Ayu Imoto

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Ayu Imoto

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Gender: Female
Date of birth: unknown
Place of birth: Japan
Location: Japan

Ayu Imoto (井元 愛夕 Imoto Ayu?) is a Japanese animator. She does key animation and animation direction for Detective Conan anime and movies.

Works in Detective Conan

Ayu was initially from Studio Mu. She joined the anime production in 2006, starting with the 1st part of The Sealed Western-Style Window, in which she did the in-between animation. The following year, she was promoted to key animator, and continued working in the series for seven years. Then, in 2014, she was shortly promoted to assistant animation director for the 2nd part of Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 9. After that, her work in the Detective Conan anime was an interlace between key animation and animation director, as well as assistant animation director.

Regarding her key animation work, from 2011 to 2013, she was mainly active in Kenichi Otomo's key animation group; from 2014 to 2016, she was mainly active in Nobuyuki Iwai's key animation group; from 2018 to 2020, she was mainly active in Asuka Tsubuki's key animation group.

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Participation in: 14 movies

Participation in: 1 OVA

Participation in: 3 specials

Other notable works

Anime

  • High School DxD: Key Animation
  • Guin Sâga: Key Animation
  • Gakuen mokushiroku: HIGHSCHOOL OF THE DEAD: Key Animation
  • Fairy Tail: Fearî Teiru: Key Animation
  • One Punch Man: Wanpanman: Key Animation

References

  1. Page partially or completely translated from the Chinese version of July 8th, 2023.
  2. AniList
  3. IMDb
  4. Anime News Network
  5. 井元愛夕 - Atwiki (Japanese)