Takashi Yamamoto

Takashi Yamamoto
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Gender:	Male
Date of birth:	unknown
Place of birth:	Japan
Location:	Nagano, Japan
Nicknames:	山本深雪 山本みや 山本美也 山本深幸 山本郷 やまもとたかし

Takashi Yamamoto (山本 天志 ,Yamamoto Takashi) is a Japanese animator. He does key animation and animation director in Detective Conan anime and movies. He has quite a lot of alias, such as Sato Yamamoto (山本 郷 ,Yamamoto Sato). His hobbies are cars and horse racing.

Works in Detective Conan

• See Animation directed by Takashi Yamamoto

Yamamoto was from Kino Production (きのプロダクション). He had worked in Studio Sakaboya (スタジオ坂坊や) and Tsuburaya Productions (円谷プロダクション) for some time. These days, he mainly works for moe anime.

Yamamoto joined the production of the Detective Conan anime in 2003, starting with the 1st part of The Red Horse within the Flames, he did key animation for that episode. Afterwards he served as animation director for four episodes and quit the production team the following year.

Movies

Participation in: 1 movie

• The Time-Bombed Skyscraper (Movie 1): Key animation

Other notable works

Anime

• A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives: Director, Storyboard, Episode Director, Eyecatch, Preview Director, Preview Storyboard
• Air Master: Animation Director (Credited as "山本郷")
• H2O ~Footprints in the Sand~: Storyboard, Episode Director
• Jewelpet Twinkle: Director, Storyboard, Episode Director
• Late Night! The Genius Bakabon: Storyboard, Unit Director, Assistant Director
• Pokémon: Animation Director, Key Animation
• Red Baron: Animation Director, Mechanical design, Mecha design, Key Animation

Movies

• Lupin III: Dead or Alive: Key Animation
• Soreike! Anpanman: Kirakiraboshi no namida: Key Animation

References

1. Twitter Account (Japanese)
2. 山本天志 - Wikipedia (Japanese)
3. 山本天志 - Atwiki (Japanese)
4. Anime News Network