About Toshifumi Akai
Toshifumi Akai (赤井 俊文, Akai Toshifumi, born August 18, 1982) is a Japanese animator, character designer, director, and animation director born in Osaka. He is affiliated with A-1 Pictures.
After graduating from Tokyo Animation Academy (Tokyo Animator Gakuin), he joined Studio Takuranke. He left the company in less than half a year and, after working at Feel and Gainax, he joined A-1 Pictures.
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Production Credits
Toshifumi Akai has 48 production credits.Visual Effects
Credited for Key Animation in 21 shows - He Is My Master, Sugar Sugar Rune, Noein: To Your Other Self, Gurren Lagann, Nagasarete Airanto, Darker than Black, Soul Eater, Birdy the Mighty: Decode, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Sound of the Sky, Black★Rock Shooter, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, Blue Exorcist, The Rolling Girls, Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia, Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity – Grand Temple of Time: Solomon, Akebi's Sailor Uniform, SPY x FAMILY, Encouragement of Climb: Next Summit, Do It Yourself!! and Bocchi the Rock!.
Credited for Animation Director in 6 shows - Nagasarete Airanto, Toradora!, Kannagi, Sound of the Sky, THE iDOLM@STER MOVIE: Beyond the Brilliant Future! and THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls.
Credited for Supervising Animation Director in 1 show - Sound of the Sky.
Credited for Character Designer in 3 shows - Sound of the Sky, Kokoro Connect and Granblue Fantasy: The Animation.
Directing
Credited for Director in 7 shows - THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls, Shelter, DARLING in the FRANXX, Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia, Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity – Grand Temple of Time: Solomon, SPY x FAMILY and WIND BREAKER.
Credited for Second Unit Director in 1 show - Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity – Grand Temple of Time: Solomon.
Credited for Assistant Director in 1 show - DARLING in the FRANXX.
Credited for Series Director in 2 shows - Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia and WIND BREAKER.
Art
Credited for Storyboard Artist in 6 shows - THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls, DARLING in the FRANXX, Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia, Fate/Grand Order Final Singularity – Grand Temple of Time: Solomon, SPY x FAMILY and WIND BREAKER.