Rie Nakajima

Rie Nakajima
Profile
Gender:	Female
Location:	Japan
Position:	Animation director Assistant animation director Layout animation director Key animation Layout check
Years active:	1994-present

Rie Nakajima (中島 里恵 ,Nakajima Rie) is a Japanese animator. She takes part in the production of Detective Conan anime and movies.

Biography

Rie Nakajima joined the production of the Detective Conan anime in 2008, with key animation of Episode 495: Clash of Red and Black (Coma). Starting 2018 with Episode 907: The J League Bodyguard, Nakajima began to participate in the anime production regularly.

Notably, she served as an assistant animation director in both episodes of the prominent series Episodes 927~928: The Scarlet School Trip. In 2021, Nakajima quit the production team and has not returned yet.

For the Detective Conan movies, Nakajima was involved in the production of movies 18-24.

Works in Detective Conan

• See Animation directed by Rie Nakajima

Anime

Participation in: 9 cases (11 episodes)

Jpn#	Int#	Episode title	Original broadcast	Role	Note
495	542	Clash of Red and Black (Coma)	February 4, 2008	Key animation
783	836	The Scarlet Truth	June 27, 2015	Key animation
907	962	The J League Bodyguard	July 14, 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
965	1022	Kaiju Gomera vs. Kamen Yaiba (Prologue)	January 4, 2020	Key animation
966	1023	Kaiju Gomera vs. Kamen Yaiba (Interlude)	January 11, 2020	Key animation
1002	1059	The Beika City Shopping Center Garbage Bin Mystery	April 17, 2021	Key animation	M24 pre-story
1004	1061	The 36-Cell Perfect Game (Part 2)	May 1, 2021	Assistant animation director
1005	1062	The 36-Cell Perfect Game (Part 3)	May 8, 2021	Key animation
1013	1070	The Man Who Loved Too Much	July 24, 2021	Key animation

Openings and Endings

Participation in: 1 opening

#	Song name	Original title	Role	Note
OP38	Greed	Greed	Key animation

Movies

Participation in: 7 movies

Movie	Title	Original airdate	Role	Note
18	Dimensional Sniper	April 19, 2014	Animation director
19	Sunflowers of Inferno	April 18, 2015	Animation director, Key animation
20	The Darkest Nightmare	April 16, 2016	Layout animation director, Key animation
21	The Crimson Love Letter	April 15, 2017	Assistant animation director
22	Zero the Enforcer	April 13, 2018	Assistant animation director
23	The Fist of Blue Sapphire	April 12, 2019	Layout check, Key animation
24	The Scarlet Bullet	April 16, 2021	Layout check, 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	Animation director, Key animation
6	Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small	December 9, 2016	Key animation

Other notable works

Anime

• Black Butler: Book of Circus: Key animation
• Duel Masters!: Animation director, Key animation
• Flower Witch Mary Bell: In-between animation, Key animation
• Ganbarist! Shun: Animation Director, Key animation
• Gozonji! Gekkō Kamen-kun: Digital photography (Rare Trick)
• Kekkaishi: Animation director, In-between animation, Key animation
• Lupin the 3rd Part 6: Key animation
• Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari S1 + S2: Animation director, Assistant animation director, Key animation
• Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury: Character animation director, Assistant character animation director, Key animation

References

1. Page partially or completely translated from the Chinese version of December 18th, 2023.
2. 中島里恵 - Atwiki
3. Rie Nakajima - Anime News Network
4. Detective Conan Staff Listing