Masayuki Hiraoka

Masayuki Hiraoka
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Gender:	Male
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:	1981-2018
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.

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.

One of Hiraoka's style: miniscule characters' mouth.

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 (after that, 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 back then became more sharp; Conan's pupil became absurdly huge as well. After that, he has not involved in Detective Conan until now.

Works in Detective Conan

• See Animation directed by Masayuki Hiraoka

Anime

Participation in: 19 cases (19 episodes)

Jpn#	Int#	Episode title	Original broadcast	Role	Note
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

See also

• Takehiro Hamatsu

References

1. 平岡正幸 - Wikipedia (Japanese)
2. 平岡正幸 - Atwiki (Japanese)
3. Anime News Network