Kazuki Akane

Kazuki Akane (赤根 和樹, Akane Kazuki, born March 24, 1962, in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture) is a Japanese animation director. Until the early 2000s, he was a staff member of the anime studio Sunrise, where he collaborated with Shoji Kawamori to direct his most famous work, The Vision of Escaflowne. Since that time, he worked extensively with Satelight (and occasionally again with Kawamori, who is the studio's executive director) before going freelance once more to direct the Birdy the Mighty TV series, among other projects.

List of works

• Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ series (1986–1987) - Production Runner (numerous episodes)
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack movie (1988) - Production Runner
• Jushin Liger series (1989–1990) - Episode Director
• Dragon Quest series (1989–1991) - Storyboard Artist (episode 17)
• Future GPX Cyber Formula series (1991) - Storyboard Artist, Unit Director
• Mobile Suit Gundam F91 movie (1991) - Assistant Director
• Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory OVA series (1991–1992) - Unit Director
• Dirty Pair Flash: Mission III OVA series (1995–1996) - Storyboard Artist (episode 2)
• The Vision of Escaflowne series (1996) - Director, Storyboard Artist (numerous episodes), Unit Director (episode 24)
• Cowboy Bebop series (1998–1999) - Storyboard Artist (episode 3)
• Turn A Gundam series (1999–2000) - Storyboard Artist
• Escaflowne: A Girl in Gaea movie (2000) - Director, Script (with Ryota Yamaguchi)
• Geneshaft series (2001) - Director, Storyboard Artist, Planner
• Heat Guy J series (2002–2003) - Original Creator, Director, Screenplay, Storyboard Artist, Planner
• Samurai Champloo series (2004–2005) - Storyboard Artist
• Genesis of Aquarion series (2005) - Storyboard Artist (episode 2)
• Noein series (2005) - Original Creator, Director, Series Composition, Script (episodes 1, 2, 16), Episode Director (episode 24), Storyboard Artist (opening credits, 1, 2, 16, 24)
• Ergo Proxy series (2006) - Storyboard Artist (episode 20)
• Birdy the Mighty Decode series (2008), Director
• Code Geass: Akito the Exiled (2012–2016) - Director, Script
• Stars Align (2019), Director

References

External links

• Kazuki Akane at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Kazuki Akane at IMDb

1. Code Geass: Akito the Exiled
2. Stars Align
3. Akane
4. Kazuki
5. The Vision of Escaflowne
6. Escaflowne (film)
7. List of Code Geass episodes
8. Noein: To Your Other Self
9. Nobuteru Yūki
10. List of Future GPX Cyber Formula episodes
11. Akane Tomonaga
12. Attack on Titan season 4
13. Heat Guy J
14. Code Geass
15. Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku
16. Birdy the Mighty
17. Bones (studio)
18. Eight Bit (studio)
19. Ronin Warriors
20. List of Attack on Titan episodes