Takeo Takahashi

Takeo Takahashi
Takeo Takahashi
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation(s)	Animator, storyboard artist, director
Years active	1991–present
Employer(s)	Studio Kuma (former); Imagin (former); Passione (Managing director)

Takeo Takahashi (高橋丈夫, Takahashi Takeo) is a Japanese animator, animation director, and storyboard artist.^[1]

Filmography

Director

Television series

Year	Title	Co-director(s)^[a]	Studio	Eps.	Storyboard art.
2004	Hit o Nerae!	N/A	Imagin	12	Yes (#1)
2004	Love Love?	N/A	Imagin	13	No
2004	The Cosmopolitan Prayers	N/A	Imagin	12	Yes (#1, 8, 9, 11)
2008	Spice and Wolf	N/A	Imagin	12	Yes (#1-2, 6, 10, opening, ending)
2009	Spice and Wolf II	N/A	Brain's Base Marvy Jack	12	Yes (#1-3, 6, 11-12, opening, ending)
2010	Yosuga no Sora	N/A	Feel	12	Yes (#1, 3-4, 10, 12, opening, ending)
2012	So, I Can't Play H!	N/A	Feel	12	Yes (#1, 12, ending)
2013	Maoyu	N/A	Arms	12	Yes (#1, 3, 5, 12, opening, ending)
2015	Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers	N/A	Passione	12	Yes (#1, 5)
2017	Hinako Note	Toru Kitahata	Passione	12	Yes (#1)
2018	Citrus	Naoyuki Tatsuwa	Passione	12	Yes (#1, 5, 11-12, opening, ending)
2019	Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan	N/A	Passione	1 (ep 9)	No
2019	Wasteful Days of High School Girls	Hijiri Sanpei	Passione	12	Yes (#1, ending, "sugoi" sequence)
2024	Ishura	Yuki Ogawa	Passione	12	Yes (#1)
2024	Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf	Hijiri Sanpei	Passione	25	Yes (#1, 5, 8, 10, 18, 20, 22, 25, opening, epilogue (#13))

OVAs

Year	Title	Co-director(s)^[a]	Studio	Eps.	Storyboard art.
2009	Spice and Wolf: Wolf and Amber Melancholy	N/A	Brain's Base Marvy Jack	1	Yes
2009	Aki Sora	N/A	Hoods Entertainment	1	Yes
2010	Aki Sora: Yume No Naka	N/A	Hoods Entertainment	2	Yes (#1-2, ending)
2012	Ai Mai! Moe Can Change!	N/A	Frontier Works	1	No
2019	The Island of Giant Insects	Naoyuki Tatsuwa	Passione	1	No

Films

Year	Title	Co-director(s)^[a]	Studio	Dur.	Storyboard art.
2020	The Island of Giant Insects	Naoyuki Tatsuwa	Passione	76 minutes	No

