Masaaki Yuasa

湯浅政明

Twitter An acclaimed anime director known for his wild, freeform style. After graduating from the Kyushu Sangyo University's Faculty of Arts in 1987 he joined studio Ajia-do, initially as in-betweener but rapidly moving to key animation. In the first part of his career Yuasa established himself as an idiosyncratic creator while working on several child friendly anime, such as Chibi Maruko-chan and Doraemon, but especially on Crayon Shin-chan, a project he was involved with for most of the '90s. One of his breakthrough roles in this period was his participation on the second part of The …