Hiroshi Hamasaki
- Visual effects
- December 30, 1959 · Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan
Biography
Hiroshi Hamasaki (浜崎 博嗣, Hiroshi Hamasaki, born December 30, 1959) is an animator, character designer, and anime director from Fukuoka, Japan. After finishing high school, he joined the training program of Tatsunoko Production, where he began his career as an animator. His early work included animation duties on Gatchaman II and several other series from the early 1980s. By the mid‑1980s he had moved into higher‑level roles such as animation director and character designer on titles like Alpen Rose and Outlanders. He later left Tatsunoko and worked mainly with Madhouse, contributing animation to many of the studio's productions. From the 1990s onward he expanded into storyboarding and direction. His directorial debut came in 2003 with Texhnolyze, followed by directing or supervising roles on Paranoia Agent, BECK, Shigurui, Steins;Gate, Terra Formars, Orange, and Blade of the Immortal. Throughout his career he has alternated between animation, storyboarding, and directing across TV, film, and OVA projects, establishing himself as a versatile figure in the anime industry.
Known for
Filmography
- Hell's Paradise · Storyboard Artist
- Blade of the Immortal · Director, Storyboard Artist
- Orange: Future · Director
- March Comes In Like a Lion · Storyboard Artist, Opening/Ending Animation
- Orange · Series Director, Storyboard Artist
- Upon the Interface of the Missing Link -Open the Missing Link- · Director
- Terra Formars · Director, Creator
- Terra Formars: Bugs-2 · Series Director
- Blade and Soul · Director
- Space Dandy · Storyboard Artist, Director
- Robotech: Love Live Alive · Director
- Iron Man: Rise of Technovore · Director, Storyboard Artist
- Steins;Gate: The Movie - Load Region of Déjà Vu · Key Animation, Director
- Attack on Titan · Storyboard Artist
- Steins;Gate · Director, Storyboard Artist
- Trigun: Badlands Rumble · Key Animation
- The Tatami Galaxy · Storyboard Artist
- Redline · Key Animation
- Shigurui: Death Frenzy · Series Director
- Highlander: The Search for Vengeance · Key Animation, Co-Director
- East Meets West: Filmmakers Crossing Borders · Self
- Claymore · Storyboard Artist
- Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad · Director, Storyboard Artist
- Paranoia Agent · Storyboard Artist, Director
- Program · Key Animation
- Texhnolyze · Director, Storyboard Artist
- Patlabor WXIII the Movie · Key Animation
- Metropolis · Key Animation
- Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust · Animation Director
- Blue Submarine No. 6 · Key Animation
- Spriggan · Key Animation
- Perfect Blue · Key Animation
- X · Key Animation
- Birdy the Mighty · Key Animation, Animation Director
- Bio Hunter · Animation Director, Character Designer
- Darkside Blues · Animation, Animation Director
- Bakuen Campus Guardress · Key Animation
- Ninja Scroll · Key Animation
- Kawaguchi Kaiji's 9 Love Stories · Director, Animation Director
- Nineteen 19 · Key Animation
- Cyber City Oedo 808 · Character Designer
- Hisashi Eguchi's It Will All Work Out! · Storyboard Artist, Director
- The Enemy's the Pirates! · Animation Director
- Goku II: Midnight Eye · Character Designer, Animation Director
- Yawara! · Key Animation, Animation Director
- Goku: Midnight Eye · Character Designer, Animation Director
- Bride of Deimos · Key Animation, Animation Director
- Junk Boy · Character Designer
- Wicked City · Key Animation
- Outlanders · Character Designer, Animation Director
- The Legend of Stars · Opening/Ending Animation
- Macross: Do You Remember Love? · Key Animation