Ken Araya

Ken Araya
Profile
Gender:	Male
Location:	Japan
Position:	Animation director Assistant animation director Key animation 2nd key animation
Years active:	1990-present
Last name possibly read "Shintani", "Shinya", "Niitani", etc. First name possibly "Nori".

Ken Araya (新谷 憲 ,Araya Ken) is a Japanese animation director. He takes part in the production of Detective Conan anime and movies.

Biography

Ken Araya started animation in 1990 and became staff in Detective Conan for the first time in 2012 for Movie 16: The Eleventh Striker - as key animation. In the Detective Conan anime, he first started in March 2013 in Episode 692: The Evening Cherry Blossom Viewing Route on Sumida River (Part 1), being part of the key animation group.

He first became animation director in July 2017, starting with Episode 867: The Betrayal's Stage (Part 2) and is still active to this day; taking on the roles of key animation, animation director and assistant animation director alternatively. In the Detective Conan movies, he became assistant animation director for the first time in 2018 in Movie 22: Zero the Enforcer. In 2022, Araya was animation director in four episodes of the spin-off story Hanzawa the Criminal.

Works in Detective Conan

• See Animation directed by Ken Araya

Anime

Participation in: 23 cases (26 episodes)

Jpn#	Int#	Episode title	Original broadcast	Role	Note
692	744	The Evening Cherry Blossom Viewing Route on Sumida River (Part 1)	March 23, 2013	Key animation
742	795	Promise with a J-Leaguer	June 14, 2014	Key animation
781	834	The Scarlet Intersection	June 13, 2015	Key animation
783	836	The Scarlet Truth	June 27, 2015	Key animation
789	842	The Queen's Weather Forecast	August 15, 2015	Key animation
804	857-858	Conan and Ebizo's Kabuki Jūhachiban Mystery (Part 1)	January 9, 2016	Key animation	1 hour
867	922	The Betrayal's Stage (Part 2)	July 22, 2017	Animation director
873	928	Conan and Heiji's Nue Legend (Claw)	September 16, 2017	Key animation
907	962	The J League Bodyguard	July 14, 2018	Animation director
923	978	A Day Without Conan	December 1, 2018	Animation director
926	981	The Heartfelt Strap (Part 2)	December 22, 2018	Key animation
927	982-983	The Scarlet School Trip (Bright Red Arc)	January 5, 2019	Assistant animation director, Key animation	1 hour
928	984-985	The Scarlet School Trip (Red Love Arc)	January 12, 2019	Assistant animation director, Key animation	1 hour
930	987	A Woman Standing by the Window (Part 2)	February 9, 2019	Animation director
943	1000	The Tokyo Barls Collection	June 15, 2019	Animation director
948	1005	The Man Crushed by a Dinosaur	July 27, 2019	Assistant animation director
965	1022	Kaiju Gomera vs. Kamen Yaiba (Prologue)	January 4, 2020	Assistant animation director
984	1041	Kid vs. Komei: The Targeted Lips (Part 2)	October 10, 2020	Key animation
988	1045	The Feuding Girls	November 14, 2020	Assistant animation director, Key animation
1018	1075	The Antique Tray Can't Be Hidden (Part 1)	September 11, 2021	Assistant animation director
1020	1077	The Antique Tray Can't Be Hidden (Part 3)	September 25, 2021	Assistant animation director
1079	1137	The Black Organization's Scheme (Identity)	April 8, 2023	Key animation
1087	1145	The Case of Ayumi's Illustrated Diary 3	June 17, 2023	Key animation
1104	1162	The True Culprit is On the Run	November 18, 2023	Animation director
1114	1172	The Holed-Up Sensation	February 10, 2024	Animation director, Key animation
1125	1183	The Case of Ayumi's Illustrated Diary 4	June 1, 2024	Animation director

Movies

Participation in: 12 movies

Movie	Title	Original airdate	Role	Note
16	The Eleventh Striker	April 14, 2012	Key animation
Crossover	Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie	December 7, 2013	Key animation
18	Dimensional Sniper	April 19, 2014	Key animation
19	Sunflowers of Inferno	April 18, 2015	Key animation
20	The Darkest Nightmare	April 16, 2016	Key animation
21	The Crimson Love Letter	April 15, 2017	Key animation
22	Zero the Enforcer	April 13, 2018	Assistant animation director, Key animation
23	The Fist of Blue Sapphire	April 12, 2019	Assistant animation director, Key animation
24	The Scarlet Bullet	April 16, 2021	Key animation
25	The Bride of Halloween	April 15, 2022	Key animation
26	Black Iron Submarine	April 14, 2023	Assistant animation director, Key animation
27	The Million-dollar Pentagram	April 12, 2024	Assistant animation director, Key animation

Specials

Participation in: 2 specials

Special	Title	Original airdate	Role	Note
5	The Disappearance of Conan Edogawa: The Worst Two Days in History	December 26, 2014	Key animation
6	Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small	December 9, 2016	Key animation

Spin-offs

The Culprit Hanzawa

Participation in: 4 episodes

Jpn#	Episode title	Original broadcast	Role	Note
3	Inescapable Hell	October 18, 2022	Animation director
4	The Jet-Black Shower Scene	October 25, 2022	Animation director
7	The Part-Time Workers' Requiem	November 15, 2022	Animation director
11	Oh! Fortune	December 13, 2022	Animation director

Works in Magic Kaito

Magic Kaito: Kid the Phantom Thief

Participation in: 7 episodes

Special	Episode title	Original broadcast	Role	Note
3	The Princess Prefers Magic	August 13, 2011	Key animation, 2nd key animation
4	A Witch Sheds No Tears	September 24, 2011	Key animation, 2nd key animation
5	The Fated Blue Birthday	October 29, 2011	Key animation
6	Love on the Ski Slope on Christmas Eve	December 24, 2011	Key animation
7	The Splendid Rivals	August 4, 2012	Key animation
9	The Witch, the Detective, and the Phantom Thief	September 29, 2012	Key animation
10	The Reminiscent Golden Eye	November 3, 2012	Key animation

Other notable works

Anime

• Actually, I Am… : Key animation
• Baki : Animation director, Key animation
• D.Gray-man : Key animation
• Fist of the North Star : Key animation
• Lupin III : Key animation
• Pokémon : Key animation
• Many more including Anpanman, Chibi Maruko-chan, Ultraman, etc.

References

1. Page partially or completely translated from the Chinese version of October 29, 2023.
2. 新谷憲 - Atwiki
3. Ken Araya - IMDb
4. Ken Araya - Anime News Network
5. Detective Conan Staff Listing