Susumu Mitsunaka

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Susumu Mitsunaka

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Gender: Male
Date of birth: June 10, 1980[Note 1]
Location: Japan
Position: Director
Storyboard
Episode director
Key animation
Years active: 2001-present
Aliases: 神奈摘陽親
Website: Twitter Account

Susumu Mitsunaka (満仲 勧 Mitsunaka Susumu?), also known by his alias Haruchika Kanatsumi (神奈摘 陽親 Kanatsumi Haruchika?)[Note 2], is a Japanese movie director, storyboard artist and director. He was originally from Doga Kobo (動画工房).

Biography

Known for his passion of baseball, Susumu Mitsunaka was noticed by Tsutomu Mizushima (水島 努) for the realism and fluidity of the batting movements while animating Big Windup! (おおきく振りかぶって), and Mitsunaka was appointed as action animation director for the series in 2010[1]. Ever since the sequel of that series was aired in 2010, he formally became an action animation director. In 2008, he was in charge of the screenplay and direction of the 226th episode of anime Sgt. Frog (ケロロ軍曹), thereafter he was frequently involved in the directing realm - notably, in 2012, he served as sub-director for anime Campione! (カンピオーネ!); in 2014, he directed Haikyu!! (ハイキュー!!), which was one of the most well-known works of his.

Mitsunaka's first involvement in Detective Conan was in 2019, when he did the storyboard work of Episode 961: The Glamping Mystery, under his alias Haruchika Kanatsumi (神奈摘 陽親). In December of 2021, he was revealed as the director for Movie 25: The Bride of Halloween[2].

Works in Detective Conan

As Haruchika Kanatsumi

Anime

Participation in: 1 case (1 episode)

Jpn# Int# Episode title Original broadcast Role Note
961 1018 The Glamping Mystery November 30, 2019 Storyboard

Openings and Endings

Participation in: 1 opening

# Song name Original title Role Note
OP52 JUST BELIEVE YOU JUST BELIEVE YOU

Movies

Participation in: 1 movie

Movie Title Original airdate Role Note
24 The Scarlet Bullet April 16, 2021 Storyboard, Technical director, Key animation

As Susumu Mitsunaka

Anime

Participation in: 1 case (1 episode)

Jpn# Int# Episode title Original broadcast Role Note
1029 1086 Police Academy Arc Wild Police Story CASE. Jinpei Matsuda December 5, 2021 Key animation

Movies

Participation in: 1 movie

Movie Title Original airdate Role Note
25 The Bride of Halloween April 15, 2022 Director, Storyboard, Technical director, Key animation

Other notable works

Anime

  • Big Windup!: Assistant animation director, key animation, episode director
  • Black Lagoon: Key animation
  • Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2: Key animation
  • Digimon Tamers: The Adventurers' Battle: In-between animation
  • Haikyu!!: Director, storyboard, episode director, key animation
  • Many more including InuYasha, Pokémon, Bunny Drop, etc.

Movies

  • Cowboy Bebop: The Movie: In-between animation
  • Fate/Grand Order The Movie Divine Realm of the Round Table: Camelot: Storyboard

References

  1. 満仲勧 - Wikipedia (Japanese)
  2. Anime News Network
  1. ^ Note: Speculated based on Mitsunaka's Twitter post.
  2. ^ Note: Similarly to Koujin Ochi's pseudonym, Susumu Mitsunaka's pseudonym Haruchika Kanatsumi is conceived utilising the rearrangements of individual hiragana characters: 満仲 (みつなか) → 神奈摘 (かなつみ)