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Yasuhiro Takemoto
Ako, Hyogo, Japan
Yasuhiro Takemoto (Japanese: 武本 康弘, April 5, 1972 – July 18, 2019) was a Japanese animator and television and film director. He worked at Kyoto Animation for almost his entire ani…
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Yasuhiro Takemoto (Japanese: 武本 康弘, April 5, 1972 – July 18, 2019) was a Japanese animator and television and film director. He worked at Kyoto Animation for almost his entire animation career after joining the company in 1996. His first major job as a director came in 2003 with Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu. Two years later he directed his sequel: The Second Raid. In 2007, Takemoto replaced Lucky Star director Yutaka Yamamoto after his dismissal. He led The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya and Nyorōn Churuya-san original net animation series, and was co-director with Tatsuya Ishihara of the second season of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, broadcast in 2009, as well as the film The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya. In 2012 he was in charge of directing Hyouka, based on a series of mystery novels by Honobu Yonezawa. In the series collaborated as screenwriter Shoji Gatoh, author of Full Metal Panic!. Two years later, in 2014, Takemoto was commissioned to direct another series of Gatoh novels, Amagi Brilliant Park. Four days after the Kyoto Animation arson attack on July 18, 2019, Takemoto was declared missing by his father, who stated "he was untraceable". His death was later confirmed by his relatives and authorities. Source: Wikipedia
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2025
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved
Movie Series Director
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2019
Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day
Movie Second Unit Director
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2018
Tsurune
TV show Story Supervisor
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2018
Liz and the Blue Bird
Movie Second Unit Director
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2018
Violet Evergarden
TV show Director
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2018
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! Take On Me
Movie Second Unit Director
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2017
Sound! Euphonium The Movie: May the Melody Reach You!
Movie Second Unit Director
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2017
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
TV show Series Director
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2016
A Silent Voice: The Movie
Movie Thanks
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2016
Sound! Euphonium The Movie: Welcome to the Kitauji High School Concert Band
Movie Second Unit Director
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2016
Myriad Colors Phantom World
TV show Opening/Ending Animation
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2015
High☆Speed!: Free! Starting Days
Movie Second Unit Director
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2015
Beyond the Boundary: I'll Be Here – Future
Movie Key Animation
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2015
Sound! Euphonium
TV show Storyboard Artist
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2014
Amagi Brilliant Park
TV show Writer
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2013
Beyond the Boundary
TV show Director
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2013
Free!
TV show Director
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2013
Tamako Market
TV show Director
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2012
Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!
TV show Director
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2012
Hyouka
TV show Series Director
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2011
Nichijou: My Ordinary Life
TV show Director
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2010
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
Movie Director
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2009
K-ON!
TV show Key Animation
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2009
Lucky Star in Budokan
Movie Himself
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2009
The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya
TV show Director
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2009
Nyoron! Churuya-san
TV show Director
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2007
Clannad
TV show Storyboard Artist
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2007
The Adventures of Minoru Shiraishi
Movie Director
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2007
Lucky Star
TV show Series Director
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2006
Kanon
TV show Storyboard Artist
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2006
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
TV show Director
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2005
Munto 2: Beyond the Walls of Time
Movie Key Animation
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2005
Air
TV show Director
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2003
Munto
Movie Key Animation
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2002
Tokyo Underground
TV show Director
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2002
Full Metal Panic!
TV show Director
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2001
Hamtaro: Adventures in Ham-Ham Land
Movie Key Animation
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2001
Kaze no Yojimbo
TV show Storyboard Artist
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2000
InuYasha
TV show Key Animation
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1999
Crayon Shin-chan: Explosion! The Hot Spring's Feel Good Final Battle
Movie Key Animation
