Masaki Kajishima (梶島正樹 ''Kajishima Masaki'', born March 16, 1962) is a Japanese

animator An animator is an artist who creates images, known as frames, which give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, and video games. Animat ...

and storyboard artist who works for AIC in a freelance capacity. He is best known as the creator of ''

Tenchi Muyo! is a Japanese anime, light novel and manga franchise. The original series began with a six-episode Original video animation, OVA called . This original series was created by Masaki Kajishima and directed by Hiroki Hayashi, and it was rel ...

'' and ''

Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure is a Japanese anime series animated by AIC and created by Masaki Kajishima, best known for the '' Tenchi Muyo!'' franchise. It was originally broadcast on Wowow from April to July 1999 and was licensed in the US by Pioneer LDC, later k ...

''. The main character of ''Tenchi Muyo!'', Tenchi Masaki, was named after Kajishima (although the "Masaki" in Tenchi's name is the character's

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and is written with different

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). by

Yōsuke Kuroda is a Japanese anime screenwriter from Mie Prefecture, Japan. He has his own studio, Studio Orphee. Kuroda is noted for his work on authoring the scenario, screenplay, and story composition of the anime series ''Excel Saga'', '' Please Teacher!'' ...

and Masaki Kajishima Kajishima was born in Japan in

Okayama Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Okayama Prefecture has a population of 1,826,059 (1 February 2025) and has a geographic area of 7,114 Square kilometre, km2 (2,746 sq mi). Okayama Prefecture ...

. He was educated at the Osaka Design College. In addition to his anime works, he has written and published a collection of several dōjinshi dubbed ''Kajishima Onsen'', comics, and stories. He is also the author of the ''

Tenchi Muyo! GXP is a Japanese anime television series animated by AIC and broadcast on NTV from April 3 to September 25, 2002. It is the fourth installment of the ''Tenchi Muyo!'' line of series, succeeding '' Tenchi in Tokyo'', localized in North Amer ...

'' novels.

Works

Anime

*''

Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki , known as simply ''Tenchi Muyo!'' in North America, is a collection of Japanese Original video animation, OVAs created by Masaki Kajishima and animated by Anime International Company, AIC. Initially released in 1992, it marked the begin ...

'' (OVA, 1992–present) *'' Photon: The Idiot Adventures'' (OVA, 1997–1999) *''Spaceship Agga Ruter'' (OVA, 1998–1999) *''Masquerade'' (OVA, 1998–1999, 2000–2001) *''

'' (TV/OVA, 1999) *''

'' (TV, 2002) *'' Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar'' (OVA, 2009–2010)

Novels

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'' (2003–ongoing, 16 volumes) *''Paradise War'' (2013–2014, 3 volumes)

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* 1952 births Living people Anime character designers Japanese animators Artists from Okayama Prefecture Tenchi Muyo! {{Anime-bio-stub