Other

Television series

Year	Title	Director(s)^[a]	Studio	Role(s)
1991	Blue Seed	Kamiya Jun	Ashi Productions Production I.G	In-Between Animator ( #4, 10)
1991	Jankenman	Endou Tetsuya	Ashi Productions	In-Between Animator (#20, 27, 32, 38, 45, 49)
1995	Ping Pong Club	Hata Masami	Grouper Productions	Key Animator (#21, 26)
1995	Tenchi Universe	Negishi Hiroshi	AIC	In-Between Animator (#12)
1997	Virus Buster Serge	Oobari Masami	Plum	Key Animator (#1)
1998	Gasaraki	Ryousuke Takahashi	Sunrise	Key Animator (#21)
2000	Gate Keepers	Satou Jun'ichi	Gonzo	Animation Director (#8, 18) Key Animator (#5, 14)
2000	Love Hina	Iwasaki Yoshiaki	Xebec	Key Animator (#2)
2000	Hand Maid May	Kimura Shin'ichirou	TNK	Key Animator (#4)
2001	Sister Princess	Asami Matsuo Oohata Kiyotaka Ikushi Itada	Zexcs	Storyboard (#10)
2001	Comic Party	Norihiko Sudo	OLM, Inc.	Key Animator (#12)
2002	Rizelmine	Matsumura Yasuhiro	Imagin Madhouse	Assistant Director Storyboard (#18, 21)
2002	Galaxy Angel A	Shigehito Takayanagi	Madhouse	Assistant Director (#15) Storyboard (#23)
2002	Pita Ten	Kawase Toshifumi Satou Yuuzou	Madhouse	Assistant Director (#12)
2004	Rozen Maiden	Matsuo Kou	Nomad	Assistant Director (#2, 6, 11) Storyboard (#2) Key Animator (#11)
2005	Strawberry 100%	Sekita Osamu	Madhouse	Storyboard (#4)
2005	Oku-sama wa Joshi Kōsei	Shishido Jun	Madhouse	Storyboard (#1-2, 5, 7-10, 12, 15, 17, 22-23, 25-26)
2006	The Story of Saiunkoku	Shishido Jun	Madhouse	Storyboard (#4, 13, 25, 27, 35-36)
2006	Strawberry Panic	Sakoi Masayuki	Madhouse	Storyboard (#8, 15-16, 25)
2006	Yume Tsukai	Yamazaki Kazuo	Madhouse	Storyboard (#4)
2007	Princess Resurrection	Sakoi Masayuki	Madhouse	Subtitle Design Storyboard (#4, 8, 13, ending) Assistant Director (ending)
2007	The Story of Saiunkoku: Second Season	Shishido Jun	Madhouse	Storyboard (#1)
2010	The Qwaser of Stigmata	Kaneko Hiraku	Hoods Entertainment	Storyboard (#8, 13, ending)
2011	The Qwaser of Stigmata II	Kaneko Hiraku	Hoods Entertainment	Storyboard (#10, 12, ending)
2011	Mayo Chiki!	Kawaguchi Keiichirou	Feel	Storyboard (#2)
2011	Manyu Hiken-cho	Kaneko Hiraku	Hoods Entertainment	Storyboard (#9, 11)
2012	Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father!	Kawasaki Itsurou	Feel	Storyboard (#4, 8)
2013	Outbreak Company	Oikawa Kei	Feel	Storyboard (#6)
2013	Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures	Motonori Sakakibara	41 Entertainment Arad Productions Bandai Namco Entertainment	Production Manager
2014	Hamatora	Seiji Kishi Hiroshi Kimura	NAZ	Storyboard (#2, 4)
2014	Rail Wars	Sueda Yoshifumi	Passione	Storyboard (#3, 8, 10)
2019	Z/X: Code Reunion	Sueda Yoshifumi	Passione	Storyboard (#5, 12)
2020	Sakura Wars: The Animation	Ono Manabu	Sanzigen	Storyboard (#9)
2020	Higurashi: When They Cry - GOU	Kawaguchi Keiichiro	Passione	Storyboard (#9, 11, 13, 22, ending)
2021	Higurashi: When They Cry - SOTSU	Kawaguchi Keiichirou	Passione	Storyboard (#3, 6, 10, 14, ending)
2021	Mieruko-chan	Yuki Ogawa	Passione	Storyboard (#10)
2022	Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World	Tatsuwa Naoyuki	Passione	Storyboard (#4,11)
2022	Love Flops	Nobuyoshi Nagayama	Passione	Storyboard (#4)

OVAs/ONAs

Year	Title	Director(s)^[a]	Studio	Role(s)
1992	All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku	Moriyama Yuuji	Animate Film	In-Between Animator
1992	Genesis Survivor Gaiarth	Hiroyuki Kitazume Shinji Aramaki Masayuki Oozeki Hideaki Oba	Artmic AIC	In-Between Animator
1999	Gravitation	Shinichi Sakura Awai Shigeki	Animate Film	Key Animator
2002	Virgin Fleet	Hosoda Masahiro	AIC	Key Animator
2009	Owly	Moto Sakakibara	Sprite Animation Studios	3D Animator
2010	The Qwaser of Stigmata: Portrait of an Empress	Kaneko Hiraku	Hoods Entertainment	Storyboard (ending animation)
2013	So, I Can't Play H!: Too Much Skin! The Swimsuit Contest	Sueda Yoshifumi	Feel	Supervision Storyboard
2021	Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness	Eiichirō Hasumi	TMS Entertainment Quebic	Executive Producer

Films

Year	Title	Director(s)^[a]	Studio	Role(s)
1991	Ranma ½: The Movie, Big Trouble in Nekonron, China	Iuchi Shuuji	Studio Deen	In-Between Animator
2010	Inazuma Eleven: Saikyō Gundan Ōga Shūrai	Miyao Yoshikazu	OLM, Inc.	Production Coordination
2011	Mahō Sensei Negima! Anime Final	Shinbou Akiyuki	Shaft Studio Pastoral	Storyboard
2011	Inazuma Eleven GO: Kyūkyoku no Kizuna Griffon	Miyao Yoshikazu	OLM, Inc.	Stereoscopic Production Manager
2016	Cyborg 009: Call of Justice	Kenji Kamiyama Koudai Kakimoto	OLM Digital	Production Coordination

