Miwa Oshima

Miwa Oshima
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Gender:	Female
Date of birth:	unknown
Place of birth:	Tokyo, Japan
Location:	Japan

Miwa Oshima (大島 美和 ,Ōshima Miwa) is a Japanese animation director and character designer from Tokyo. She does key animation, animation director, and sub-character designing in Detective Conan anime and movies. She is affiliated with Studio Live.

Works in Detective Conan

• See Animation directed by Miwa Oshima

Oshima joined the production of the Detective Conan anime in 1997, starting with Sports Club Murder Case and did key animation for the anime. She was then promoted to do animation direction in the end of 1998, starting with the 1st part of A Mysterious Sniper Murder Case. She quit the anime production in 2000, after finishing the animation direction work for the 1st part of The Water Palace of Five Colors Legend. As an animator in general, she is known for her character design as well, in the Detective Conan anime, she also served as the sub-character design for a few cases, for example, The Night Before the Wedding Locked Room Case and Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story.

In 2017, Oshima returned to the anime production team, starting with the 2nd part of Conan and Heiji's Nue Legend. And she served as key animator, animation director, and assistant animation director for some anime episodes, until present.

Participation in: 11 movies

• The Fourteenth Target (Movie 2): Key animation
• Captured in Her Eyes (Movie 4): Key animation
• Countdown to Heaven (Movie 5): Key animation
• Crossroad in the Ancient Capital (Movie 7): Key animation
• Strategy Above the Depths (Movie 9): Key animation
• Private Eye in the Distant Sea (Movie 17): Animation director
• Sunflowers of Inferno (Movie 19): Assistant animation director
• The Crimson Love Letter (Movie 21): Key animation
• The Scarlet Bullet (Movie 24): Assistant animation director, 2nd key animation
• The Bride of Halloween (Movie 25): Assistant animation director
• Black Iron Submarine (Movie 26): Key animation, 2nd key animation

Participation in: 1 special

• Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small (Special 6): Key animation

Participation in: 1 game

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

Other notable works

Anime

• Detective Conan: Zero's Tea Time: Key Animation
• Baka and Test - Summon the Beasts: Character Design, Chief Animation Director, Animation Director, Key Animation
• Dragon Ball Z: In-Between Animation
• Grenadier: Key Animation
• Honey and Clover: Key Animation
• Koihime Musō: Character Design, Chief Animation Director
• Rurouni Kenshin: Key Animation
• The Story of Saiunkoku: Character Design

References

1. 大島美和 - Wikipedia (Japanese)
2. Anime News Network