Mitsue Yamazaki

is a Japanese anime director. After joining the anime industry, she worked as a production assistant and episode director. She co-created and directed the 2025 television series Zenshu. She has also directed series such as Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East, Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun (2014), Magic-kyun! Renaissance (2016), Tada Never Falls in Love (2018), How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? (2019), Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle (2020), and Though I Am an Inept Villainess (2026–present).

Life and career Mitsue Yamazaki became interested in working in the anime industry after seeing Cowboy Bebop and Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer while job hunting. She joined Madhouse, Inc. as a production manager after passing a test on in-between animation.

Yamazaki originally worked as an episode director for several anime series, including Bleach, Durarara!!, Itazura na Kiss, Penguindrum, and Rozen Maiden. She later continued working as a series director afterwards, namely for How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? (2019) and Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle (2020). She named the series after zenshu (全修), a Japanese word which means "full retake", due to its nature as a term that "makes people in the industry shudder". She is director for the 2026 Though I Am an Inept Villainess anime. Writing for Anime Feminist, Tony Sun Prickett described her as "one of the most consistently brilliant female directors working in the industry".

Filmography Year Title Credits Ref. 2013 Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East Series director 2014 Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun Series director 2016 Magic-kyun! Renaissance Series director 2019 How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? Series director, sound director 2020 Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle Series director 2025 Zenshu Series director, creator