Masayuki Hiraoka
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| Gender: | Male |
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| Date of birth: | November 6, 1959 |
| Place of birth: | Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan |
| Location: | Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, Japan |
| Position: | Animation director |
| Studio: | Studio Live |
| Years active: | 1984-2022 |
| Aliases: | マサユキ |
| Website: | Twitter Account Linkedin Account |
| Also known as Masayuki. | |
Masayuki Hiraoka (平岡 正幸 Hiraoka Masayuki), born November 6, 1959, is a Japanese animation director from Hyogo Prefecture. He only does animation director work in Detective Conan anime.
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Biography
Masayuki Hiraoka graduated from Osaka Designers' College (大阪デザイナー学院); after the graduation, he joined Studio Live (スタジオ・ライブ). Moreover, he himself disclosed that his pet dog is named "Momo" (モモ), a Pembroke Welsh Corgi.
In 1999, Hiraoka joined the production of the Detective Conan anime under the name of freelance animator, starting with the 1st part of Magic Lover's Murder Case, and began to serve as an animation director regularly within the production team. He was appointed to work on the episodes produced by Sunshine Corporation (even though not with the name of "production cooperation", the key animation group was of that firm). As a result, most of the frames drawn by the animators from the key animation group were quite magnificent, this was one of the factors that contributed to the great quality within the episodes he was responsible.
During his stint in the Detective Conan production team, he successfully conceived his own particular style, but has been rather controversial among the fandom - some fans were convinced that his style resembles those famed Detective Conan animators like Atsushi Aono, or even the original author Gosho Aoyama; yet others thought that the characters from his hands were too far off the anime character design.
In 2001, after finishing the animation correction work for The Secret of the High Sales, Hiraoka quit the production team (whereupon his position as a regular animation director was replaced by Takehiro Hamatsu). He was then back in the production team shortly from 2002 to 2003, and did animation direction for another two episodes, but this time being credited as Masayuki (マサユキ ). Evidently, his art style altered, and thus the peculiar "round faced" Conan was nowhere to be found, transforming to a more sharp one; Conan's pupil became absurdly huge as well. After that, he has not involved in Detective Conan until now.
Works in Detective Conan
Anime
Participation in: 19 cases (19 episodes)
| Jpn# | Int# | Episode title | Original broadcast | Role | Note |
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| 132 | 142 | Magic Lover's Murder Case (The Case) | January 25, 1999 | Animation director | |
| 138 | 148 | The Final Screening Murder Case (Part 1) | March 8, 1999 | Animation director | |
| 143 | 153 | The Suspicious Astronomical Observation | May 3, 1999 | Animation director | |
| 149 | 159 | The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case | June 21, 1999 | Animation director | |
| 155 | 165 | Underwater Key in the Locked Room Case | August 2, 1999 | Animation director | |
| 160 | 170 | The Legend of the Mysterious Five Storied Pagoda (Part 2) | September 13, 1999 | Animation director | |
| 167 | 178 | Tottori Spider Mansion Demon (The Suspicion) | November 8, 1999 | Animation director | |
| 173 | 184 | The Revival of the Dying Message (Part 2) | December 20, 1999 | Animation director | |
| 179 | 193 | The Coffee Shop Truck's Wild Entrance Case | February 7, 2000 | Animation director | |
| 183 | 197 | A Dangerous Recipe | March 6, 2000 | Animation director | |
| 188 | 203 | The Desperate Revival - The Cavern of the Detective Boys | May 1, 2000 | Animation director | |
| 194 | 209 | The Significant Music Box (Part 1) | June 12, 2000 | Animation director | |
| 201 | 216 | The Tenth Passenger (Part 1) | July 31, 2000 | Animation director | |
| 207 | 222 | The Deduction That Was Too Good | September 11, 2000 | Animation director | |
| 215 | 231 | The Bay of Revenge (Part 1) | November 27, 2000 | Animation director | |
| 220 | 239 | The Client Full of Lies (Part 1) | January 15, 2001 | Animation director | |
| 225 | 244 | The Secret of the High Sales | February 19, 2001 | Animation director | |
| 265 | 287 | Courtroom Confrontation: Kisaki vs. Kogoro (Part 2) | January 21, 2002 | Animation director | Credited as マサユキ |
| 315 | 340 | Place Exposed to the Sun | April 14, 2003 | Animation director | Credited as マサユキ |
Other notable works
Anime
- Ai to Yūki no Pig Girl Tonde Būrin: Animation director
- Brave Exkaiser: Character design
- Ceres, Celestial Legend: Animation director
- Dinosaur King: Character design
- Pokémon: Animation director
- Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer: In-between animation
