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Template:Nihongo is a Japanese animator and character designer.
Career
Shiotsuki joined Hadashi Pro in the early 2000s as a rookie in-between animator. Within a few years, he left the studio and joined Shaft around 2003. Initially, Shiotsuki continued with in-between work, but was promoted to key animator within a year; and by 2006, he was doing animation direction work. In 2008, Shiotsuki received his first job as a character designer for one of the Shina Dark music videos.[1] Soon thereafter, he became more involved with Shaft's works as a main staff member taking on a variety of different roles from accessory designer, to chief animation director, and so forth. His first character design work for a televised anime came in 2015 when he designed the characters for Gourmet Girl Graffiti.[2] Shaft president Mitsutoshi Kubota gave Shiotsuki the first three volumes of the manga and asked him to make some drawings from it, and then asked Shiotsuki to draw something like a character chart which he submitted and was adopted by the production.
In 2022, he designed the characters for the Strike Witches spin-off series Luminous Witches,[3] and in 2024 designed the characters for Ninja to Koroshiya no Futarigurashi.[4]
Shiotsuki named Shaft colleague Nobuhiro Sugiyama as a particular influence on his style. NisekoiTemplate:Apostrophes first season, which Sugiyama drew the designs for and acted as chief animation director alongside Shiotsuki, garnered praise from the latter, who described the key visuals and character sheets as "godlike."[5]
Works
This is an incomplete list.
Teleivison series
Template:Color box Highlights character design or chief animation direction roles.
Template:Color box Highlights other main animation staff member roles.
| Year | Title | Director(s) | Studio | Roles | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Natsu no Arashi! | Akiyuki Shinbo Shin Oonuma |
Shaft | Accessory design Template:Small | |
| 2012 | Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb | Akiyuki Shinbo Yuki Yase |
Shaft | Chief animation direction assistance Template:Small | |
| 2014 | Nisekoi | Akiyuki Shinbo Naoyuki Tatsuwa |
Shaft | Chief animation director | [6] |
| 2015 | Gourmet Girl Graffiti | Akiyuki Shinbo Naoyuki Tatsuwa |
Shaft | Character designer Chief animation director |
[2] |
| 2016–2017 | March Comes In like a Lion | Akiyuki Shinbo Kenjirou Okada |
Shaft | Chief animation director Clothing designer Template:Small Prop designer Template:Small | |
| 2017–2018 | March Comes In like a Lion 2nd Season | Chief animation director | [7] | ||
| 2020 | Assault Lily Bouquet | Shouji Saeki Hajime Ootani |
Shaft | Chief animation director Sub-character designer |
[8][9] |
| 2022 | Luminous Witches | Shouji Saeki | Shaft | Animation character designer Chief animation director |
[3][10] |
| 2023 | The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses | Satoshi Kuwabara | Tezuka Productions (Shaft) | Chief animation director (#9) | |
| 2025 | Ninja to Koroshiya no Futarigurashi | Yukihiro Miyamoto | Shaft | Animation character designer Chief animation director |
[4] |
OVAs
| Year | Title | Director(s) | Studio | Roles | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Shina Dark | Naoyuki Konno Shinpei Tomooka Shin Oonuma Toshimasa Suzuki |
Shaft | Character designer | [1] |
| 2013 | Hidamari Sketch: Sae & Hiro's Graduation Arc | Akiyuki Shinbo Yuki Yase |
Shaft | Clothing designer Template:Small | |
| 2014 | Nisekoi | Akiyuki Shinbo Naoyuki Tatsuwa |
Shaft | Chief animation director Template:Small | |
| 2015 | Magical Suite Prism Nana | Yukihiro Miyamoto | Shaft | Character designer Template:Small | [11] |
Films
| Year | Title | Director(s) | Studio | Roles | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | The Quintessential Quintuplets~ | Yukihiro Miyamoto | Shaft | Character designer Chief animation director |
[12] |