Minako Shiba

Minako Shiba
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Gender:	Female
Date of birth:	February 15, 1971
Date of death:	March 14, 2021 (at 50 years old)
Place of birth:	Kanagawa, Japan
Location:	Japan
Nicknames:	しば みなこ

Minako Shiba (芝 美奈子 ,Shiba Minako) is a Japanese animator and character designer. She did key animation and animation director works for Detective Conan anime and movies.

Works in Detective Conan

• See Animation directed by Minako Shiba

Shiba was born in Kanagawa Prefecture, and graduated from Chiyoda Institute of Technology (千代田工科芸術専門学校). Starting in 2009, she was affiliated with Studio C-ZOO.

According to Japanese media reports, the animation production company Studio Pierrot and many other industry posted obituaries, on the afternoon of March 14, 2021, Minako passed away at the age of 50.

Apart from being the assistant animation director in The Cornered Famous Detective! Two Big Murder Cases, she also did key aniamtion in The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case and The Falling from Mt. Ryujin Case.

Participation in: 4 movies

• The Fourteenth Target (Movie 2): Key animation
• The Last Wizard of the Century (Movie 3): Key animation
• Captured in Her Eyes (Movie 4): Key animation
• The Phantom of Baker Street (Movie 6): Key animation

Other notable works

Anime

• Hikaru no Go: Character Design, Animation Director
• Meine Liebe: Character Design, Animation Director
• Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle: Character Design
• Black Butler: Character Design, Chief Animation Director, Animation Director, Assistant Animation Director
• Dr. Stone: Chief Animation Director
• Fullmetal Alchemist: Animation Director
• Darker than Black: Animation Director
• Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE: Character Design, Animation Director
• Seven Deadly Sins: Key Animation

Movies

• Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic: Character Design, Chief Animation Director
• Naruto the Movie: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom: Key Animation
• Maquia - When the Promised Flower Blooms: Assistant Animation Director

OVAs

• Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas: Animation Director, Assistant Animation Director, Key Animation
• Black Butler: Book of Murder: Character Design, Chief Animation Director
• Gosho Aoyama's Collection of Short Stories: Key Animation

References

1. 芝美奈子 - Wikipedia (Japanese)
2. 芝美奈子 - Atwiki (Japanese)
3. Anime News Network
4. Bangumi (Chinese)