Hiroaki Ando

Hiroaki Ando (安藤 裕章) is a Japanese anime film and television director.

Works

6.0

Kaina of the Great Snow Sea: Star Sage

Kaina returns to the icy Canopy, unsure of what he should do next. He and Ririha have brought peace to Atland and Valghia through an alliance. Now supplies run low, and the people need answers. Kaina, Ririha, and their small party set out to cross the snow in search of the great orbital spire tree. This is the first step to saving their people. Join Kaina on an expedition to save mankind!

Release Date: 2023-10-13

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 6

Kaina of the Great Snow Sea
6.8

Kaina of the Great Snow Sea

In another world, an ever-growing Sea of Snow has engulfed the planet surface. The people struggle to survive living around the routes of a massive Orbital Tree, whose branches spread into the Celestial Membrane high above the ground. Change comes to this dying world after Kaina, a boy from the Celestial Membrane, encounters a girl from the surface called Ririha.

Release Date: 2023-01-12

Department: Directing

Job: Series Director

Episode Count: 11

Vote Count: 17

Jujutsu Kaisen
8.6

Jujutsu Kaisen

Yuji Itadori is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a classmate who has been attacked by curses, he eats the finger of Ryomen Sukuna, taking the curse into his own soul. From then on, he shares one body with Ryomen Sukuna. Guided by the most powerful of sorcerers, Satoru Gojo, Itadori is admitted to Tokyo Jujutsu High School, an organization that fights the curses... and thus begins the heroic tale of a boy who became a curse to exorcise a curse, a life from which he could never turn back.

Release Date: 2020-10-03

Department: Art

Job: Storyboard Artist

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3844

Listeners
7.2

Listeners

Set in a world where the concept of music ceases to exist. the story begins when a boy encounters Myuu, a mysterious girl who possesses an audio input jack in her body. The two intermingle with the history of rock music and embark on an unforgettable journey.

Release Date: 2020-04-04

Department: Directing

Job: Series Director

Episode Count: 12

Vote Count: 36

6.5

Godzilla: The Planet Eater

With no means for defeating Godzilla Earth, mankind watches as King Ghidorah, clad in a golden light, descends on the planet. The heavens and earth shake once again as the war moves to a higher dimension.

Release Date: 2018-11-09

Department: Art

Job: Storyboard Artist

Vote Count: 364

6.6

Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle

Humanity's desperate battle to reclaim the Earth from Godzilla continues. The key to defeating the King of the Monsters may be Mechagodzilla, a robotic weapon thought to have been lost nearly 20,000 years ago.

Release Date: 2018-05-18

Department: Art

Job: Storyboard Artist

Vote Count: 366

SATO ZERO

A U.S. Marine becomes fixated upon the risk of killing himself to find out if he is or isn't an Ajin.

Release Date: 2017-04-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Intermission

Four humorous short stories exploring the dark humor of the Ajin condition.

Release Date: 2016-10-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

8.1

Ajin: Demi-Human – Collide

For high schooler Kei—and for at least forty-six others—immortality comes as the nastiest surprise ever. Sadly for Kei, such a feat doesn't make him a superhero. In the eyes of both the general public and governments, he's a rare specimen who needs to be hunted down and handed over to scientists to be experimented on for life—a demi-human who must die a thousand deaths for the benefit of humanity.

Release Date: 2016-09-23

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 9

The Shinya Nakamura Incident

After dying in a motorcycle crash, Shinya Nakamura discovers he's an Ajin and is tracked by the ruthless Ajin Management Committee.

Release Date: 2016-05-06

Department: Directing

Job: Director

7.3

Ajin: Demi-Human – Confront

For high schooler Kei—and for at least forty-six others—immortality comes as the nastiest surprise ever. Sadly for Kei, such a feat doesn't make him a superhero. In the eyes of both the general public and governments, he's a rare specimen who needs to be hunted down and handed over to scientists to be experimented on for life—a demi-human who must die a thousand deaths for the benefit of humanity.

