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{{short description|Japanese anime director and animator (born 1964)}}
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{{Nihongo|'''Shūkō Murase'''|村瀬 修功|Murase Shūkō|born May 31, 1964}} is a Japanese [[anime]] director and animator.<ref name="Wong 2006">{{Cite magazine |last=Wong |first=Amos |title=Creator Profile: Shukou Murase |magazine=Newtype USA |volume=5 |issue=12 |pages=50–53 |date=December 2006 |issn=1541-4817 }}</ref> A member of [[Sunrise (company)|Sunrise]], he is noted for contributing the character designs and key animation to ''[[New Mobile Report Gundam Wing]]'' and ''[[Argento Soma]]''. In 2000, he contributed the main character designs to ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]''. He made his directorial debut in 2002 with ''[[Witch Hunter Robin]]''.

==Works==
===Anime television series===
*''[[Yoroiden Samurai Troopers]]'' (1988) (animation director)
*''[[Mashin Eiyūden Wataru 2]]'' (1990) (animation director)
*''[[Mobile Suit Gundam F91]]'' (1991) (animation director)
*''[[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam]]'' (1993) (animation director)
*''[[New Mobile Report Gundam Wing]]'' (1995) (character designs)
*''[[Gasaraki]]'' (1998) (character designs)
*''[[Argento Soma]]'' (2000) (character designs)
*''[[Witch Hunter Robin]]'' (2002) (director, original creator)
*''[[Samurai Champloo]]'' (2004) (key animation, storyboards, episode direction, ED animation)
*''[[Ergo Proxy]]'' (2006) (director, storyboards, animation director)<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Scally | first1 = D. | last2 = Drummond-Mathews | first2 = A. | last3 = Hairston | first3 = M. | title = Interview with Murase Shūkō and Satō Dai | doi = 10.1353/mec.0.0064 | journal = Mechademia | volume = 4 | pages = 329–334 | year = 2009 | doi-access = free }}</ref>
*''[[The Tower of Druaga: the Aegis of Uruk]]'' (2008) (storyboards)
*''[[Gangsta (manga)|Gangsta]]'' (2015) (director)

===OVA===
*''[[The Heroic Legend of Arslan]]'' (key animation)
*''[[SD Gundam|Mobile Suit SD Gundam Matsuri SD Sengoku den Tenka Taihei hen]]'' (character design, animation director)
*''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory]]'' (key animation)
*''[[Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz]]'' (character Design)
*''[[Gundam Evolve 7]]'' (director, storyboards, episode direction and management)
*''[[Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge (anime)|Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge]]'' (character designs)
*''[[Blade Runner: Black Out 2022]]'' (character design, animation director)

===Film===
*''[[Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz|Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz -special edition-]]'' (character design)
*''[[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam|Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam A New Translation: Heirs to the Stars]]'' (animation director, key animation)
*''[[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam|Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam III A New Translation: Love is the Pulse of the Stars]]'' (key animation)
*''[[Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie]]'' (character designs)
*''[[Dante's Inferno Animated Epic Movie]]'' (one of the directors)
*''[[Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within]]'' (original character designs)
*''[[Genocidal Organ]]'' (director, screenplay, character design, storyboard, key animation)
*''[[Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash]]'' (director, storyboard, key animation)

===Video games===
*''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' (2000) (main character designs)

==Bibliography==
* ''The Complete Works of Street Fighter II Movie'' (ストリートファイター2・映画資料全集). [[Shogakukan]], 1994. {{ISBN|978-4091015792}}
* ''Top Creators Teach How to Characters'' (トップクリエイターが教えるキャラクターの創り方『サムライチャンプルー』『エルゴプラクシー』にみるアニメーション制作現場). MC Press, 2007. {{ISBN|978-4901972949}}
* ''Genocidal Organ Artworks'' (虐殺器官 アートワークス). [[Ichijinsha]], 2017. {{ISBN|978-4758015370}}

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://mediaarts-db.jp/an/anime_series?utf8=✓&asf%5Bkeyword%5D=村瀬修功&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=tv_a&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=tv_sp&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=movie&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=ova&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=event&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=personal&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=etc&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=blank Shuko Murase anime] at Media Arts Database {{in lang|ja}}

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[[Category:1964 births]]
[[Category:Anime directors]]
[[Category:Japanese animators]]
[[Category:Japanese animated film directors]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Sunrise (company) people]]


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