Yō Yoshinari

Yō Yoshinari, born May 6, 1971, is a Japanese key animator, storyboard artist and anime director. He is known for his exaggerated style of his effects animation, mainly for smoke and explosions. He is the concept creator for Little Witch Academia and has worked on other anime series such as Kill la Kill, Gurren Lagann, and Neon Genesis Evangelion. On the original short film Little Witch Academia, he served as director, character designer, animation director, and drew background roughs.

Personal life

Yō Yoshinari was born in Tokyo, Japan. He is the younger brother of Kou Yoshinari, who is also an key animator. Yoshinari graduated from Tokyo Designer Gakuin College and joined Madhouse in 1992. He left in the same year and joined Gainax, where he worked until 2011 when he joined Imaishi and other ex-Gainax employees to form Studio Trigger.

Other notable works

• Dead Leaves (key animator)
• Medabots (key animator)
• Gurren Lagann Parallel Works (director, animation director, storyboard artist, key animator, episode 8)
• Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt (concept art, animation director, key animation, episode 12B)
• Boukyaku no Senritsu (mechanical Design)
• Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (key animation, episodes 35, 39, 44, 51)
• Chou Kidou Densetsu DinaGiga (key animation, opening)

Sketches

Astro Boy sketches

Kill la Kill sketches

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Hannah and Barbara sketches

External links

Interviews

• Manga.Tokyo - TV Anime ‘Little Witch Academia’: Interview with Director Yoh Yoshinari by manga.tokyo January 2017

News

• Otaku News - An Interview with Little Witch Academia Creators By: Joe 2017 November 6th Monday [14:46]