Masahiro Mukai

is a Japanese anime director. In 2004, he joined Sunrise and worked on Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny. After leaving Sunrise, he was put in charge of directing Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Animation in 2013, and Trickster in 2017. Under the chief direction of Kenji Nagasaki, Mukai served as director for the anime adaptation of My Hero Academia from its fourth through sixth seasons.

Biography Mukai was a fan of the Gundam series in elementary school, which later inspired him to work in the anime industry. He later joined Sunrise and started working on Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny as a production assistant, which was the first series he worked on.

Works Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011) (episode director) Level E (2011) (episode director) Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Animation (2013) (director) Space Dandy (2014) (episode director) Terror in Resonance (2014) (episode director) Kamisama Kiss (2015) (episode director) Blood Blockade Battlefront (2015–2017) (episode director) Mob Psycho 100 (2019) (storyboard artist) My Hero Academia (2019–2023) (director)