Akiko Kawashima

Akiko Kawashima
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Gender:	Female
Location:	Japan
Position:	Animation director Assistant animation director Key animation
Studio:	Sunshine Corporation

Akiko Kawashima (川島 明子 ,Kawashima Akiko) is a Japanese animator. She does key animation and animation director works in Detective Conan anime. She is affiliated with Sunshine Corporation.

Biography

Akiko Kawashima joined the production of the Detective Conan anime in 1996, starting with Pro Soccer Player Blackmail Case, and served as a regular key animator for anime episodes. In 2002, she began to work as an animation director, starting with the 1st part of The Secret Rushed Omission; she replaced Keiichi Ishida, a former regular animation director, in terms of the position. Thereafter, she officially delegated the studio for Detective Conan production, being the core animator of Sunshine Corporation.

Starting with the 2nd part of The Similar Princesses, the episodes that she worked on started to credit the studio as production cooperation, after director Masato Sato became the director (most likely because that those episodes were not fully outsourced so the company name was not credited). Back then, director Sato altered the anime character design - from Masatomo Sudo to Mari Tominaga; owing to the lack of proficiency on the strangeness character design, her exquisite drawing style was affected upon that. However, there were many signs indicating that she was impersonating those superb animators' style from that time - the quintessential Keiko Sasaki styled character eyes (episode 360); along with the character face shapes in Mari Tominaga's style (episode 367).

Kawashima's art style in Detective Conan anime can be described as unsteady; yet she contributed to many impressive frames and even performed exceedingly wonderful at times with her corrected frames (especially during the Masato Sato period when there were a shortage of aniamtors). Nonetheless, she ceased serving as animation director after the 2nd part of Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 7; her position was then offered to Ayako Tauchi. She eventually quit the production team after finishing the key animation work of Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story - Fake Wedding, along with the studio.

Works in Detective Conan

• See Animation directed by Akiko Kawashima

Anime

Participation in: 82 cases (83 episodes)

