Hitoyuki Matsui

Hitoyuki Matsui (まつい ひとゆき, Matsui Hitoyuki, former name: 松井 仁之) is a Japanese anime director.

Works

Delico's Nursery
7.3

Delico's Nursery

Hailing from a prestigious noble house, Dali Delico is an elite member of the Blood Pact Council, the highest governing body of the Vamps. Yet, Dali flatly refuses a mission the Vamps assign him. As Dali’s motives and possible connection to mysterious murders begin to mount, council members Gerhard, Dino, and Henrique visit him in hopes he’ll reconsider, but find him soothing an infant child!

Release Date:2024-08-08

Department:Art

Job:Storyboard Artist

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:6

Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte
7.0

Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte

Endo and Kobayashi love to bicker about their latest video game fixation. They think they're simply providing color commentary, but one of the game's characters, Siegwald, can hear them talking about his fiancée, the villainess Lieselotte!

Release Date:2023-01-07

Department:Art

Job:Storyboard Artist

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:18

A Couple of Cuckoos
6.8

A Couple of Cuckoos

16-year-old super-studier Nagi Umino, second-year student at the Megurogawa Academy high school, was switched at birth. On his way to a dinner to meet his birth parents, he accidentally meets the brash, outspoken, Erika Amano, who is determined to make Nagi her fake boyfriend as she never wants to actually marry. But once Nagi makes it to dinner, he finds his parents have decided to resolve the hospital switch by conveniently having him marry the daughter his birth parents raised...who turns out to be none other than Erika herself!

Release Date:2022-04-24

Department:Art

Job:Storyboard Artist

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:50

Deaimon: Recipe for Happiness
7.2

Deaimon: Recipe for Happiness

Nagomu Irino returns to his Kyoto home for the first time in ten years when his father is hospitalized. Nagomu is eager to take over Ryokushou, the family's Japanese sweet shop, but he's instead asked to be a father figure to Itsuka Yukihira, the girl everyone calls the successor.

Release Date:2022-04-06

Department:Art

Job:Storyboard Artist

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:25

Baki Hanma
8.1

Baki Hanma

To gain the skills he needs to surpass his powerful father, Baki enters Arizona State Prison to take on the notorious inmate known as Mr. Unchained.

Release Date:2021-09-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:506

The Gymnastics Samurai
6.2

The Gymnastics Samurai

In the year 2002, the formerly powerful Japanese men's gymnastics team member Jotaro Aragaki is no longer able to compete. Even though he trained strenuously daily, he is asked about retiring by his coach Amakusa. However, a certain encounter alters Aragaki's fate.

Release Date:2020-10-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:16

TONIKAWA: Over the Moon for You
8.5

TONIKAWA: Over the Moon for You

Nasa Yuzaki falls in love at first sight after an encounter with the mysterious Tsukasa. When Nasa earnestly confesses his feelings, she replies, "I'll date you, but only if we're married." Nasa and Tsukasa's cute and precious newlywed life of love is about to begin!

Release Date:2020-10-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:1494

Puzzle & Dragons X

Puzzle & Dragons X

The story takes place in a fantasy world consisting of humans, Dragonoids and Monsters. There is a relative harmony between the three races. There are also Drops, spherical objects that come out of the planet, which can power up the Monsters. Humans and Dragonoids can take on the role of Dragon Callers if they have the capability to see the Drops, wherein, they form bonds with monsters. Currently, the planet is facing Drop Impacts, occurrences where a large amount of Drops are suddenly generated in a single area (and can also spread), which affects the lands and makes the Monsters berserk. In fact, one of the main duties of Dragon Callers is to settle the Drop Impacts by stabilizing the Drop distribution.

Release Date:2016-07-04

Department:Art

Job:Storyboard Artist

Episode Count:1

Absolute Duo
7.8

Absolute Duo

This is the story of Tooru Kokonoe who has enrolled at Kouryou Academy, a school which trains students in wielding Blaze, soul powered weapons to prepare them for the Dorn Agency's special peacekeeping corps. When Tooru is partnered with a mysterious girl: Julie Sigtuna, he finds he has to overcome many hurdles to ensure their teamwork and fighting skills are up to par for the duration of their training.

