Toshihiko Masuda

Toshihiko Masuda (増田 敏彦, Masuda Toshihiko, born 1960) is a Japanese Emmy Award winning Director, Animator, and storyboarder, who is associated with P.A.Works, TMS Entertainment, The Answer Studio Co. Ltd., Studio Ghibli, and Warner Bros. Animation.

He is known for Akira, Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, the Lupin the Third franchise, Howl's Moving Castle, the naruto franchise, Tales from Earthsea, Ponyo, DuckTales, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, The New Batman Adventures, Sonic X, and Pokémon.

Joined 1980, as a leading animator and director of Telecom Animation Film, a subsidary of TMS. He also directed overseas films and won the Emmy Award in 1998 for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program for both Superman: The Animated Series and The New Batman Adventures.

Currently, he has worked mainly on TMS Entertainment works and sometimes serves as Character Design.

Video Games

• The Adventures of Batman & Robin (1995) (animation director)
• Blinx: The Time Sweeper (2002) (animation director)
• Professor Layton and the Last Specter (2011) (animation director) (P.A. WORKS)
• Return to PopoloCrois (key animator) (2016) (animation cut scenes)

OVA

• The Fuma Conspiracy (1987) (key animator)
• Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (1992) (animation director) (TMS)
• Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1988-1997) (mechanical animation director-To Earth)
• The Batman Superman Movie: World's Finest (1997) (Director/storyboard artist/background key designer)
• An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island (2000) (key animator) (TMS-Kyokuichi Corporation)
• Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000) (storyboard artist/animation director)
• Sky Girls (2006) (storyboard artist)
• Green Lantern: First Flight (2009) (key animator)
• Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010) (key animator)
• Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (2011) (key animator)
• Justice League: Doom (2012) (storyboard artist)
• Superman vs. The Elite (2012) (animation director)
• Son of Batman (2014) (key animator) (The Answer Studio)

TV Shows

• Ulysses 31 (1981-1982) (inbetween artist-Vengeance of the Gods)
• Inspector Gadget (1983-1986) (animation director-The Coo-Coo Clock Caper)
• Sherlock Hound (1984-1985) (inbetween artist-The Targeted Giant Coin Bank)
• Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears (1985-1991) (animation director-A New Beginning)
• The Real Ghostbusters (1986-1991) (animation director-Ghosts R Us)
• Galaxy High (1986) (key animator)
• ALF: The Animated Series (1987-1989) (animation director)
• DuckTales (1987-1990) (animation director)
• The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1988-1991) (animation director)
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (1989-1990) (animation director-Dale Beside Himself)
• Tiny Toon Adventures (1990-1992) (animation director\sequence director)
• Batman: The Animated Series (1992-1995) (animation director-Fear of Victory)
• Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (1993) (animation director-Prehistoric Sonic)
• Animaniacs (1993-1998) (animation director)
• The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries (1995-2002) (director) (Tokyo Movie Shinsha Co. Ltd.)
• Pinky and the Brain (1995-1998) (Director-A Pinky and the Brain Christmas)
• Superman: The Animated Series (1996-2000) (Director-5 episodes/storyboard artist/series director/background key designer/key animator)
• The New Batman Adventures (1997-1999) (storyboard artist/series director/background key designer)
• Cybersix (1999) (Producer/Director/animation director/key animator)
• Inuyasha (2000-2004) (key animator)
• Sonic X (2003-2005) (storyboard artist)
• Katsudou dai shashin: Mankatsu (2004) (character designer)
• Maid Sama! (2005-2013) (storyboard artist-Men & the Ayuzawa Cram School)
• Shizuku-chan (2006-2007) (storyboard artist)
• The Familiar of Zero (2006) (key animator-Louise the Zero)
• Death Note (2006-2007) (key animator-Frenzy)
• Pururun! Shizuku chan (2006-2007) (character designer/animation director)
• Big Windup! (2007-2010) (storyboard artist)
• Hayate the Combat Butler (2007-2008) (storyboard artist)
• Naruto: Shippuden (2007-2017) (key animator)
• Rideback (2009) (storyboard artist)
• Bleach: Burîchi (2009-2011) (key animator)
• Fairy Tail (2009-2019) (animation director-24-Hour Endurance Road Race)
• Blade (2011) (key animator)
• ThunderCats (2011-2012) (key animator)
• Mobile Suit Gundam AGE (2011-2012) (key animator)
• Kokoro Connect (2012) (storyboard artist)
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012-2013) (animation director)
• Pokémon (2013-2018) (key animator)
• Dramatical Murder (2014) (storyboard artist)
• Lupin the 3rd Part IV: The Italian Adventure (2015-2016) (storyboard artist/animation supervisor/key animator)
• Garo: Vanishing Line (2017-2018) (key animator-Sword)
• Black Clover (2017–present) (key animator-The Path to the Wizard King)
• Boruto: Naruto Next Generations (2017–present) (storyboard artist)
• Phantom in the Twilight (2018) (storyboard artist)
• Harukana Receive (2018) (key animator-I Want to Regain My Former Self)
• Kemono Michi: Rise Up (2019) (storyboard artist)
• Sakura Wars the Animation (2020) (storyboard artist)

TV Movies

• Lupin III: Seven Days Rhapsody (2006) (key animator)
• Lupin III: Elusiveness of the Fog (2007) (Director/storyboard artist)
• Lupin III: The Last Job (2010) (key animator)
• One Piece: Episode of Luffy - Adventure on Hand Island (2012) (key animator)

Films

• Akira (1988) (key animator) (Telecom Animation Film)
• Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989) (directing animator)
• Farewell to Nostradamus (1995) (assistant animation director)
• Inuyasha the Movie: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass (2002) (key animator)
• Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow (2004) (key animator)
• Howl's Moving Castle (2004) (key animator)
• Crayon Shin-chan: The Legend Called Buri Buri 3 Minutes Charge (2005) (key animator)
• Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew (2005) (key animator)
• Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel (2005) (key animator)
• Crayon Shin-chan: The Legend Called: Dance! Amigo! (2006) (key animator)
• The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) (key animator)
• Tales from Earthsea (2006) (key animator)
• Naruto the Movie: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom (2006) (key animator)
• Forest of Piano (2007) (storyboard artist)
• Detective Conan: Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure (2007) (key animator)
• Naruto Shippuden the Movie (2007) (key animator)
• Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion (2007) (key animator)
• Detective Conan: Full Score of Fear (2008) (key animator)
• Ponyo (2008) (key animator)
• Detective Conan: The Raven Chaser (2009) (key animator)
• Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Will of Fire (2009) (storyboard artist/key animator)
• Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Lost Tower (2010) (storyboard artist)
• Bleach: Hell Verse (2010) (key animator)
• Naruto the Movie: Blood Prison (2011) (storyboard artist/key animator)
• Berserk: Golden Age Arc I - The Egg of the King (2012) (key animator)
• Berserk: The Golden Age Arc II - The Battle for Doldrey (2012) (key animator)
• Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie (2012) (storyboard artist)
• Lupin III vs. Conan (2013) (key animator)
• Lupin the Third: The Gravestone of Daisuke Jigen (2014) (key animator)
• Lupin III: The Italian Game (2016) (animator) (opening)
• Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (2017-2018) (key animator)
• Napping Princess (2017) (key animator)
• Mary and the Witch's Flower (2017) (key animator)
• Lupin the Third: Fujiko Mine's Lie (2019) (key animator)

Emmy Award:

• 1998 – Outstanding Special Class Animated Program- Superman: The Animated Series and The New Batman Adventures.