Toshiki Hirano
Japanese anime director, animator and character designer
Toshiki Hirano (平野 俊貴, Hirano Toshiki; born Toshihiro Hirano (平野 俊弘, Hirano Toshihiro), born October 3, 1956, in Tokyo) is a Japanese anime director, animator, and character designer. His wife is a fellow animator and manga artist Narumi Kakinouchi. Some of his works have appeared in the adult manga magazine Lemon People. He is representative of Toshiki Hirano Office Ltd.
Career
While still a student at Tokyo Designer Gakuin College, Hirano began drawing in-betweens for Toei Doga. After working at Studio No.1, Bebo led by Tomonori Kogawa, Studio. Led by himself, Artland led by Noboru Ishiguro, and AIC led by Tōru Miura, he is now the representative of Toshiki Hirano Office Ltd.
In 1982, while working at Artland, Hirano worked as a character animation director on the TV animation series Super Dimension Fortress Macross, which was well received for the female characters' charm and attracted attention from anime fans. Following the theatrical animation Macross: Do You Remember Love? released in 1984, he was selected as a character designer for the OVA Megazone 23 produced by Artland in 1985.
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