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 ...

, illustrator, character designer, supervisor, director,

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artist and a member of the circle . His pseudonym is . He worked with

Akiyuki Shinbo is a Japanese animator, director, compositional writer, and storyboard artist. Best known for his works with Shaft (company), Shaft, he has attained international recognition for his unique visual style and storytelling methods. Born in Koori, ...

at Shaft. His representative works include key animation for '' Popotan'', and character design for ''

Nurse Witch Komugi ''Nurse Witch Komugi'', known in Japan as , is an original video animation (OVA) anime series produced by Tatsunoko Production. The series lasted for seven episodes (eight if episode 2.5 that appeared in the middle of the series is included) ...

'', ''

The SoulTaker is an anime series that focuses on seventeen-year-old Kyosuke Date who was killed by his mother Mio Date, and afterward gained the ability to turn into an incredibly powerful winged mutant known as "The SoulTaker" and that he has a long-los ...

'' and ''

Monogatari is a Literary genre, literary form in traditional Japanese literature – an extended prose narrative tale comparable to epic (genre), epic literature. ''Monogatari'' is closely tied to aspects of the oral tradition, and almost always relates ...

''.

Filmography

Under the name Akio Watanabe

Anime is a Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, , in Japan and in Ja ...

* '' Etotama'' (original character design) * ''

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'' (character design) * '' Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation'' (character designer, chief animation director) * '' Higurashi When They Cry - Gou and Sotsu'' (character design) * ''

Hoshizora Kiseki is a 27-minute Japanese anime directed by Akio Watanabe and Toshikazu Matsubara, and produced by CoMix Wave Films as an original net animation. It was made available online on June 21, 2006, and then was released on DVD in Japan on August 3, ...

'' (director, script, character design, storyboard, animation direction, color design) * ''

Magical Kanan is a Japanese eroge, adult visual novel developed and published by Terios. It was later adapted into a hentai original video animation, OVA series; four episodes were released from August 25, 2000, to November 25, 2001, and two additional e ...

'' (character design) * ''

'' (chief animation director, character design) * ''

'' (character design) * '' Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream'' (original character design) * '' Rumble Garanndoll'' (original character design) * ''

'' (character design) * ''

Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko is a Japanese light novel series written by Takashi Shōji and illustrated by Takashi Akaishizawa from 1993 to 2013. The series received three adaptations by J.C.Staff and Akiyuki Shinbo consisting of two 3-episode OVAs and a 26-epi ...

'' (character design) * ''

The World God Only Knows , abbreviated as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tamiki Wakaki. It was originally serialized in Shogakukan's ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from April 2008 to April 2014, with its chapters collected in 26 ''tankōbon'' vo ...

'' (character design) * '' Zaregoto'' (character design) ;

Computer game A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, mo ...

s * ''

The Fruit of Grisaia is a Japanese adult visual novel, the first in a series of visual novels by Frontwing, with character designs by Akio Watanabe and Fumio. It was released in February 2011 for Windows, and it was later ported to the PlayStation Port ...

'' (character design) * ''L no Kisetsu'' * ''Missing Blue'' * ''With Me Every Time'' (animation director, character design) Others * Hoshiiro Drop (cover art) *'' 22/7'' (original character design for Yuki Tojo) *''PeroPero☆Teacher'' (Director, Character Design)

Under the name Poyoyon♥Rock

; Anime * ''

Djibril – The Devil Angel is an eroge visual novel series created by Frontwing composed of the classic entries and one spinoff, titled ''MegaChu.'' Each of the entries have also spawned trimmed down erotic OVA releases, which enjoyed mild popularity in the west. ...

'' (episode 2 opening movie) * '' Netrun-mon'' * '' Popotan'' (character design) ; Computer games * '' Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed'' (character design) * ''Angels in the Court'' * ''

Let's Fish! Hooked On ''Let's Fish! Hooked On'', also known in Japan as ''Let's Try Bass Fishing, FISH ON NEXT'', is an arcade fishing game developed for the PlayStation Vita by SIMS Co., Ltd, the creators of Sega Bass Fishing ''Sega Bass Fishing'', known in Japan ...

'' * ''Popotan'' * '' To Heart 2'' (opening movie) * '' Queen's Blade: Spiral Chaos'' (character design; for some characters) * '' Queen's Gate: Spiral Chaos'' (character design; for some characters) ;

Trading card A trading card (or collectible card) is a small card, usually made out of paperboard or thick paper, which usually contains an image of a certain person, place or thing (fictional or real) and a short description of the picture, along with other t ...

* '' Aquarian Age'' ; Others * "Akiba Kei SNS 'Filn Mascot characters Fil and Fal * "Moe Loan" Ron-tan ( Livedoor Credit) * Saitama O157 prevention campaign poster

References

External links

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Poyoyon♥Rock on Pixiv

Sukumizu Pettan
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