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Tetsuro Araki

b. 1976 · 12 titles in the catalogue

Tetsuro Araki (荒木 哲郎, Araki Tetsuro) is a Japanese anime director, best known as the director of the Death Note anime adaptation. He is married to editor Aya Hida.

Araki is a graduate at Senshu University and worked with Madhouse before moving with Production I.G and later Wit Studio. His directorial debut was 2005's original video animation Otogi-Jūshi Akazukin. He is best known as the director of the Death Note, Highschool of the Dead and Attack on Titan anime adaptations. He is also the director of two original anime series Guilty Crown and Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, and the original anime fiilm Bubble. Araki, along with Death Note character designer Masaru Kitao, appeared at Anime Expo 2007.

Their work

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  1. Attack on Titan2013Director · Opening/Ending Animation · Series Director · Storyboard Artist
  2. Death Note2006Director · Series Director · Storyboard Artist
  3. High School of the Dead2010Director · Key Animation · Series Director · Storyboard Artist
  4. Black Lagoon2006Director · Storyboard Artist
  5. Bubble2022Director · Second Unit Director · Storyboard Artist
  6. High School of the Dead: Drifters of the Dead2011Director
  7. Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God2007Director
  8. Guilty Crown2011Director · Key Animation · Series Director · Storyboard Artist
  9. Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress2016Director · Series Director · Storyboard Artist
  10. Death Note Relight 2: L's Successors2009Director · Screenplay
  11. The Garden of Sinners: Paradox Spiral2008Key Animation
  12. Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: The Battle of Unato2019Director · Screenplay