Hiroshi Hamasaki

Hiroshi Hamasaki 浜崎 博嗣 Hiroshi Hamasaki born December 30 1959 is an animator character designer and anime director from Fukuoka Japan After finishing high school he joined the training program of Tatsunoko Production where he began his career as an animator His early work included animation duties on Gatchaman II and several other series from the early 1980s By the mid1980s he had moved into higherlevel roles such as animation director and character designer on titles like Alpen Rose and Outlanders He later left Tatsunoko and worked mainly with Madhouse contributing animation to many of the studios productions From the 1990s onward he expanded into storyboarding and direction His directorial debut came in 2003 with Texhnolyze followed by directing or supervising roles on Paranoia Agent BECK Shigurui SteinsGate Terra Formars Orange and Blade of the Immortal Throughout his career he has alternated between animation storyboarding and directing across TV film and OVA projects establishing himself as a versatile figure in the anime industry