Keiko Sasaki

Keiko Sasaki
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Gender:	Female
Date of birth:	unknown
Location:	Japan

Keiko Sasaki (佐々木 恵子 ,Sasaki Keiko) is a Japanese animation director. She participated several roles in Detective Conan anime, movies, and OVAs as key animation, chief animation director, design works, and sub-character etc. She is affiliated with Studio Boomerang.

Works in Detective Conan

• See Animation directed by Keiko Sasaki

Sasaki joined the Detective Conan anime production in episode Mountain Villa Bandaged Man Murder Case, as an animation director. From the second half of 2003 to the second half of 2014, she quit being a regular animation director, and allegedly, one of the reasons was she did not feel comfortable doing drawing works on the computer. During this period of time, she was still very active in the anime team, doing sub-character design works. Meanwhile also being the chief animation director for a few TV specials and OVAs.

After 2014, she became a regular animation director, until present. She usually works with the president of Studio Boomerang, Minoru Tozawa.

Movies

Participation in: 13 movies

• The Time-Bombed Skyscraper (Movie 1): Animation director
• The Last Wizard of the Century (Movie 3): Key animation
• Captured in Her Eyes (Movie 4): Key animation
• Countdown to Heaven (Movie 5): 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): Assistant animation director, Key animation
• The Darkest Nightmare (Movie 20): Key animation
• Zero the Enforcer (Movie 22): Assistant animation director
• The Scarlet Bullet (Movie 24): Assistant animation director, Key animation
• The Bride of Halloween (Movie 25): Assistant animation director, Key animation, 2nd key animation
• Black Iron Submarine (Movie 26): Assistant animation director, Key animation

OVAs

Participation in: 13 OVAs

• Conan vs. Kid vs. Yaiba - The Grand Battle for the Treasure Sword!! (OVA 1): Key animation, Animation director
• 16 Suspects!? (OVA 2): Key animation, Animation director
• Conan, Heiji, and the Vanished Boy (OVA 3): Chief animation director
• The Stranger from Ten Years Later (OVA 9): Animation director
• Kid in Trap Island (OVA 10): Sub-character design, Animation director
• A Secret Order From London (OVA 11): Sub-character design, Animation director
• The Osaka Okonomiyaki Odyssey (Magic File 4): Sub-character design, Animation director
• Niigata~Tokyo Souvenir Capriccio (Magic File 5): Sub-character design, Animation director
• Flower of Fantasista (Bonus File 1): Sub-character design
• Chase the Mysterious Comet Monster! (Shogakukan Illustrated Encyclopedia Series 6): Key animation
• City Exploration! Get the Animal Mark! (Shogakukan Illustrated Encyclopedia Series 9): Animation director
• Fatuous Detective!? Kogoro Mouri (Detective Conan vs. Wooo 1): Sub-character design, Animation director
• Television Personality Maomi Yuki's Worries (Detective Conan vs. Wooo 2): Sub-character design, Animation director

Games

Participation in: 1 game

• Detective Conan: The Great Deduction of Three People (2000): Animation director (Opening animation)

Other notable works

Anime

• Detective Conan: Zero's Tea Time: Animation director
• Detective Conan: The Culprit Hanzawa: Assistant animation director
• Aka-chan to Boku: Animation
• Itazura na Kiss: Animation director, Key animation
• Kaitou Saint Tail: Animation director

See also

• Studio Boomerang

References

1. Page partially or completely translated from the Chinese version of June 24th, 2023.
2. 佐々木恵子 - Wikipedia (Japanese)
3. Anime News Network