Release Date: 2016-05-06

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 15

Ajin
8.0

Ajin

17 years ago, immortals first appeared on the battlefields of Africa. Later, rare, unknown new immortal lifeforms began appearing among humans, and they became known as "Ajin" (demi-humans). Just before summer vacation, a Japanese high school student is instantly killed in a traffic accident on his way home from school. However, he is revived, and a price is placed on his head. Thus begins a boy's life on the run from all of humankind.

Release Date: 2016-01-16

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 317

7.1

Ajin: Demi-Human – Compel

For high schooler Kei—and for at least forty-six others—immortality comes as the nastiest surprise ever. Sadly for Kei, such a feat doesn't make him a superhero. In the eyes of both the general public and governments, he's a rare specimen who needs to be hunted down and handed over to scientists to be experimented on for life—a demi-human who must die a thousand deaths for the benefit of humanity.

Release Date: 2015-11-27

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 58

5.4

Knights of Sidonia: The Movie

The year is 3394. The solar system has been long destroyed by a strange alien race called Gauna. Now humans are barely maintaining population in their seed ships - the ones they also used to escape a thousand years ago. After several years of drifting though space, Sidonia, a seed ship with a population of over 500,000 people, is once again threatened by Gauna. Follow Tanikaze Nagate, a mysterious young man from the deep corners of the ship, and his friends as they try to strike back against these gigantic creatures and at the same time learn what they really are for the sake of humanity's survival. -MAL

Release Date: 2015-03-06

Department: Directing

Job: Second Unit Director

Vote Count: 8

Knights of Sidonia
7.8

Knights of Sidonia

An alien race called Gauna has destroyed Earth. leaving humanity struggling to survive aboard the spaceship Sidonia. Even though it’s been a century since the last encounter with the Gauna, military service is mandatory. For Nagate Tanikaze, whose grandfather secretly hid him in the forgotten bowels of Sidonia, it’s a strange new world as he’s forced to come to the surface. Yet his recruitment comes just in time, for the Gauna have suddenly reappeared.

Release Date: 2014-04-11

Department: Writing

Job: Storyboard

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 121

SHORT PEACE

SHORT PEACE

Release Date: 2013-07-30

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

6.5

GAMBO

A battle between a creature who’s been killing members of a royal Japanese family, and a mysterious white bear who protects them.

Release Date: 2013-07-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2

6.5

Short Peace

A traveler is confronted by spirits in an abandoned shrine; a story of honor and firefighting in ancient Japan; a white bear defends the royal family from a monstrous red demon; ragtag soldiers battle a robotic force in futuristic Japan.

Release Date: 2013-07-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 66

6.5

Five Numbers!

In an isolated prison, there are only four prisoners and a cat. One day, a power outage opens all the locks and all of the prisoners are released. However, all of the guards are nowhere to be seen and there are no exits. An extraordinary event occurs in response to an old man's strange behavior.

Release Date: 2011-04-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 4

7.4

Tekkonkinkreet

Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. When a megacorporation threatens to tear down the town to build an amusement park, Black and White engage in the fight of their life.

Release Date: 2006-10-21

Department: Art

Job: Storyboard Artist

Vote Count: 375

7.3

Digital Juice

A series of short animations that show different worlds and different characters. These episodes are designed to take the viewer into a psychological world of fantasy and mystery.

Release Date: 2002-01-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 3

4.0

Extra

Originally a music video for the song Extra by Ken Ishii, but it was later adapted into a 20 minute OVA. Depicts an extremely violent future world where humans and robot-aliens brutally kill each other.

Release Date: 1996-01-01

Department: Visual Effects

Job: CGI Director

Vote Count: 1

7.5

Memories

In this anime anthology, a salvage ship crew happens upon a haunted vessel in "Magnetic Rose"; a cold tablet turns a lab worker into a biological weapon in "Stink Bomb"; and an urban populace carries on an endless war with an unseen foe in "Cannon Fodder."

Release Date: 1995-12-23

Department: Visual Effects

Job: CGI Director

Vote Count: 473

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