Release Date:2015-01-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:153

Beelzebub
8.3

Beelzebub

Violent delinquent Oga encounters a baby one day, which crawls onto his back and immediately forms an attachment to him. Though he doesn't know it yet, this baby is named Kaiser de Emperana Beelzebub IV, or "Baby Beel" for short—the son of the Demon Lord!

Release Date:2011-01-09

Department:Art

Job:Storyboard Artist

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:245

Absolute Justice Love Pheromone
5.0

Absolute Justice Love Pheromone

Yoshizumi Aimi and Sasajima Kaoruko are comic duo, Their dream is to become popular and stand on the Broadway stage.However, their names are not well-known, and they have to do part-time jobs.To make their names popular, they decided to do side job. It is heroines of justice, They will beat villains one after another, but after that, there is nothing but ruins. People are afraid of them and even rumor that they are evil.

Release Date:2005-07-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:1

Tristia of the Deep Blue Sea

An ocean city, Tristia. Tristia used to be prospering playing an important role of the maritime trade, and it was as beautiful as to be praised as "marine jewelry". However, that was a long time ago. The attack of the dragons deprived the city of their original brightness. The people in Tristia worked hard to reconstruct their city, but everything they did went wrong, and the city became desolated on the contrary. At the end of their hope, they asked a Great Artisan for the recovery of the city, Prospero Flanka. Prospero was a legendary inventor who had revived cities that otherwise would have been ruined. The long-awaited day came when the Great Artisan Prosper arrived in the city... However, it was only one girl who stood at the port of the city. Prospero sent his grand daughter, Nanoka, for him.

Release Date:2004-07-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Dokkoida!?
8.3

Dokkoida!?

Dokkoida?! is about a boy, Suzuo Sakurazaki, who is hired by a preteen space alien girl, Tanpopo, to try out an experimental new suit developed by the intergalactic toy company that she works for. Suzuo agrees to work for her since he is unemployed and needs the job to pay the rent. The suit gives him super powers, with which he fights bad guys and people from rival intergalactic toy companies and organizations

Release Date:2003-07-05

Department:Directing

Job:Series Director

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:3

Sakura Wars: Ecole de Paris
10.0

Sakura Wars: Ecole de Paris

An unseen evil lurks in the streets of Paris. Unless something is done, the darkness will unleash its destruction and consume all that is good. The City of Love will be lost to her people forever. All hope rests within the hearts of five young ladies. The only problem is, they don't even know it yet. But will an apprenticed nun, a reserved aristocrat, a hardened criminal, a traveling circus emcee and a Japanese girl experiencing loss set aside their unique differences and come together as one for the defense of many. The Paris Fighting Troup is born.

Release Date:2003-03-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:1

7.5

Sakura Wars: ~Su~Mi~Re~

For years the defence and safety of the Imperial city rested on the shoulders of Sumire Kanzaki of the Flower Troupe. But this, as with all things, must fade away. As the top star of the Imperial Operetta Company, Sumire was the power and the light from which her comrades drew their own strength and resolve. It was through her that the Flower Troupe found their courage... and through her that many happy memories were made. Now the curtain rises for one final performance as the star that once shined so brightly to grow faint. As the spotlight dims on one legend, another must come center stage.

Release Date:2002-12-18

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:2

Naruto
8.4

Naruto

Naruto Uzumaki, a mischievous adolescent ninja, struggles as he searches for recognition and dreams of becoming the Hokage, the village's leader and strongest ninja.

Release Date:2002-10-03

Department:Art

Job:Storyboard Artist

Episode Count:16

Vote Count:5613

Witch Hunter Robin
7.1

Witch Hunter Robin

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 Date:2002-07-03

Department:Art

Job:Storyboard Artist

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:32

Tokyo Underground
6.8

Tokyo Underground

Tokyo Underground is a manga series by Akinobu Uraka and published by Enix. It became an anime series, produced by Studio Pierrot and shown on the TV Tokyo Network from April 2 until September 24, 2002. The TV series was released on DVD by Geneon Entertainment in the US and Canada, released as a boxset by Manga Entertainment in the UK and by Tokyo Night Train in Australia. It also aired in Canada on the digital channel G4techTV Canada, starting on July 22, 2007 at 8:30 pm ET/PT.

