Shūkō Murase

is a Japanese anime director and animator. A member of Sunrise, he is noted for contributing the character designs and key animation to New Mobile Report Gundam Wing and Argento Soma. In 2000, he contributed the main character designs to Final Fantasy IX. He made his directorial debut in 2002 with Witch Hunter Robin.

Works

Anime television series

• Yoroiden Samurai Troopers (1988) (animation director)
• Mashin EiyÅ«den Wataru 2 (1990) (animation director)
• Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (1991) (animation director)
• Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (1993) (animation director)
• New Mobile Report Gundam Wing (1995) (character designs)
• Gasaraki (1998) (character designs)
• Argento Soma (2000) (character designs)
• Witch Hunter Robin (2002) (director, original creator)
• Samurai Champloo (2004) (key animation, storyboards, episode direction, ED animation)
• Ergo Proxy (2006) (director, storyboards, animation director)
• ' (2008) (storyboards)
• Gangsta (2015) (director)

• The Heroic Legend of Arslan (1991) (key animation)
• ' (1991) (key animation)
• Mobile Suit SD Gundam Matsuri SD Sengoku den Tenka Taihei hen (1993) (character design, animation director)
• ' (1997) (character designs)
• ' (1997) (character designs)
• Gundam Evolve 7 (2004) (director, storyboards, episode direction and management)
• Blade Runner Black Out 2022 (2017) (character design, animation director)

Film

• ' (1994) (character designs)
• ' (1998) (character design)
• ' (2001) (original character designs)
• Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam A New Translation: Heirs to the Stars (2005) (animation director, key animation)
• Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam III A New Translation: Love is the Pulse of the Stars (2006) (key animation)
• ' (2010) (segment director)
• Genocidal Organ (2017) (director, screenplay, character design, storyboard, key animation)
• ' (2021) (director, storyboard, key animation)
• ' (2026) (director, storyboard, key animation)

Video games

• Final Fantasy IX (2000) (main character designs)

Bibliography

• The Complete Works of Street Fighter II Movie (ストリートファイター2・映画資料全集). Shogakukan, 1994.
• Top Creators Teach How to Characters (トップクリエイターが教えるキャラクターの創り方『サムライチャンプルー』『エルゴプラクシー』にみるアニメーション制作現場). MC Press, 2007.
• Genocidal Organ Artworks (虐殺器官 アートワークス). Ichijinsha, 2017.

References

External links

• Shuko Murase anime at Media Arts Database
• ShÅ«kō Murase at IMDB