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Aoyama Mitsuru (青山充)? is an animation director, animator and character designer affiliated with Toei Animation. He has worked on every season of the franchise thus far. He also worked on Ojamajo Doremi, Yume no Crayon Oukoku and many more.
History[]
After working for a few subcontract production companies, Aoyama became freelance and started working for Toei Animation. He made his debut as an animation director in 1983 with "Bemubemu Hunter Kotengumaru," and since then, he has usually been the animation director of at least one episode per anime where he is the sole person doing key animation. He debuted as a character designer in 1987 with the "Bikkuriman" series. He was a character designer again in 1993 for "Ghost Sweeper Mikami," an anime that aired in the same TV Asahi Sunday 8:30AM timeslot that Pretty Cure would eventually air in, working in some role for every anime in that slot from 1993 onwards.[1]
Work in Pretty Cure[]
*Assistant Director role
Aoyama is well-known for being the sole key animator for at least one episode in most seasons so far, drawing all the key frames. In the box above, any episodes with "♡" denotes such ones.
Trivia[]
- Healin' Good♥Pretty Cure and Delicious Party♡Pretty Cure are the only seasons without episodes where Aoyama was the sole key animator for.
References[]
- ↑ Kato, R. (2012). "Precure Syndrome! 25 People who gave birth to the soul of 'Pretty Cure 5,'" And Now, Pretty Cure All Stars DX, Gentosha, pg. 448.
- ↑ The February 2005 section from Otsuka Takashi's web diary. He was an assistant director on Pretty Cure at the time and also directed and storyboarded the first pair of eyecatches. The entry for February 3 is the most relevant (source is in Japanese).