- Department
- Graduate School/Arts Studies
- Position
- Associate Professor *
- Specialization
- Animation, Moving Image
- Degrees Earned
- Bachelor of Arts, Kyoto University of the Arts
- Affiliated Academic
Arganizations
- None
- Profile
- Born in 1979. Based in Kyoto, Japan.
Founder of Studio Chrono / Animation Director / Izakaya Explorer
Part-time Lecturer, Kyoto Institute of Design (2012–2017)
Part-time Lecturer, Aichi Zokei Design College (2014– )
Part-time Lecturer, Kyoto Seika University (2026– )
Graduated from the Film and Media Arts Course at Kyoto University of the Arts (formerly Kyoto University of Art and Design). After working at the animation studios ufotable and iToon, he became a freelance animation director and relocated to Kyoto in 2011.
In 2013, he founded an animation school that continues today, where he mentors and educates the next generation of creators.
From 2015 to 2016, he organized the independent screening event Animation Banquet (Vol.1–3).
Sharing the joy of animation with children through workshops is also an important lifelong pursuit. In recent years, he has been responsible for animation classes in the Kyoto City cultural arts education program “Welcome Artists.”
- Message
- Do you ever imagine the person you want to become?
The journey toward that vision is a long and often solitary quest. Keep your feet firmly on the ground and keep asking yourself: What truly matters right now? Think in ways that refuse to be swallowed by the crowd, and act with originality and a playful spirit.
If your work can deliver a moment that makes someone you deeply care about say, “Oh, have mercy!”, that spark of surprise is something truly fabulous. That is what creators do. And if you keep creating with stubborn persistence, one day you may arrive at the view you have always hoped to see.
- Works
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love in the fluid
2012 Animated Short 3min.
chronoⅡ
2015 Animated Short 2min.
Opening Video for the 19th Kyoto Intercollegiate Festa
2021 Client Works 1min. 17sec.
