Sumio Watanabe

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Sumio Watanabe

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Profile
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Position: Storyboard
Key animation
Studio: Studio Guts
Years active: 1984-present
Aliases: 渡边纯夫
渡辺すみお

Sumio Watanabe (渡辺 純央 Watanabe Sumio?) is a Japanese animator. He takes part in the production of Detective Conan anime and movies.

Biography

Sumio Watanabe is affiliated with Studio Guts. Watanabe debuted as an animator in 1984, via the TV movie Lensman (SF新世紀レンズマン). From 2003 to 2007, Watanabe's frequency of serving the role of storyboard and director was extremly high, but currently he is doing key animation work more often. In addition, he had also served as the president of the "Meta Studio", a drawing department from Studio Guts. He is now giving lectures at Tokyo Zokei University (東京造形大学). Being one of the industry veterans, his diversified storyboard and directing techniques had influenced several junior animators, for example Hiroaki Takagi.

Starting with Episode 911: The Job Request from Inspector Megure in 2018, Watanabe started to participate in the Detective Conan anime production irregularly.

Works in Detective Conan

Anime

Participation in: 5 cases (6 episodes)

Jpn# Int# Episode title Original broadcast Role Note
911 966 The Job Request from Inspector Megure September 1, 2018 Storyboard
921 976 The Murderous Carpool November 17, 2018 Storyboard
929 986 A Woman Standing by the Window (Part 1) February 2, 2019 Storyboard
930 987 A Woman Standing by the Window (Part 2) February 9, 2019 Storyboard
1069 1126 The Sweet Voice Heard Through the Phone January 14, 2023 Storyboard
1108 1166 The Secret Hidden By the Cards December 23, 2023 Storyboard

Movies

Participation in: 1 movie

Movie Title Original airdate Role Note
23 The Fist of Blue Sapphire April 12, 2019 Key animation

Other notable works

Anime

  • Akame ga KILL!: Key animation
  • Beelzebub: Key animation
  • Castle in the Sky: In-between animation assistance
  • Demashitaa! Powerpuff Girls Z : Storyboard, Episode director
  • Digimon Fusion : Key animation
  • Many more including Lupin III, Monster Hunter, One Piece, Seven Deadly Sins, etc.

See also

References

  1. 渡辺純央 - Wikipedia
  2. Sumio Watanabe - IMDb
  3. Sumio Watanabe - Anime News Network
  4. Detective Conan Staff Listing