Tatsuyuki Nagai is a Japanese anime storyboard artist and director. He made his full directorial debut in 2006 with Honey and Clover II, after which he had directed 2007's Idolmaster: Xenoglossia, 2008's Toradora!, 2009's A Certain Scientific Railgun, 2011's Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, 2012's Waiting in the Summer and 2013's A Certain Scientific Railgun S.
The size of the Japanese animation market was 2,426 billion yen by 2020. More than half of that amount came from overseas sales. The manga market is also expanding, reaching 675.9 billion yen in 2021. Those unique visuals and stories from Japan have struck a chord with fans around the world and are growing into a huge industry. ANIME MANGA EXPLOSION will actively feature major works that are highly recognized by overseas fans and reveal the secrets of Japanese anime and manga creation through the series.
Release Date2023-04-30
Charactersd Self - Director
Episode Count1
When a 34-year-old underachiever gets run over by a truck, his story doesn't end there. Reincarnated in a new world as an infant, Rudy will seize every opportunity to live the life he's always wanted. Armed with new friends, some freshly acquired magical abilities, and the courage to do the things he's always dreamed of, he's embarking on an epic adventure—with all of his past experience intact!
Release Date2021-01-11
DepartmentArt
JobStoryboard Artist
Episode Count2
Vote Count1495
A spy, an assassin and a telepath come together to pose as a family, each for their own reasons, while hiding their true identities from each other.
Release Date2022-04-09
DepartmentArt
JobStoryboard Artist
Episode Count2
Vote Count2277
Misaka's electro-manipulation skills - and her delightfully destructive railgun projectile movement - make her a rock star in Academy City. The techno-metropolis is filled with supernaturally powerful students known as Espers, including Misaka's flirtatious friend and roommate, Shirai Kuroko. She uses her teleportation skills as a member of the Judgment law enforcement team, fighting crime alongside fellow agent Uiharu. Joined by their friend Saten, a spunky Level 0 Esper, Misaka, Kuroko, and Uiharu have a blast taking on danger whenever and wherever it arises.
Release Date2009-10-02
DepartmentArt
JobStoryboard Artist
Episode Count2
Vote Count129
The distant future: Humanity established the mobile fort city, Plantation, upon the ruined wasteland. Within the city were pilot quarters, Mistilteinn, otherwise known as the “Birdcage.” That is where the children live... Their only mission in life was the fight. Their enemies are the mysterious giant organisms known as Kyoryu. The children operate robots known as FRANXX in order to face these still unseen enemies. Among them was a boy who was once called a child prodigy: Code number 016, Hiro. One day, a mysterious girl called Zero Two appears in front of Hiro. “I’ve found you, my Darling.”
Release Date2018-01-13
DepartmentArt
JobStoryboard Artist
Episode Count2
Vote Count1911
Ginko, a Mushi master, travels from place to place researching the Mushi and helping people who are suffering because of it.
Release Date2005-10-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count240
It’s Komichi Akebi’s first year of junior high and she has her heart set on one thing: Robai Private Academy’s sailor uniform. As the next chapter of her life gets closer, she dreams of all the exciting new experiences she’ll get to have—school lunches, classes, club activities, and of course, making lots of friends! With her favorite outfit on, Komichi feels ready for anything.
Release Date2022-01-09
DepartmentArt
JobStoryboard Artist
Episode Count1
Vote Count52
Menacing in appearance but gentle at heart, second year high school student Ryuuji forms an unlikely friendship with classmate Taiga, a tiny girl with a sharp tongue and a tough attitude.
Release Date2008-10-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count668
Schoolgirls discover that they have been given the ability to materialize weapons and control robotic beasts called "Children" to stop an evil organization from their plans of domination.
Release Date2004-09-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count42
Tokyo is abuzz with persocoms – humanoid computers that are virtually perfect. The socially and technologically inept Hideki is dying to get his hands on one. When he finds Chii abandoned in the trash, she’s cuter than any current model he’s ever seen before. But when he gets her home and turns her on, she has no data and only a single learning program installed. While Hideki puts his whole heart into teaching Chii the ins and outs of humanity, a mystery unfolds as a dark secret within her awakens.
Release Date2002-04-02
DepartmentArt
JobStoryboard Artist
Episode Count1
Vote Count242
Jinta Yadomi and his group of childhood friends have become estranged after a tragic accident split them apart. Now in their high school years, a sudden surprise forces each of them to confront their guilt over what happened that day and come to terms with the ghosts of their past.
Release Date2011-04-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobSeries Director
Episode Count11
Vote Count448
Solomon fights the harmful use of witchcraft using a database of witches, which includes those who have obtained the power of witchcraft through genetics and others who carry the gene in order to arrest or eliminate them should their powers "awaken". The series focuses on one STN-J member, Robin Sena.
Release Date2002-07-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count44
Yuuta Takemoto, Takumi Mayama, and Shinobu Morita are college students who share the small apartment. Even though they live in poverty, the three of them are able to obtain pleasure through small things in life. The story follows these characters' life stories as poor college students, as well as their love lives when a short but talented 18 year old girl called Hagumi Hanamoto appears.
