Nobuyuki Takeuchi

is a Japanese animator, director, character designer and production designer. His work with directors Akiyuki Shinbo (and more broadly studio Shaft) and Kunihiko Ikuhara have gained noteworthy fame since the late 1990s and especially through the mid-2000s.

Career Takeuchi was originally from sub-contracting animation studio Dragon Production, which he belonged to sometime during the mid-1980s. His tenure at the company was relatively short-lived as he transferred to Studio Lions, the in-between division to Studio Giants, soon thereafter; and eventually, he became a part of the larger Studio Giants entity. In the early 1990s, however, Takeuchi went freelance. Around 1994, he was offered a seat as a freelancer at Shaft and started to work on a number of their outsource works and eventually made his debut as an animation director on the studio's first original televised work, Juuni Senshi Bakuretsu Eto Ranger (1995).

In 1997, Takeuchi worked as the animation director for Shaft's outsourced episodes of Revolutionary Girl Utena directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara. Takeuchi's work on the series gained particular interest from Ikuhara, who invited him to work on the succeeding movie as an animation director. Also that year, Takeuchi participated as a character designer for Shaft's Sakura Diaries OVA series. Kaiketsu Zorori (#93) Tsutomu Shibayama Mitsuko Kase Ajia-doSunrise Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora Yukihiro Matsushita Group TAC Air Gear Hajime Kamegaki Toei Animation D.Gray-Man Osamu Nabeshima TMS Entertainment

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Maria Holic Alive Akiyuki ShinboTomokazu Tokoro Shaft Concept design Penguindrum Kunihiko Ikuhara Brain's Base Design assistance

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Hanamonogatari Akiyuki Shinbo Tomoyuki Itamura Shaft Production designer Tsukimonogatari Akiyuki Shinbo Tomoyuki Itamura Shaft Production designer 2015 Owarimonogatari Akiyuki Shinbo Tomoyuki Itamura Shaft Production designer 2018 Fate/Extra Last Encore Akiyuki Shinbo Yukihiro Miyamoto Shaft

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