is Japanese animator. She has been involved with

TMS Entertainment , formerly known as the , also known as or , is a Japanese animation studio established on October 22, 1946. TMS is one of the oldest and most famous anime studios in Japan, best known for numerous anime franchises such as ''Lupin the Third'', ...

and many of Studio Ghibli's works. She is a member of the

Japanese Animation Creators Association The or JAniCA, is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving working conditions for workers in the anime industry. The group was formed in June 2007. History On October 15, 2007 over 500 animators gathered together to announce the formatio ...

(JAniCA). She is best known for her work on ''

Lupin the Third , also written as ''Lupin the Third'', ''Lupin the 3rd'', or ''Lupin the IIIrd'', is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Monkey Punch. It follows the endeavors of master thief Arsène Lupin III, the grandson of Arsène ...

'', '' Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland'', ''

Animaniacs ''Animaniacs'' is an American Animated series, animated Comedy television, comedy Musical film, musical television series created by Tom Ruegger for Fox Broadcasting Company's Fox Kids block in 1993, before moving to The WB in 1995, as part o ...

'', ''

Princess Mononoke is a 1997 Japanese animated epic historical fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network and Dentsu. The film stars the voices of Yōji Matsuda, Yuriko Ish ...

'', T''he New Batman Adventures'', ''

Spirited Away is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Tohokushinsha Film, and Mitsubishi and dist ...

'', ''

Sonic X is a Japanese anime television series based on Sega's ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' video game series. Produced by TMS Entertainment under partnership with Sega and Sonic Team, and directed by Hajime Kamegaki, ''Sonic X'' initially ran for 52 ep ...

'', ''Howl's Moving Castle'', and ''

Ponyo is a 2008 Anime, Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Buena Vista Home En ...

''.

Works

* ''

The Castle of Cagliostro is a 1979 Japanese animated action-adventure comedy film co-written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, with animation produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha (TMS). It is the second feature film featuring Monkey Punch's master thief Arsène Lupin II ...

'' (1979) – key animator * '' Lupin the 3rd'' (1977-1980) key animator * ''

The New Adventures of Gigantor is a 1980 Japanese Mecha Animated series produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha, and a modern style remake of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's manga ''Tetsujin 28-go''. It was directed by Tetsuo Imazawa and produced by both Shigeru Akagawa and Toru Horikoshi. It a ...

'' (1980-1981) – key animator "The Dreaded Double Robot" * '' Jarinko Chie'' (1981) – animator * ''Sugata Sanshirô'' (1981) – key animator * ''

Enchanted Journey ''Enchanted Journey'', released in Japan as , is a 1981 Japanese anime film directed by Hideo Nishimaki and based on the book of the same name by Atsuo Saitō. Plot Glikko is a domestically raised chipmunk who lives in an apartment with his sis ...

'' (1981) – animator * '' Space Cobra'' (1982-1983) – animator / Telecom Animation Film * ''

Here Come the Littles ''Here Come the Littles'' is a 1985 animated fantasy film produced in France by DIC Enterprises, Inc. and distributed by Atlantic Releasing. It was directed by Bernard Deyriès and adapted by Woody Kling from John Peterson's series of books, ...

'' (1985) – key animator * ''

Sherlock Hound is an anime television series produced by RAI and Tokyo Movie Shinsha. Based on the character Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, almost all the characters are depicted as anthropomorphic dogs. The show featured regular appearance ...

'' (1984-1985) – animator * ''

Galaxy High is a science fiction animated series that premiered on September 13, 1986 on CBS and ran for 13 episodes until December 6, 1986. The series was created by Chris Columbus and featured music and a theme song composed by Don Felder. The series ...

'' (1986) – key animator * ''

DuckTales ''DuckTales'' is an American animated television series produced by Disney Television Animation. The original cartoon series premiered on syndication and on Disney Channel on September 18, 1987 and ran for a total of 100 episodes over four ...

'' (1987-1990) – key animator "Lost Crown of Genghis Khan" (uncredited) * '' The Fuma Conspiracy'' (1987) – key animator * '' Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland'' (1989) – key animator * ''

Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates ''Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates'' (known in international markets as ''20th Century Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates'') is an American animated television series based on J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan that aired on Fox Kids from September 8, 1990, to S ...

'' (1990-1991) – animation director "The Dream" / TMS * '' Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation'' (1992) – key animator / TMS * ''

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog ''Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog'' is an animated series that was based on the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' video game series produced by Sega of America, DIC Animation City, Bohbot Entertainment and the Italian studio Reteitalia S.p.A. in associa ...

'' (1993) – animation director "Robotnik's Pyramid Scheme" * ''

'' (1993-1998) – animation director / Tokyo Movie Shinsha Co. Ltd. * ''

Pom Poko Pom or POM may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Pom (comics) (1919–2014), a Belgian comic strip writer and artist * Baby Pom, a fictional character in the British television programme '' Fimbles'' * Pom, a character in the video game ''Them's ...

'' (1994) – animator / Telecom Animation Film * ''

Whisper of the Heart is a 1995 Japanese animated romantic drama film directed by Yoshifumi Kondō and written by Hayao Miyazaki based on the 1989 manga of the same name by Aoi Hiiragi. It was animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network ...

