Hiroki Yamamura

is a Japanese animator, character designer and storyboard artist.

Career Yamamura is from Anjō, Aichi Prefecture, and graduated from . Initially, he joined eroge game company Studio Lux as an illustrator around 2002 and used the name , a play on the Hiragana spelling of his name , but left the company in August 2003. After leaving Studio Lux, Yamamura joined Actas briefly before joining newly founded animation production company Studio Pastoral, where he initially did in-between animation and was quickly promoted to key animator in less than a year, and again to animation director by 2005.

While Studio Pastoral itself was a sub-contracting animation firm not producing its own titles, from the very beginning of the studio's history it developed a close relationship to studio Shaft. Yamamura worked on a number of different titles from a number of different studios that were outsourcing work to Studio Pastoral, but he gained prominence within Shaft's works and mainly took on jobs for the studio. In 2007, he was given his first job as a chief animation director on Shaft's adaptation of Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, with characters designed by Hideyuki Morioka and doing work for a studio neither belonged to (at the time), Morioka and Yamamura have worked together on numerous occasions since Sayonara, Zetsubou Sensei including all of the series' sequels, However, for several years, Oishi worked on the project and Shinbo invested in Tomoyuki Itamura to continue with other parts of the series, which Yamamura occasionally participated in alongside other series. Eventually, production on the films started with Hideyuki Morioka taking on duties as chief animation director (and character designer, co-credited with Watanabe); and around the spring of 2014, Yamamura joined as the second chief animation director. Eventually, the project was announced to be a film trilogy that premiered in 2016 and 2017. For the first film, Morioka and Yamamura split their duties as animation directors somewhat evenly, with Morioka working on the first half of the film and Yamamura on the second half, or split scene-by-scene. Hidamari Sketch Akiyuki ShinboRyouki Kamitsubo Shaft 2008 Zoku Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei Akiyuki ShinboYukihiro Miyamoto Shaft

Maria Holic Akiyuki ShinboYukihiro Miyamoto Shaft Assistant animation director Zan Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei Akiyuki ShinboYukihiro Miyamoto Shaft Bakemonogatari Akiyuki ShinboTatsuya Oishi Shaft Assistant animation director Natsu no Arashi! Akinai-chuu Akiyuki ShinboKenichi Ishikura (8–13) Shaft Assistant animation director

And Yet the Town Moves Akiyuki Shinbo Shaft Arakawa Under the Bridge Akiyuki ShinboYukihiro Miyamoto Shaft Hidamari Sketch x Hoshimittsu Akiyuki ShinboKenichi Ishikura Shaft Storyboard artistAssistant animation director

Maria Holic Alive Akiyuki ShinboTomokazu Tokoro Shaft Guilty Crown Tetsurō Araki Production I.G Hidamari Sketch x SP Akiyuki Shinbo Shaft Assistant animation director

Nisemonogatari Akiyuki ShinboTomoyuki Itamura Shaft Assistant animation director Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb Akiyuki ShinboYuki Yase Shaft Nekomonogatari: Black Akiyuki ShinboTomoyuki Itamura Shaft

Sasami-san@Ganbaranai Akiyuki Shinbo Shaft Assistant animation director Monogatari Series Second Season Akiyuki ShinboTomoyuki ItamuraNaoyuki TatsuwaYuki Yase Shaft 2014 Mekakucity Actors Akiyuki ShinboYuki Yase Shaft Assistant chief animation directorAssistant animation director 2018 Fate/Extra: Last Encore Akiyuki ShinboYukihiro Miyamoto Shaft Back sponsor screen illustrations 2019 The Quintessential Quintuplets Satoshi Kuwabara Tezuka Productions 2020 Magia Record DoroinuYukihiro MiyamotoKenjirou OkadaMidori Yoshizawa Shaft Uncredited storyboard copy artist

Pretty Boy Detective Club Akiyuki ShinboHajime Ootani Shaft Uncredited 2nd key animator Magia Record: The Eve of Awakening DoroinuYukihiro Miyamoto Shaft

Magia Record: Dawn of a Shallow Dream DoroinuYukihiro Miyamoto Shaft RWBY: Ice Queendom Toshimasa SuzukiKenjirou Okada Shaft Luminous Witches Shouji Saeki Shaft Assistant animation directorUncredited 2nd key animator

Onimai Shingo Fujii Studio Bind Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead Kazuki Kawagoe Bug Films The Quintessential Quintuplets~ Yukihiro Miyamoto Shaft 2025 A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof Yukihiro Miyamoto Shaft Avant storyboard artist

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