Ryuji Masuda

Template:Nihongo is a Japanese CGI animation director.

Some of his well-known works include Popee the Performer, Mr. Stain and Funny Pets.^[1]

He has been known to be active in both his native Kumamoto and Okinawa.

Works

List of works in media
Release date	Media	Crew role	Note
January 4th 2000 - January 1st 2003	Popee the Performer (POPEE the ぱフォーマー, POPEE the pa fōmā)	Director, original script/story writer	Debut work
January 6th 2003 - March 25th 2003	Mr. Stain on Junk Alley (ガラクタ通りのステイン, Garakuta-Doori no Sutein)	Director, original script/story writer
Template:Dts	Drive Car (ドライブカー)	Director, original script/story writer	music video
May 28th 2004	Onsen Tamago ~Yukemuri Kidan~ (温泉タマゴ ~湯けむり奇談~)	Director of "Yoshiko's 6th Sense", Screenplay writer of "Onsen Konoshi Doki"	3-in-1 live action/CG animated drama movie
January 11th 2006 - March 28th 2006	Funny Pets (ファニーペッツ, Fanī Petsu (Alternative name: Funny Pets Plus: Poetic and Lunatic))	Director, original script/story writer
Template:Dts-2009	Petit Eva (Evangelion@School)	CG Supervisor
April 1st 2009 - March 31st 2010	Charady's Daily Joke (キャラディのジョークな毎日, Charady no Joke no Mainichi)	Overall Director
November 22nd 2013	OH! Jesus (オー！ジーザス)	Director, original script/story writer	manga-like anime

Awards

In 2003, he received Excellent Animation Award in Cultural Affair Agencies Media Art Festival.Template:Fact

Books

In 2002, he helped with the "Popee the Performer" manga (he wrote the Magazine Z manga).

In 2007, he wrote the "Mr. Stain" and "Funny Pets" picture books.

Others

Special lecturer at Kyoto University of Art and Design.
Member of Directors Guild of Japan.

Personal life

During university, he studied film, but while looking for a job, he met anime director Seiji Endo, and although he got a job at an anime company, he left the company.^[2] He was impressed by the CG of Jurassic Park, which was being released at the time, and studied in the CG department of a game company.^[2]