Nobuyuki Iwai

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Nobuyuki Iwai

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Nobuyuki Iwai (岩井 伸之 Iwai Nobuyuki?) is a Japanese anime director. He is best known for his work in Detective Conan. Along with Masatomo Sudo, he works as character designer for Detective Conan from episode 804 to 870.

Works in Detective Conan

Iwai's first participation in the Detective Conan anime was in 2007, the 2nd part of Whereabouts of the Dark Photograph. After four episodes working as a key animator, Iwai began to work as an animation director in the following year, starting with Clash of Red and Black, Disturbance. His drawing quality increased significantly after roughly eight years being an animation director, therefore, he got promoted to character design, working along with Masatomo Sudo from episodes 804 to 870. Meanwhile, he was also the chief animation director of Memories from Sakura Class, he stepped down from character design after that.

In 2019, Iwai served as animation director of the prominent series The Scarlet School Trip. At the end of 2019, he worked with Masatomo Sudo and Seiji Muta as animation supervisors, starting with The Radio Questions and Concerns Show. However, this was not the first time he was the animation supervisor, his first supervisor role could be dated back to 2012, in episode Chase the Miyama Stag Beetle. Incidentally, he also did animation director for the 1000 special remastered The Moonlight Sonata Murder, and worked along with Keiko Sasaki and Akio Kawamura.

Iwai also participated in the production of Detective Conan movies. For example, he served as assistant animation director in 2011, and stepped up to animation director in 2016, until present.

Other notable works

Anime

  • ATASHIn'CHI: In-Between Animation
  • Bleach: Animation Director, Key Animation
  • Buddha: The Great Departure: Key Animation
  • Demashitaa! Powerpuff Girls Z: Key Animation
  • Hanasaku Iroha - Blossoms for Tomorrow: Key Animation
  • Hayate the Combat Butler!!: Key Animation
  • Mirmo Zibang!: In-Between Animation
  • Occult Academy: Key Animation
  • Romeo x Juliet: In-Between Animation

Movies

See also

References

  1. Instagram Account (Japanese)
  2. Anime News Network
  3. aniDB
  4. IMDb
  5. 岩井伸之 - Atwiki (Japanese)