Adult Anime

Year	Title	Director(s)^[a]	Studio	Role(s)
1996	Can Can Bunny Extra	Katsuma Kanazawa	Triple X	Key Animator
1998	Yu-No	Katsuma Kanazawa Yagoshi Mamoru	PP Project	Animation Director
1999	Demon Warrior Koji	Urata Yasunori	Phoenix Entertainment	Key Animator (#1, 3)
2000	Luv Wave	Katsuma Kanazawa	Triple X	Key Animator (#3)
2001	El	Katsuma Kanazawa	Green Bunny	Supervision Storyboard Character Designer Art Director
2001	Ryouki no Ori: Dai 2 Shou	Kon Nosei	Studio Kyuuma	Key Animator (#1)
2002	Kisaku the Letch	Yokoyama Hiromi	Himajin	Storyboard
2003	Houkago Mania Club: Koi no Hoshii no - The Animation	Fujimoto Yoshitaka Shiranui Kai	Himajin	Storyboard (#1)
2003	Servant Princess	Fujimoto Yoshitaka	Himajin	Storyboard (#2)
2003	Wife Eater	Yokoyama Hiromi	Himajin	Storyboard
2004	Ikusa Otome Valkyrie	Hiromi Mosan	Himajin	Storyboard
2004	Kisaku Spirit: The Letch Lives	Yokoyama Hiromi	Himajin	Storyboard (#2)
2006	Sora no Iro, Mizu no Iro	Banzou Tokita	Himajin	Supervision (#1) Storyboard (#1)

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Directors credited for all works as Director (監督, Kantoku) unless noted otherwise.

References

^ "New Aki Sora 'Line-Crossing' OVA, Staff Confirmed". Anime News Network. February 5, 2010. Retrieved 1 July 2011.

External links

Takeo Takahashi at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
Takeo Takahashi anime at Media Arts Database (in Japanese)

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[directors-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Directors credited for all works as Director (監督, Kantoku) unless noted otherwise.

[1] "New Aki Sora 'Line-Crossing' OVA, Staff Confirmed". Anime News Network. February 5, 2010. Retrieved 1 July 2011.

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v t e Works by Takeo Takahashi
Television series	Love Love? (2004) The Cosmopolitan Prayers (2004) Spice and Wolf (2008) Spice and Wolf II (2009) Yosuga no Sora (2010) So, I Can't Play H! (2012) Maoyu (2013) Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers (2015) Hinako Note (2017) Citrus (2018) Wasteful Days of High School Girls (2019) Ishura (2024) Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf (2024)
OVAs	Spice and Wolf: Wolf and Amber Melancholy (2009) Aki Sora (2009) Aki Sora: Yume No Naka (2010) The Island of Giant Insects (2019)
Films	The Island of Giant Insects (2020)
Related	Imagin Passione

v t e Imagin
Television series	Z-Mind (1999) Rizelmine (2002) The Cosmopolitan Prayers (2004) Love Love? (2004) Spice and Wolf (2008)
OVAs	Dōkyūsei 2 Special: Sotsugyōsei (1999–2000) Moonlight Lady (2001, #1–4) A Foreign Love Affair (2007–2008) Maiden Rose (2009) The Tyrant Falls in Love (2010) A Kiss for the Petals (2010)
Staff	Takeo Takahashi Hajime Ootani

v t e Passione
Television series	Haitai Nanafa (2012–2013) Rail Wars! (2014) Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers (2015) Hinako Note (2017) Citrus (2018) High School DxD Hero (2018) Wasteful Days of High School Girls (2019) Z/X Code reunion (2019) Interspecies Reviewers (2020) Higurashi: When They Cry – Gou (2020–2021) Higurashi: When They Cry – Sotsu (2021) Mieruko-chan (2021) Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World (2022) Love Flops (2022) Yuri Is My Job! (2023) The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy (2023) Ishura (2024) Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf (2024) Loner Life in Another World (2024) From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman (2025) Chained Soldier (season 2) (TBA) Nukitashi the Animation (TBA)
OVA/ONA	God Eater Rezo Nantoka Gekijou (2018) The Island of Giant Insects (2019) Bean Bandit (2021)
Films	The Island of Giant Insects (2020) Ōmuro-ke: Dear Sisters (2024) Ōmuro-ke: Dear Friends (2024)
Staff	Takeo Takahashi Naoyuki Tatsuwa
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