Jpn#	Int#	Episode title	Original broadcast	Role	Note
10	10	Pro Soccer Player Blackmail Case	March 11, 1996	Key animation
18	19	An Elevator Murder Case	June 3, 1996	Key animation
41	42	Victory Flag Tearing Case	December 9, 1996	Key animation
46	47	Alpine Hut in the Snowy Mountain Murder Case	February 3, 1997	Key animation
51	52	The Golf Driving Range Murder Case	March 10, 1997	Key animation
59	61	The First Errand Murder Case	May 19, 1997	Key animation
64	66	The Third Fingerprint Murder Case	June 23, 1997	Key animation
71	73	A Stalker's Murder Case	August 11, 1997	Key animation
75	77	Loan Company President's Murder Case	September 8, 1997	Key animation
79	82	The Bank Heist Murder Case	November 3, 1997	Key animation
83	86	General Hospital Murder Case	December 1, 1997	Key animation
90	93	The Flower Scent Murder Case	February 9, 1998	Key animation
94	97	Snow Woman's Legend Murder Case	March 9, 1998	Key animation
102	108	The Historical Actor Murder Case (Part 1)	May 25, 1998	Key animation
106	112	Scoop Picture Murder Case	June 22, 1998	Key animation
112	118	The Seven Mysteries of Teitan Elementary School Case	August 10, 1998	Key animation
116	122	The Mystery Writer Disappearance Case (Part 1)	September 7, 1998	Key animation
120	127	A Honey Cocktail Murder Case	October 19, 1998	Key animation
126	133	The Traveling Drama Troupe Murder Case (Part 1)	November 30, 1998	Key animation
132	142	Magic Lover's Murder Case (The Case)	January 25, 1999	Key animation
138	148	The Final Screening Murder Case (Part 1)	March 8, 1999	Key animation
143	153	The Suspicious Astronomical Observation	May 3, 1999	Key animation
149	159	The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case	June 21, 1999	Key animation
155	165	Underwater Key in the Locked Room Case	August 2, 1999	Key animation
160	170	The Legend of the Mysterious Five Storied Pagoda (Part 2)	September 13, 1999	Key animation
167	178	Tottori Spider Mansion Demon (The Suspicion)	November 8, 1999	Key animation
173	184	The Revival of the Dying Message (Part 2)	December 20, 1999	Key animation
179	193	The Coffee Shop Truck's Wild Entrance Case	February 7, 2000	Key animation
183	197	A Dangerous Recipe	March 6, 2000	Key animation
188	203	The Desperate Revival - The Cavern of the Detective Boys	May 1, 2000	Key animation
194	209	The Significant Music Box (Part 1)	June 12, 2000	Key animation
201	216	The Tenth Passenger (Part 1)	July 31, 2000	Key animation
207	222	The Deduction That Was Too Good	September 11, 2000	Key animation
215	231	The Bay of Revenge (Part 1)	November 27, 2000	Key animation
220	239	The Client Full of Lies (Part 1)	January 15, 2001	Key animation
225	244	The Secret of the High Sales	February 19, 2001	Key animation
233	252	The Evidence That Didn't Disappear (Part 1)	May 14, 2001	Key animation
237	256	The Nanki Shirahama Mystery Tour (Part 2)	June 11, 2001	Key animation	Mystery tour
243	262	Kogoro Mouri's Imposter (Part 1)	July 23, 2001	Key animation
248	267	The Alibi of the Soothing Forest	August 27, 2001	Key animation
253	272	Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 4 (Part 1)	October 15, 2001	Key animation
258	277	The Man from Chicago (Part 1)	November 19, 2001	Key animation
261	280	The Fearful Legend of the Snowy Night (Part 1)	December 10, 2001	Key animation
266	288	The Truth Behind Valentine's (The Case)	January 28, 2002	Key animation
269	291	The Forgotten Memento from the Crime (Part 1)	February 18, 2002	Key animation
271	293	The Secret Rushed Omission (Part 1)	March 11, 2002	Animation director
276	298	The Policeman's Missing Notebook Case	May 6, 2002	Animation director
281	303	The Small Eye-Witnesses	June 10, 2002	Animation director
287	309	Shinichi Kudo's New York Case (The Deduction)	July 22, 2002	Animation director
291	313	Solitary Island of the Princess and the Dragon King's Palace (The Case)	August 19, 2002	Key animation
293	315	Solitary Island of the Princess and the Dragon King's Palace (The Resolution)	September 2, 2002	Animation director
295	317	The Smash of Determination and Love (Part 2)	September 16, 2002	Key animation
299	321	The Kanmon Strait of Friendship and Murderous Intent (Part 1)	November 4, 2002	Animation director	Mystery tour
302	324	Parade of Malice and Saint (Part 2)	December 2, 2002	Animation director, Key animation
305	330	The Unseen Suspect (Part 1)	January 13, 2003	Key animation
309	334	Contact with the Black Organization (The Negotiation)	February 10, 2003	Animation director
314	339	The Scenic Lookout with the Broken Fence	March 17, 2003	Animation director
319	344	The Lucky Cigar Case (Part 2)	May 12, 2003	Animation director
324	349	Heiji Hattori's Desperate Situation! (Part 2)	June 16, 2003	Animation director
329	354	A Friendship That Can't Be Bought (Part 1)	July 28, 2003	Animation director
334	359	The Similar Princesses (Part 2)	September 1, 2003	Animation director
338	363	The Four Porsches (Part 1)	October 20, 2003	Key animation
342	367-368	The Bride of Huis ten Bosch	November 17, 2003	Animation director	1 hour
345	371-375	Head-to-Head Match with the Black Organization: A Dual Mystery on a Full Moon Night	January 5, 2004	Animation director	2.5 hours
353	383	The Fishing Tournament Tragedy (Part 2)	March 1, 2004	Animation director
360	391	A Mysterious Spring Beetle	May 17, 2004	Animation director
367	398	The Tragedy of the Pier in Plain Sight (Part 2)	July 12, 2004	Animation director, Key animation
370	401	Running Away in a Game	August 9, 2004	Animation director
380	411	The Case of the Furisode at the Hidden Hot Spring on a Snowy Night (Part 2)	November 29, 2004	Animation director
383	414-417	Miracle at Koshien Ball Park! The Defiants Face the Dark Demon	December 20, 2004	Assistant animation director	2 hours
389	423	Kogoro Gets Drunk in Satsuma (Part 2)	February 21, 2005	Animation director
396	431	Big Adventure in the Eccentric Mansion (The Resolution)	May 2, 2005	Animation director
401	435	A Jewel Thief Caught Red-Handed (Part 1)	June 6, 2005	Animation director
404	438	The Mysterious Angel's Mansion (Part 2)	June 27, 2005	Animation director, Key animation
408	442	Conan and Heiji's Deduction Magic (The Resolution)	August 1, 2005	Animation director
412	446	The Shinto Shrine Torii's Surprising Code (Part 2)	August 29, 2005	Animation director
416	450	The Evil Spirit Appears on An Unlucky Day (The Suspicion)	October 17, 2005	Animation director
425	459-463	Black Impact! The Moment the Black Organization Reaches Out	January 9, 2006	Assistant animation director	2.5 hours
432	470	Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 7 (Part 2)	February 27, 2006	Animation director
438	476	The Pursuit of the Fish E-mail	May 15, 2006	Key animation
442	480	The Man Obstructed by the Steel Frame	June 12, 2006	Key animation
447	485	The Sealed Western-Style Window (Part 2)	July 31, 2006	Key animation
449	487-488	Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story - Fake Wedding	August 21, 2006	Key animation	1 hour

Other notable works

Anime

• The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.: Animation Director, Key Animation
• Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma: Animation Director
• Golden Time: Animation Director, 2nd Key Animation, Key Animation
• Inazuma Eleven: Ares no Tenbin: Animation Director, Key Animation
• Mewkledreamy: Animation Director, Assistant Animation Director, Key Animation
• Naruto: Key Animation
• Pokémon: Key Animation
• Saint Tail: Key Animation
• Yu-Gi-Oh!: Key Animation

Movies

• Crayon Shin-chan: Arashi o Yobu Jungle: In-Between Animation (Kyoto Animation)
• Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Windmasters: In-Between Animation
• Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Winged Braves: In-Between Animation
• Doraemon the Movie: Nobita in the Robot Kingdom: In-Between Animation

See also

• Keiichi Ishida
• Sunshine Corporation

References

1. 川島明子 - Atwiki (Japanese)
2. 川島明子 - Allcinema (Japanese)
3. IMDb
4. Anime News Network