Ryouki Kamitsubo

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Template:Nihongo is a Japanese director and storyboard artist best known for co-directing Hidamari Sketch with Akiyuki Shinbo.

Career

Kamitsubo began his career in the anime industry as a production manager for Film Magic in the early 90s. He transitioned to digital photography and visual effects work for Media Vision and, later, Gonzo in the mid and late 90s. In the early 2000s, he started doing episode directing and storyboard work. In 2004, he worked under Akiyuki Shinbo on the original anime series Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, and the following year was brought into Shaft by Shinbo the following year, where his first project with the company was as an episode director on Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase. He would later make his series directorial debut with Shinbo and Shaft in 2007 with Hidamari Sketch. Shinbo considered Kamitsubo, (at the time) setting designer Tatsuya Oishi, and art director Hisaharu Iijima to be the core staff responsible for the foundations of the style and presentation of Hidamari Sketch, even after both Kamitsubo and Oishi had left the series' production in their respective seasons.Template:Sfn Kamitsubo continued working with Shaft for a few years before deciding to base his work mostly out of Xebec, including his own series Softenni and Hen Semi. In 2012, however, he announced that he would be leaving the industry, and his final work would be as an episode director on the tenth episode of To Love Ru: Darkness under the pseudonym Template:Nihongo. Despite this, Kamitsubo returned to the industry in 2014, acting as a storyboard artist for Xebec's series Argevollen beginning with the 13th episode. Since 2017, Kamitsubo has mainly worked on series produced by Doga Kobo.

Works

Television series

Template:Color box In "Director(s)" column highlights Kamitsubi's directorial works.

