Hidenori Matsubara

Hidenori Matsubara (松原秀典, Matsubara Hidenori, born in November, 1965) is a Japanese animator, anime character designer and an illustrator.

Biography

In 1988, Matsubara joined Gainax. In 1996, after finishing the Neon Genesis Evangelion series, he left Gainax and worked as a freelancer for various TV series and OVAs such as Oh My Goddess! (Anime), Sakura Wars (Anime) and The Princess and the Pilot (Anime). In 2006, Hideaki Anno and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto asked Matsubara to join Khara and he has been working there since then.

Selected Works

Television productions

• Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Animation Director (ep5), 1991
• Neon Genesis Evangelion - Key Animation (ep8, 26), 1996
• Sakura Wars (TV), Character Design, 2000^[1]
• Oh My Goddess! (TV) - Character Design, Chief Animation Director, 2005
• Oh My Goddess! (TV 2nd season) - Character Design, Chief Animation Director, 2006
• Space Battleship Yamato 2199 - Animation Director, 2013

Films

• Patlabor: The Movie - Key Animator, 1989
• Silent Mobius 2 (film) - Animation Director, 1992
• Oh My Goddess! (film) - Character Design, Chief Animation Director, Storyboard, 2000
• Sakura Wars (film), Character Design, 2001
• Steamboy - Key Animation, 2004
• Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone - Chief Animation Director, Key Animation , 2007
• Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance - Chief Animation Director, Key Animation, 2009
• Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo - Key Animation, 2012
• In This Corner of the World (この世界の片隅に) - Character Design, Chief Animation Director, 2016

OVA

• Oh My Goddess! (OVA) - Character Design, Chief Animation Director, 1994
• Elementalors - Character Design, 1995
• Sakura Wars (OVAs) - Character Design, 1997-2007

References

External links

• Hidenori Matsubara at the Internet Movie Database
• Hidenori Matsubara at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Hidenori Matsubara on Twitter