Hiroko Utsumi
Hiroko Utsumi is a Japanese anime director, animator, storyboard artist, and mangaka. She is best known for her work with Kyoto Animation, particularly as the original director of Free!, and for her later work at MAPPA, where she directed Banana Fish. She is a graduate of the Osaka Municipal College of Design.Works
Television animation
- Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid, animator
- The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, animator
- Kanon, animator
- Lucky Star, animator
- Clannad, animator
- Clannad After Story, animator
- The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, assistant director and animator
- K-On!, animator
- K-On!!, storyboard artist, episode director, animator
- Nichijou , storyboard artist, episode director, animator
- Hyouka, storyboard artist, episode director and animator
- Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions, storyboard artist and episode director
- Tamako Market, storyboard artist and animator
- Beyond the Boundary, storyboard artist and episode director
- Free!, series director, storyboard artist, episode director, unit director
- Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions -Heart Throb-, storyboard artist
- Free! Eternal Summer, series director, storyboard artist, episode director
- Days, storyboard artist and unit director for closing animation
- My Hero Academia, storyboard artist and unit director for second season closing animation
- , storyboard artist
- Banana Fish, series director, storyboard artist, episode director
- Dororo, storyboard artist
- Lucky Star OVA, animator
- K-On!, unit director and animator
Film animation
- Munto, animator
- The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, animator and unit director
- K-On!, animator and unit director
- Tamako Love Story, production committee
- , animation director and animator
Manga
- Super Carve!, serialized in Animedia
Short animation
- ', animator
- ', storyboard artist