Year	Title	Director(s)	Studio	SBTemplate:Efn	EDTemplate:Efn	Other roles and notes	Ref(s)
1991	Genji Tsūshin Agedama	Masao Namiki	Studio Gallop	Template:No	Template:No	Production assistant
	Hime-chan's Ribbon	Hatsuki Tsuji	Studio Gallop	Template:No	Template:No	Production assistant
1997	GeGeGe no Kitarō 4th Series	Daisuke Nishio	Toei Animation	Template:No	Template:No	Digital photography
1998	Himitsu no Akko-chan	Hiroki Shibata	Toei Animation	Template:No	Template:No	Digital photography
2000	Gate Keepers	Junichi Sato Template:Small Koichi Chigira	Gonzo	Template:No	Template:No	Photography
2001	Star Ocean EX	Hiroshi Watanabe	Studio Deen	Template:No	Template:Yes
	Hellsing	Umanosuke Iida Template:Small Yasunori Urata	Gonzo	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
2003	Bomberman Jetters	Katsuyuki Kodera	Studio Deen	Template:No	Template:Yes
	Peacemaker Kurogane	Tomohiro Hirata	Gonzo	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Digital director
	The Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok	Hiroshi Watanabe	Studio Deen	Template:No	Template:No	Opening director Ending director
2004	AM Driver	Isao Torada	Studio Deen	Template:No	Template:Yes
	Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha	Akiyuki Shinbo	Seven Arcs	Template:No	Template:Yes
	Yumeria	Keitarō Motonaga	Studio Deen	Template:No	Template:Yes
2005	Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase	Akiyuki Shinbo	Shaft	Template:No	Template:Yes	Key animator
	Gun x Sword	Gorō Taniguchi	AIC ASTA	Template:No	Template:Yes
2006	Inukami!	Keizō Kusakawa	Seven Arcs	Template:No	Template:Yes
	Negima!?	Akiyuki Shinbo Shin Oonuma Template:Small	Shaft	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
2007	Ef: A Tale of Memories	Shin Oonuma	Shaft	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
	Hidamari Sketch	Template:Yes	Shaft	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Ending director
	Hidamari Sketch Specials	Akiyuki Shinbo Template:Small	Shaft	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
2008	Dinosaur King: Season 2	Katsuyoshi Yatabe	Sunrise	Template:Yes	Template:No
	Kyōran Kazoku Nikki	Yasuhiro Kuroda	Nomad	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
	Hidamari Sketch x 365	Akiyuki Shinbo	Shaft	Template:No	Template:No	Ending director
	Hyakko	Michio Fukuda	Nippon Animation	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
	Kyō no Go no Ni	Tsuyoshi Nagasawa	Xebec	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
2009	Pandora Hearts	Takao Kato	Xebec	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
	Polyphonica: Crimson S	Toshimasa Suzuki	Diomedéa	Template:Yes	Template:No
2010	Ladies versus Butlers!	Atsushi Ōtsuki	Xebec	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
	Durarara!!	Takahiro Omori	Brain's Base	Template:Yes	Template:No
2011	Softenni	Template:Yes	Xebec	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Series composition Ending director
2012	To Love Ru Darkness	Atsushi Ōtsuki	Xebec	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Credited as Motona Hino
	Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne	Tatsuo Satō Template:Small Toshimasa Suzuki	Xebec	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
	Saki: Episode of Side A	Manabu Ono	Studio Gokumi	Template:No	Template:Yes
2014	Argevollen	Atsushi Ōtsuki	Xebec	Template:Yes	Template:No
	Trinity Seven	Hiroshi Nishikiori	Seven Arcs Pictures	Template:Yes	Template:No
2015	Kin-iro Mosaic	Tensho	Studio Gokumi	Template:Yes	Template:No
	Fafner in the Azure: Exodus	Takashi Noto Template:Small Nobuyoshi Habara	Xebec Zwei	Template:No	Template:Yes
	Plastic Memories	Yoshiyuki Fujiwara	Doga Kobo	Template:Yes	Template:No
	Triage X	Takao Kato Akio Takami	Xebec	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
2016	Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World	Masaharu Watanabe	White Fox	Template:Yes	Template:No
	Big Order	Nobuharu Kamanaka	Asread	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
	New Game!	Yoshiyuki Fujiwara	Doga Kobo	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
2017	Gabriel DropOut	Masahiko Ohta	Doga Kobo	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
	Gamers!	Manabu Okamoto	Pine Jam	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
	Eromanga Sensei	Ryōhei Takeshita	A-1 Pictures	Template:Yes	Template:No
	Hina Logi ~from Luck & Logic~	Hiroaki Akagi	Doga Kobo	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
2018	Hozuki's Coolheadedness	Kazuhiro Yoneda	Studio Deen	Template:Yes	Template:No
	Hinomaru Sumo	Kōnosuke Uda Template:Small Yasutaka Yamamoto	Gonzo	Template:Yes	Template:No
	Uchi no Maid ga Uzasugiru!	Masahiko Ohta	Doga Kobo	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
	Anima Yell!	Masako Satō	Doga Kobo	Template:Yes}	Template:No
2019	Wataten!: An Angel Flew Down to Me	Daisuke Hiramaki	Doga Kobo	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
	The Helpful Fox Senko-san	Tomoaki Koshida	Doga Kobo	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Ending director and storyboard
2020	A3! Season Spring & Summer	Masayuki Sakoi Template:Small Keisuke Shinohara	P.A.Works Studio 3Hz	Template:Yes	Template:No
	Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater	Takaharu Ōkuma	Doga Kobo	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
2021	The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter	Kenta Ōnishi	Okuruto Noboru	Template:No	Template:Yes
	My Senpai Is Annoying	Ryōta Itō	Doga Kobo	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
	Amaim Warrior at the Borderline	Nobuyoshi Habara	Sunrise Beyond	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
2022	Don't Hurt Me, My Healer!	Nobuaki Nakanishi	Jumondou	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
	Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie	Ryōta Itō	Doga Kobo	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
	Healer Girl	Yasuhiro Irie	3Hz	Template:No	Template:Yes
2023	Saint Cecilia and Pastor Lawrence	Sumie Noro	Doga Kobo	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
2025	The Shiunji Family Children	Template:Yes	Doga Kobo	Template:TBA	Template:TBA

OVAs

Year	Title	Director(s)	Studio	SBTemplate:Efn	EDTemplate:Efn	Other roles and notes	Ref(s)
1998	Blue Submarine No. 6	Mahiro Maeda	Gonzo	Template:No	Template:No	Visual effects
2000	Melty Lancer	Takeshi Mori	Gonzo	Template:No	Template:No	CG director
2005	Maria-sama ga Miteru	Yukihiro Matsushita	Studio Deen	Template:No	Template:No	Ending director
2010	Hen Semi	Template:Yes	Xebec	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Ending director (uncredited)
2015	Magical Suite Prism Nana: I Want to Fulfill My Dreams!? Hope Advancing (First Half)	Yukihiro Miyamoto	Shaft	Template:Yes	Template:No
2017	Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202	Nobuyoshi Habara	Xebec	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
2019	Wataten!: An Angel Flew Down to Me	Daisuke Hiramaki	Doga Kobo	Template:No	Template:Yes

Films

Year	Title	Director(s)	Studio	SBTemplate:Efn	EDTemplate:Efn	Other roles and notes	Ref(s)
2020	Kono Sekai no Tanoshimikata: Secret Story Film	Fumie Muroi	CLAP	Template:No	Template:Yes

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