Hatsuki Tsuji

Hatsuki Tsuji
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Gender:	Male
Date of birth:	October 15, 1950
Place of birth:	Hokkaido, Japan
Position:	Organizer Storyboard Key animation
Years active:	1976-present
Aliases:	榎本たけあき

Hatsuki Tsuji (辻 初樹 ,Tsuji Hatsuki), born in Hokkaido, is a Japanese director, storyboard artist and animation director.

Biography

Tsuji graduated from the graphic design department at the Asagaya Art Academy in Tokyo (東京・阿佐ヶ谷美術学園グラフィック・デザイン科). He was a former girls' manga artist and also once drew a manga named Detective Holmes (名探偵ホームズ) in an old Animage supplement. After working as an assistant to Yumiko Igarashi (いがらし ゆみこ), he entered the anime industry at the age of 26.

He used to affiliate with the studio Gallop (ぎゃろっぷ), but is currently freelance. Occasionally, he participates under the name Takeaki Enomoto (榎本 たけあき ,Enomoto Takeaki). Even now that he has passed his 60th birthday, he continues to be active, including drawing storyboards for many episodes of his directorial works.

He first joined the Detective Conan anime production in 2009, starting with anime original episode Intersection of Fear. Then, he quit the anime production from 2010 onwards. In 2020, he returned and became active as storyboardist for the Detective Conan anime episodes.

Works in Detective Conan

Anime

Participation in: 13 cases (16 episodes)

Jpn#	Int#	Episode title	Original broadcast	Role	Note
556	607	Intersection of Fear	November 21, 2009	Storyboard
580	631	The Crisis Beckoned by the Red Omen	July 10, 2010	Organizer, Storyboard
581	632	The Red Shaking Target	July 17, 2010	Organizer, Storyboard
965	1022	Kaiju Gomera vs. Kamen Yaiba (Prologue)	January 4, 2020	Key animation
966	1023	Kaiju Gomera vs. Kamen Yaiba (Interlude)	January 11, 2020	Key animation
1057	1114	Bad Guys	September 24, 2022	Storyboard
1062	1119	The Spiral of Rain and Malice	November 5, 2022	Storyboard
1066	1123	'Til Death Do Us Part	December 3, 2022	Storyboard
1068	1125	Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya's Detective Notes	January 7, 2023	Storyboard
1073	1130	The Detective Boys' Pursuit of the Purse-snatcher	February 11, 2023	Storyboard
1078	1136	The Black Organization's Scheme (Landing)	April 1, 2023	Key animation
1083	1141	Behind the Scenes of the J League Finals	May 13, 2023	Storyboard
1085	1143	The Inauspicious Matchmaking (Part 1)	June 3, 2023	Organizer, Storyboard
1086	1144	The Inauspicious Matchmaking (Part 2)	June 10, 2023	Organizer, Storyboard
1092	1150	Stakeout 2	July 29, 2023	Storyboard
1096	1154	Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya's Detective Notes 2	September 9, 2023	Storyboard

Movies

Participation in: 1 movie

Movie	Title	Original airdate	Role	Note
22	Zero the Enforcer	April 13, 2018	Key animation

OVAs

Participation in: 2 OVAs

OVA	Title	Original airdate	Role	Note
10	Kid in Trap Island	April 14, 2010	Storyboard
Magic File 4	The Osaka Okonomiyaki Odyssey	April 17, 2010	Storyboard

Other notable works

Anime

• Cardfight!! Vanguard: Storyboard, Director
• Inazuma Eleven: Key Animation
• Initial D: Key Animation, Animation Director
• Lupin III: Animation Director, Key Animation, In-Between Animation
• Pokemon: Animation Director, Key Animation, Storyboard
• Yu-Gi-Oh!: Director, Storyboard, Animation, Character Design
• Many others including Transformers, Black Clover, Sword Dynasty, etc.

References

1. 辻初樹 - Wikipedia (Japanese)
2. IMDb
3. Anime News Network
4. Bangumi (Chinese)