Release Date:2002-04-02

Department:Art

Job:Storyboard Artist

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:4

Saiyuki
7.1

Saiyuki

Many years ago, humans and demons lived in harmony. But that unity ended when demons started attacking humans and plotted a mission to unleash Gyumao - an evil demon imprisoned for thousands of years. Now, Genjo Sanzo, a rogue priest, must team up with three demons - Sha Gojyo, Son Goku, and Cho Hakkai - and embark on a perilous journey to the west to stop these demons from resurrecting Gyumao and restore the balance between humans and demons on Earth.

Release Date:2000-04-04

Department:Art

Job:Storyboard Artist

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:13

Karakuri Zoushi Ayatsuri Sakon
8.2

Karakuri Zoushi Ayatsuri Sakon

The dark-haired bishounen is Sakon Tachibana, a puppeteer, and the other is Ukon, his favorite puppet and best friend. Sakon is the (only) grandson of Saemon Tachibana, a national treasure of Japan famous for his manipulation of Bunraku puppets. Ukon is a child doll puppet made in the early Meiji era by the famous female dollmaker Unosuke. Together they run into murders and solve them.

Release Date:1999-10-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:26

Vote Count:5

Devil Lady
7.5

Devil Lady

The beautiful and successful supermodel Jun Fudou meets a woman named Lan Asuka, who confronts her with a werewolf monster, which she calls a devil beast. As a result, unimagined powers awaken in Jun, and she manages to defeat the monster. She, just like this werewolf, is part of the next step in human evolution: humans who can mutate into beast-like monsters and then mercilessly terrorise civilisation. Unlike the other devil beasts, however, she can retain her humanity, which is her undoing because Lan Asuka is a high-ranking employee of the government and of the “Anti-Beast Special Squad”, which wants to abuse her powers and train her to mercilessly hunt down her own species. Caught between these extremes and her weak self, the question arises: what fate will Jun meet? Will she ever be able to decide it for herself?

Release Date:1998-10-10

Department:Art

Job:Storyboard Artist

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:120

Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight
7.6

Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight

Five years after the death of the Emperor of Marmo in the War of Heroes, Parn is now the Free Knight of Lodoss, he and his old allies now famous through the land. However, the Emperor's right-hand-man, Ashram, seeks the Scepter of Domination to re-unify Lodoss under his former leader's banner. Meanwhile, beyond his attempts at conquest lies a more sinister force beginning to set the stage for the resurrection of the goddess of death and destruction...

Release Date:1998-04-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:27

Vote Count:16

Virus Buster Serge
5.2

Virus Buster Serge

Neo Hong Kong, 2097: The world has changed. Advances in genetic engineering and cybernetics have created an environment full of artificially enhanced humans and intelligent super-computers that operate using biological software. But the same technology that has allowed man & machine to merge has made both susceptible to a new kind of threat - digital viruses capable of controlling their hosts. The last line of defense against this insidious foe is an elite task force known as STAND. Equipped with state-of-the-art armored cybernetic suits known as "variable gears," only this special law-enforcement arm can deal with virus-infected war machines on their own terms.

Release Date:1997-10-02

Department:Art

Job:Storyboard Artist

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:4

Apocalypse Zero
5.7

Apocalypse Zero

Kakugo and Harara are two siblings who have been trained to fight demons, monsters, and other creatures that are now roaming about in the post-apocalyptic 21st century. Along with their superior fighting techniques and specialized skills, they were also given special suits called Zero armor, which were made from the souls of dead warriors. Unfortunately Harara succumbs to evil within the Zero armor, and Kakugo is the only human alive that has the skills and equipment to defeat his sibling.

