Akiyuki Shinbo
Akiyuki Shinbo (新房 昭之, Shinbō Akiyuki) is a Japanese animation director and is part of the production team for Puella Magi Madoka☆Magica. Shinbo made his directional debut in 1994 with Metal Fighter Miku. His most important work was probably Soul Taker in which he started to develop his own unique style. In 2004 he defined his style further by directing Le Portrait de Petit Cossette by studio Daume, a bizarre love story of a man falling in love with a painting. While being a simple story, director Shinbo used surreal, bloody imaginery and strange camera angles to make the series a disturbing and highly atmospheric experience.
Also in 2004, Shinbo was then hired by Seven Arcs to work on Triangle Heart and its popular spin-off original magical girl show Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha by the same studio. Later Shinbo was hired by new SHAFT chief director Mitsutoshi Kubota together with Shin Oonuma and Tatsuya Oishi as 'supervisor', director and 'educator' at SHAFT. He has participated in every SHAFT production since then (except for He Is My Master) and used his unique directing style in each of these series. He also produced the 2009 best-seller TV anime series, Bakemonogatari.
During the production of Bakemonogatari and Hidamari Sketch, Shinbo expressed his desire to producer Atsuhiro Iwakami for a magical girl show. Iwakami asked Ume Aoki for original character designs and Gen Urobuchi as scriptwriter to work on their new project, Puella Magi Madoka☆Magica.
Works
- 1994 - Metal Fighter Miku
- 1999 - Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko
- 2001 - The Soul Taker
- 2004 - Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
- 2004 - Tsukuyomi: Moon Phrase
- 2005 - Pani Poni Dash!
- 2006 - Negima!?
- 2007 - Hidamari Sketch
- 2007 - Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
- 2007 - Ef - a tale of memories (supervisor)
- 2008 - Hidamari Sketch x 365
- 2008 - Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
- 2008 - Ef - a tale of melodies (supervisor)
- 2009 - Maria+Holic
- 2009 - Natsu no Arashi!
- 2009 - Bakemonogatari
- 2009 - Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
- 2009 - Natsu no Arashi! Akinaichu
- 2010 - Hidamari Sketch x ☆☆☆
- 2010 - Dance in the Vampire Bund
- 2010 - Arakawa Under the Bridge
- 2010 - Arakawa Under the Bridge x Bridge
- 2010 - Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru
- 2011 - Puella Magi Madoka Magica