Hatsuki Tsuji

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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)