Release Date:1996-10-18

Department:Writing

Job:Storyboard

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:6

Battle Arena Toshinden
5.0

Battle Arena Toshinden

For one year, Master Swordsman Eiji Shinjo has been haunted by the memory of his battle with the renegade champion, Gaia - a battle that was cut short by the forces of the malevolent syndicate known as "the organization." Denied victory, Eiji left the tournament followed by his opponents mocking laughter. Worse still, Eiji walked away no closer to finding his long lost brother, Sho. But now, a mysterious warrior is hunting down the champions of the previous tournament and using their own moves against them - and it looks like that person may be Sho. Who is this powerful new foe and who is his next target? Eiji and Kayin, his closest friend and greatest rival, struggle to unravel the mystery before they, too, join the ranks of the defeated. The answer lies at the heart of the Organization and its plans for world domination. At last, the ultimate battle between the greatest fighters in the world will be decided. But if Eiji loses, his friends - Ellis - may Die...

Release Date:1996-06-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Ninku
8.0

Ninku

The story in Ninku is about an odd-looking 12-year-old named Fūsuke (Fūsuke of the wind) who is a powerful warrior from the Ninku school of martial arts, a style that mixes ninjutsu and karate. It is explained that before the present time in the story that those who could use Ninku were targeted by an evil empire and the Ninku corps were formed to combat the menace. The names of the corps were taken from the twelve Chinese zodiac animals (Eto) and each captain of the corps was called the zodiac animal Ninku master (Etonin). When the war was over, the Ninku were defeated and almost all of them were killed since they were useless and were also dangerous for the rulers. At the beginning of the story, three years later, Fūsuke, the young former captain of the 1st Ninku corps and controller of the wind and Hiroyuki, his flatulent penguin, start searching for the other Ninku captains...

Release Date:1995-01-14

Department:Art

Job:Storyboard Artist

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:1

Magic Knight Rayearth
8.5

Magic Knight Rayearth

Three young girls, Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu, are transported to a magical world called Cephiro during a field trip to Tokyo Tower. They are soon greeted by Master Mage Clef, who explains to them that they have been summoned to become the Legendary Magic Knights and save Cephiro. The girls are less than enthusiastic about this idea, and only want to return home. Clef further explains that they must seek out the three Rune Gods to help them fight. He bestows armor and magical powers to each of them. They learn from Clef that High Priest Zagato has kidnapped the Pillar of Cephiro, Princess Emeraude. The Pillar of Cephiro has the sole responsibility of keeping Cephiro alive and in balance with her prayers. Without Princess Emeraude, Cephiro would fall into ruin. Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu must fight off Zagato's henchman and find the Rune Gods if they ever want to get back home. They soon learn that friendship and loyalty are the only things they can rely on in the crumbling Cephiro.

Release Date:1994-10-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:189

Eternal Filena

Eternal Filena

Eternal Filena or Eien no Filena, is based on the fantasy light novel series by Shudou Takeshi, serialised in Japan in Animage and illustrated by Takada Akemi. Eternal Filena follows the adventures of Filena, a female slave and gladiator brought up as a boy in the ocean kingdom of Filosena, which is in the middle of a revival. Note: The series has been collected into nine volumes published by Tokuma Shoten. The novel series was also adapted into an RPG released by Tokuma Shoten for the Super Famicom in 1995. It was only released commercially in Japan.

Release Date:1992-12-21

Department:Art

Job:Storyboard Artist

Episode Count:1

Yu Yu Hakusho
8.5

Yu Yu Hakusho

One day, 14-year-old Yusuke Urameshi suddenly finds himself dead, having died pushing a child out of the way of oncoming traffic. Since he has such a bad personality, even the Spirit World was caught by surprise that he would sacrifice himself. Yusuke soon finds out he wasn't supposed to die and has a chance for resurrection and bringing his body back to life. After being resurrected, Yusuke becomes a Spirit Detective, along with his comrades, and one adventure after another happens, whether it be an investigation or a fighting tournament.

Release Date:1992-10-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:16

Vote Count:447

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