
Ninja Slayer From Animation
2015
5.7
Sex & Violence with Machspeed
2015
7.1
Japan Animator Expo
2014
NR
The Making of Kill la Kill: 500 Days of Total Coverage
2014
8.2
Kill la Kill
2013
5.8
Inferno Cop
2012
7.2
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
2012
7.1
Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine
2012
6.8
THE iDOLM@STER
2011
7.2
Star Driver
2010
7.7
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
2010
7.0
Shoka
2010
7.5
Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva
2009
7.5
Redline
2009
7.9
Gurren Lagann the Movie: The Lights in the Sky Are Stars
2009
7.6
Gurren Lagann The Movie: Childhood's End
2008
7.8
Rosario + Vampire
2008
8.2
Gurren Lagann
2007
6.3
Gunbuster vs Diebuster: Aim for the Top! The GATTAI!! Movie
2006
5.5
Gaiking: Legend of Daiku-Maryu
2005
4.0
Oval x Over
2005
7.2
One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island
2005
6.7
Re: Cutie Honey
2004
6.1
This Ugly Yet Beautiful World
2004
7.0
Dead Leaves
2004
8.2
Fullmetal Alchemist
2003
6.8
Lupin the Third: Operation: Return the Treasure
2003
4.7
Animation Store Manager
2002
6.8
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi
2002
6.8
Trava: Fist Planet
2002
6.8
Mahoromatic
2001
6.1
Lupin the Third: Alcatraz Connection
2001
6.8
PaRappa the Rapper
2001
7.9
FLCL
2000
8.3
Medabots
1999
9.0
Microman
1999
5.0
Popolocrois Monogatari
1998
7.9
His and Her Circumstances
1998
6.5
Lupin the Third: Tokyo Crisis
1998
6.5
Virus Buster Serge
1997
6.5
Lupin the Third: Island of Assassins
1997
8.3
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
1997
7.4
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth
1997
8.6
Neon Genesis Evangelion
1995
7.7
Gunbuster
1988
NR
Untitled Hiroyuki Imaishi/Kazuki Nakashima Project
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