Ayu Imoto

Ayu Imoto
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Gender:	Female
Date of birth:	unknown
Place of birth:	Japan
Location:	Japan

Ayu Imoto (井元 愛夕 ,Imoto Ayu) is a Japanese animator. She does key animation and animation direction for Detective Conan anime and movies.

Works in Detective Conan

• See Animation directed by Ayu Imoto

Ayu was initially from Studio Mu. She joined the anime production in 2006, starting with the 1st part of The Sealed Western-Style Window, she was the in-between animation for that episode. The following year, she got promoted as key animator, and continually worked for seven years. Then, in 2014, she shortly got arranged to assistant animation director for the 2nd part of Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 9. After that, her work in the Detective Conan anime was an interlace between key animation and animation director (assistant AD sometimes as well).

Regarding her key animation work, from 2011 to 2013, she was mainly active in Kenichi Otomo's key animation group; from 2014 to 2016, she was mainly active in Nobuyuki Iwai's key animation group; from 2018 to 2020, she was mainly active in Asuka Tsubuki's key animation group.

Movies

Participation in: 14 movies

• The Raven Chaser (Movie 13): Key animation
• The Lost Ship in the Sky (Movie 14): Key animation
• Quarter of Silence (Movie 15): Key animation
• The Eleventh Striker (Movie 16): Key animation
• Private Eye in the Distant Sea (Movie 17): Key animation
• Dimensional Sniper (Movie 18): Key animation
• Sunflowers of Inferno (Movie 19): Key animation
• The Darkest Nightmare (Movie 20): Key animation
• The Crimson Love Letter (Movie 21): Assistant animation director, Key animation
• Zero the Enforcer (Movie 22): Animation director, Key animation
• The Fist of Blue Sapphire (Movie 23): Assistant animation director, Key animation
• The Scarlet Bullet (Movie 24): Assistant animation director, Key animation
• The Bride of Halloween (Movie 25): Assistant animation director, Key animation
• Black Iron Submarine (Movie 26): Assistant animation director, Key animation

Specials

Participation in: 4 specials

• Shinichi and Ran, Memories of Mahjong Tiles and Tanabata (Magic File 3): Key animation
• The Disappearance of Conan Edogawa: The Worst Two Days in History (Special 5): Key animation
• Fugitive: Kogoro Mouri (Special 4): Key animation
• Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small (Special 6): Assistant animation director, Key animation

Other notable works

Anime

• High School DxD: Key Animation
• Guin Sâga: Key Animation
• Gakuen mokushiroku: HIGHSCHOOL OF THE DEAD: Key Animation
• Fairy Tail: Fearî Teiru: Key Animation
• One Punch Man: Wanpanman: Key Animation

References

1. Page partially or completely translated from the Chinese version of July 8th, 2023.
2. AniList
3. IMDb
4. 井元愛夕 - Atwiki (Japanese)