Midori Yoshizawa

is a Japanese animator, storyboard artist, and director.

Career Yoshizawa studied at Tama Art University before getting her first job in the anime industry as an animator at Studio Luna around 2012. She worked at the studio for a year or two and then joined Toei Animation as an apprentice director working on One Piece. Around 2014, she left Toei and began freelancing for Shaft. Initially, she took on animation and assistant episode direction roles like her previous jobs but was being given episode direction duties across all of the studio's productions by 2015. The depiction in the 9th episode of the series, in which an AI gradually becomes more human, was broadly influenced by Yoshizawa herself. For the second and third seasons of the work, Miyamoto was promoted to series director under Doroinu, and Yoshizawa was promoted to assistant director. In the second episode of the second season, both Yoshizawa and Miyamoto were in charge of storyboarding the episode; but rather than splitting the content between the A and B-parts of the episode (the first and second halves), they split the content based on what they felt like depicting, such as Miyamoto taking charge of the action sequences.

Following the end of production on Magia Record, Yoshizawa took a break from directing duties and only contributed storyboards through 2022 and 2023, with the exception of supervising animator and first-time director Hiroto Nagata's opening for The Quintessential Quintuplets~. As Yoshizawa had directed the eleventh episode of the first season outsourced to Shaft in 2019, animation producer Yuuya Matsukawa appointed Yoshizawa to storyboard the second episode of the special; replacing prior series director Tomoyuki Itamura. Shinbo relied on Yoshizawa for her art design sensibilities and instilled changes to the series from her predecessors. Although her directing debut, Yoshizawa said that because it was the first Monogatari series in several years, she didn't consciously direct the series especially .

Works Teleivison series In "Director(s)" column highlights Yoshizawa's directorial works.