Release Date2005-04-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count43
On a terraformed post-disaster Mars, a group of child security agents rebel against the adults who betrayed them and the oppressive Earth government.
Release Date2015-10-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobSeries Director
Episode Count50
Vote Count68
107 years ago, the Moon was destroyed in a massive cataclysm that shattered Earth's former satellite into 81 quintillion tons of orbital debris. However, thanks to super-science, the Earth itself was saved and today no one really thinks much about that century-past disaster. Which is why when teenage Haruka Amami auditions for something called the Idolmaster Project, she THINKS she's trying out to be a singing idol. Instead, Haruka finds herself at a secret school run by the Mondenkind Agency, living with a group of other girls who have also been selected as candidates to pilot an iDOL - an advanced robot specifically designed to intercept falling chunks of moon rock. Except, the people who run the Mondenkind Agency aren't exactly knights in shining armor. And then there's the question of whether the iDOLs are really JUST robots. Because from almost the first moment, Haruka starts to feel emotions resonating from within the iDOL called Imber.
Release Date2007-04-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobSeries Director
Episode Count26
Vote Count12
Fleeing the war, the immortal Machia, graced with eternal youth, finds a baby abandoned in the forest and decides to raise it as her own child, sparking a moving story between a mortal and a being who does not age.
Release Date2018-02-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobSecond Unit Director
Vote Count709
Fumi Manjoume enters Kamakura's accelerated high school - Matsuoka All-Girls High School. While waiting at the Kamakura station on the day of her entrance ceremony, she runs into an old childhood friend whom she had not seen in 10 years: Akira Okudaira. As their friendship is rekindled and they start falling back into the rhythm of friends again, it starts a delicate love story...
Release Date2009-07-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count31
Ryuushi Shiratori is a young artist-in-training, about to start studying at a vocational school. Arriving at his new lodgings he finds himself the focus of attention for the collection of weirdos that inhabit the place. He also meets and falls for the landlady, Kozue Aoba, who seems to be both lovely and charming. However, Kozue is not what she seems to be... in fact, she's more.
Release Date2005-01-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Episode Count26
Vote Count4
While testing out his camera on a bridge one summer night, Kaito sees a blue light streaking across the sky, only to be blown off the railing seconds later. Just before succumbing to unconsciousness, a hand reaches down to grab ahold of his own. He woke up the next morning wondering how he ended up back in his own room with no injuries or any recollection of the night before. As he proceeds with his normal school life, Kaito and his friends discuss what to do with his camera, finally deciding to make a film with it over the summer break. Noticing that Kaito has an interest in the new upperclassmen Ichika Takatsuki, his friend Tetsurou decides to invite her, as well as her friend Remon Yamano, to join them in their project. In what becomes one of the most entertaining and exciting summers of their lives, Kaito and his friends find that their time spent together is not just about creating a film, but something much more meaningful that will force them to confront their true feelings.
Release Date2012-01-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobSeries Director
Episode Count12
Vote Count57
High school student Aoi Aioi lives with her elder sister, Akane, after a tragic accident took their parents away 13 years ago. Because Akane has since been taking care of her single-handedly, Aoi wants to move to Tokyo after her graduation to relieve her sister's burden and pursue a musical career, inspired by Akane's ex-boyfriend Shinnosuke "Shinno" Kanamuro. Shinno was part of a band until he left for Tokyo to become a professional guitarist after the sisters' parents passed away, and he was never to be seen again.
Release Date2019-10-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobSecond Unit Director
Vote Count168
A year has passed since Menma's ghostly return to the Super Peace Busters. Although the time they spent together during that summer was short, the five members reminisce about what happened as they each write a letter to their lost friend.
Release Date2013-08-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count195
A young girl had her voice magically taken away so that she would never hurt people with it, but her outlook changes when she encounters music and friendship. Will Naruse be able to convey the anthem of her heart?
Release Date2015-09-19
DepartmentVisual Effects
JobKey Animation
Vote Count432
Childhood friends find a creature with mysterious powers that pushes them to discover the bonds that tie the three students together.
Release Date2024-10-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
Cosplay Complex is a comedy anime original video animation that is centered around the after school cosplay club at East Oizumi Academy. The girls in the club practice so that they may one day be able to compete in cosplay competitions.
Release Date2002-05-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count6
Friends grow apart after a tragic accident claims one of their number. Years later, the dead girl appears to them to ask for their help in crossing over to the afterlife.
Release Date2015-09-21
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count24
A new animated short celebrating the 10th anniversary of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, shown alongside the upcoming Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans Urðr Hunt Path of the Little Challenger
Release Date2025-10-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
An animated spinoff from the Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, this feature length film compiles the ONA footage from the "Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans – Urðr Hunt" mobile game.
Release Date2025-10-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
An event held in Chichibu Muse Park in September 2011 celebrating TV anime "Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day".
Release Date2011-09-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Fire-safety PSA short based off of the Super Mario Bros. series.
Release Date1989-08-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Continuing after the Level Upper incident, a phenomenon known as "Someone's Watching" begins to torment Misaka, making her feel like the electricity in her body is flowing backwards. With the help of her friends, Misaka fights against the unknown enemy.
Release Date2010-10-29
DepartmentWriting
JobStoryboard
Vote Count1
