Animator

Takahiro Yoshimatsu is a veteran Japanese animator with a career spanning more than 40 years in the anime industry. Renowned for his work as a character designer and chief animation director, he has contributed to numerous influential productions across multiple decades. His representative works include:

• Future GPX Cyber Formula
• Slayers: The Motion Picture
• Trigun, Jubei-chan
• Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars
• Oh! Edo Rocket
• Kiba, Basquash!
• A Place Further than the Universe
• Karakuri Circus
• Hunter × Hunter, Goodbye, Don Glees!
• BULLET/BULLET.

Outside of animation, Yoshimatsu is a passionate fan of professional wrestling, particularly WWE, and has attended WrestleMania seven times. He is also a devoted SEGA enthusiast and, under the pen name Something Yoshimatsu, has published three manga volumes humorously personifying classic SEGA game consoles such as the Dreamcast and Mega Drive.