Akira Watanabe

Akira Watanabe
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Gender:	Male
Date of birth:	unknown
Place of birth:	Japan
Location:	Japan
Nicknames:	渡邊章

Akira Watanabe (渡辺 章 ,Watanabe Akira) is a Japanese animator. He does key animation and animation director works in Detective Conan anime and OVAs.

Works in Detective Conan

• See Animation directed by Akira Watanabe

Watanabe began to serve an animation director for the Detective Conan anime since 2004, starting with The City Crows. He only did animation correction and worked under some of the episodes done by Tama Production. He then quit the anime production team after finishing the animation director work of The Mysterious Height Difference of 20cm the following year.

In the OVA aspect, Watanabe was also involved in two OVAs' production, working with another animator from Tama Production, Takashi Saijo.

Participation in: 1 OVA

• Conan, Kid, and the Crystal Mother (OVA 4): Animation director
• Shinichi Kudo, The Case of the Mysterious Wall and the Black Lab (Magic File 2): Key animation

Other notable works

Anime

• Ace of Diamond: Key Animation (Credited as "渡辺章")
• Astro Boy (2003): Key Animation
• Bleach: Key Animation
• BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense.: Assistant Animation Director, Key Animation
• Boruto: Naruto Next Generations: Key Animation
• Naruto Shippūden: Animation Director, Key Animation
• Naruto Spin-Off: Rock Lee & His Ninja Pals: Key Animation

Movies

• One Piece Film Strong World: Key Animation
• Urusei Yatsura: Lum The Forever: Assistant Animator

See also

• Tama Production

References

1. 渡辺章 - Atwiki (Japanese)
2. IMDb
3. Anime News Network