'' (1995) – key animato r/ Telecom Animation Film * ''

Pinky and the Brain ''Pinky and the Brain'' is an American Animated series, animated television series that was created by Tom Ruegger that premiered on Kids' WB on September 9, 1995. It was the first animated television series to be presented in Dolby Pro Logic, D ...

'' (1995-1998) – animation director " A Pinky and the Brain Christmas" / TMS Kyokjichi Corporation * ''

The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries ''The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries'' is an American animated television series produced by Warner Bros. Animation which aired from September 9, 1995 to February 5, 2000 on Kids' WB. The final episode, containing the segments "The Tail End?" an ...

'' (1995-2002) – animation director / key animator / Tokyo Movie Shinsha Co. Ltd. * '' Superman: The Animated Series'' (1996-2000) – storyboard artist / key animator * ''

'' (1997) – key animator / Telecom Animation Film * ''

The New Batman Adventures ''The New Batman Adventures'' (often shortened as ''TNBA'') is an American superhero animated television series based on the DC Comics superhero Batman, which aired on Kids' WB from September 13, 1997 to January 16, 1999. Produced by Warner Bro ...

'' (1997-1999) – Director / storyboard artist / key animator * ''

Cybersix ''Cybersix'' is an Argentinean comic book series published in 1991, created by the Argentine authors Carlos Trillo (story) and Carlos Meglia (art) for the comics magazine '' Skorpio'' (Eura Editoriale). The series first appeared in Spanish in Nov ...

'' (1999) –

Storyboard A storyboard is a graphic organizer that consists of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence. The storyboarding process, in th ...

/ Director / key animator * ''

Wakko's Wish ''Wakko's Wish'' (originally titled as ''Wakko's Wakko Wish'') is a 1999 American animated musical comedy-adventure fantasy film based on the 1993–98 animated series ''Animaniacs'', serving as the series finale until the announcement of the 2 ...

'' (1999) – key animator (uncredited) * '' Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker'' (2000) – key animator * ''

'' (2001) – Animation Supervisor / Telecom Animation Film * '' WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3'' (2002) – animator * ''

'' (2003-2005) – key animator "Dr. Eggman's Ambition" * '' Hajime no Ippo: The Champion Road'' (2003) – key animator * ''

Howl's Moving Castle ''Howl's Moving Castle'' is a fantasy novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones, first published in 1986 by Greenwillow Books of New York. It was a runner-up for the annual Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and won the Phoenix Award twenty years ...

'' (2004) – Animator * ''Monmon the Water Spider'' (2006) – animation director * ''

Tales from Earthsea ''Tales from Earthsea'' is a collection of fantasy stories and essays by American author Ursula K. Le Guin, published by Harcourt in 2001. It accompanies five novels (1968 to 2001) set in the fictional archipelago Earthsea. . Retrieved 2012-02- ...

'' (2006) – key animator * ''

'' (2008) – key animator * '' Green Lantern: First Flight'' (2009) – key animator * ''

Summer Wars is a 2009 Japanese animated science fiction film directed by Mamoru Hosoda, produced by Madhouse, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film's voice cast includes Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nanami Sakuraba, Mitsuki Tanimura, Sumiko Fuji a ...

'' (2009) – key animator * ''

Arrietty ''Arrietty'', titled in Japan and ''The Secret World of Arrietty'' in North America, is a 2010 Japanese animated fantasy film directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi as his feature film debut as a director, animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon T ...

'' (2010) – key animator * '' Pandane to Tamago Hime'' (2010) – key animator * '' From Up on Poppy Hill'' (2011) – key animator * ''

The Wind Rises is a 2013 Japanese animated historical drama film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, animated by Studio Ghibli for the Nippon Television Network, Dentsu, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Walt Disney Japan, Mitsubishi, Toho and KDDI. It was rele ...

'' (2013) – key animator / Telecom Animation Film * ''

Space Dandy , is a 2014 Japanese comic science fiction anime television series produced by Bones. The series follows the misadventures of Dandy, an alien hunter who is "a dandy guy in space", in search for undiscovered and rare aliens with his robot ass ...

'' (2014) – key animator "The Search for the Phantom Space Ramen, Baby" * ''

When Marnie Was There is a 2014 Japanese animated psychological drama film co-written and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, produced by Studio Ghibli and distributed by Toho. It is based on Joan G. Robinson's 1967 novel of the same name. The film follows Anna Sa ...

'' (2014) – key animator * ''

The Boy and the Beast is a 2015 Japanese animated action- adventure fantasy film written and directed by Mamoru Hosoda. The film stars the voices of Kōji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Shōta Sometani, Suzu Hirose, Kazuhiro Yamaji, Mamoru Miyano, Kappei Yamaguchi, ...

'' (2015) – key animator * ''

Your Name is a 2016 Japanese animated romantic fantasy film produced by CoMix Wave Films. It depicts a high school boy in Tokyo and a high school girl in the Japanese countryside who suddenly and inexplicably begin to swap bodies. The film was commissio ...

'' (2016) – key animator * ''

Mary and the Witch's Flower is a 2017 Japanese animated fantasy film co-written and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, produced by Studio Ponoc founder Yoshiaki Nishimura, animated by Studio Ponoc, and distributed by Toho in Japan. Based on the 1971 book ''The Little Br ...

'' (2017) – key animator * '' Mirai'' (2018) – key animator

References

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