Junko Yamanaka

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Junko Yamanaka

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Gender: Female
Date of birth: unknown
Place of birth: Hyogo, Japan
Location: Japan

Junko Yamanaka (山中 純子 Yamanaka Junko?) is a Japanese animator, and character designer from Hyogo Prefecture. She served as key animator, animation director, and animation supervisor[Note 1] in Detective Conan anime, movies and OVAs. Another thing worth mentioning, she did character designing for the anime from episode 505 to episode 576, working along with Masatomo Sudo.

Biography

After graduating from secondary school, Yamanaka joined the Yumeta Company (梦太カンパニー), which is a Japanese animation studio. She then became a freelance animator after she quit the studio.

Yamanaka joined the production of Detective Conan anime in 1997, starting with The Train Trick Murder Case. Later on, she constantly served as the key animator for some anime episodes. She first worked as assistant animation director in The Twenty Year Old Murderous Intent: The Symphony Serial Murder Case. After that, she began to work with Masatomo Sudo more often. In 2002, she served as the animation director of openings and endings, with Sudo. Until 2004, Yamanaka temporarily quit the production of the Detective Conan anime and focused more on the movies.

Ending credits of The Scarlet Alibi.

After Masato Sato stepped down from the director role, Yamanaka returned to the anime and did character design from episode 505 onwards, working with Sudo once again. She then quit the anime production in 2010, after finishing the animation directing work in the empty fort strategy arc of The Mansion of Death and the Red Wall and stepped down from character designer role some months later. She only did key animation for two anime episodes afterwards: The Scarlet Truth in 2015 and the 3rd part of Kogoro Mouri's Grand Lecture in 2019.

For the Detective Conan movies, her participation can even be dated back to movie 3, when she began to do animation directing regularly until movie 14. She quit the movie production after movie 20.

In 2021, she returned to the series as key animator for the new scene in recap movie The Scarlet Alibi. In 2023, she did character design and key animation for the new scenes in recap movie The Story of Ai Haibara ~Black Iron Mystery Train~.

Interestingly, she was involved in some of the anime episodes during the director Koujin Ochi era, and served as the animation supervisor, but she was not credited back then. This was only revealed later in the ending credits of the compilation movie The Scarlet Alibi.

Works in Detective Conan

Anime

Participation in: 19 cases (20 episodes)

Jpn# Int# Episode title Original broadcast Role Note
55 57 The Train Trick Murder Case April 21, 1997 Key animation
61 63 A Ghost Ship Murder Case (Part 1) June 2, 1997 Key animation
110 116 Cooking Classroom Murder Case (Part 1) July 27, 1998 Key animation
115 121 Scuba Diving Murder Case (Part 2) August 31, 1998 Key animation
121 128 The Locked Bathroom Murder Case (Part 1) October 26, 1998 Key animation
125 132 A Mysterious Sniper Murder Case (Part 2) November 23, 1998 Key animation
154 164 Sonoko's Dangerous Summer Story (Part 2) July 26, 1999 Key animation
174 185-188 The Twenty Year Old Murderous Intent: The Symphony Serial Murder Case January 3, 2000 Assistant animation director, Key animation 2 hours
195 210 The Significant Music Box (Part 2) June 19, 2000 Key animation
218 234 Megure's Sealed Secret (Part 2) December 18, 2000 Key animation
239 258 The 3 "K"s of Osaka Case (Part 2) June 25, 2001 Key animation
286 308 Shinichi Kudo's New York Case (The Case) July 15, 2002 Animation director
536 587 The Secret of the Vanished Masterpiece May 30, 2009 Animation director
539 590 A Fool's Inheritance July 4, 2009 Animation director
546 597 The Witch Enshrouded by Fog (Part 2) September 12, 2009 Animation director
554 605 Stork Mystery Tour (Ran's Search Chapter) November 7, 2009 Animation director
555 606 Stork Mystery Tour (Haruna's Pursuit Chapter) November 14, 2009 Animation director
561 612 The Mansion of Death and the Red Wall (Empty Fort Strategy) December 26, 2009 Animation director
783 836 The Scarlet Truth June 27, 2015 Key animation
964 1021 Kogoro Mouri's Grand Lecture (Part 3) December 21, 2019 Key animation

Openings and Endings

Participation in: 9 openings and 9 endings

# Song name Japanese title Role Note
OP11 I can't stop my love for you♥ I can't stop my love for you♥ Animation director
OP12 Kaze no Lalala 風のららら Animation director
OP23 Ichibyōgoto ni Love for you 一秒ごとに Love for you Animation director
OP24 Mysterious Mysterious Animation director
OP25 Revive Revive Animation director
OP26 Everlasting Luv Everlasting Luv Animation director
OP27 MAGIC MAGIC Animation director
OP28 As the Dew As the Dew Animation director
OP37 Butterfly Core Butterfly Core Key animation
ED15 Mushoku 無色 Key animation
ED17 Ashita o Yume Mite 明日を夢見て Animation director
ED18 Kimi to Iu Hikari 君という光 Animation director
ED30 Summer Memories Summer Memories Animation director
ED31 GO YOUR OWN WAY GO YOUR OWN WAY Animation director
ED32 Koigokoro Kagayaki Nagara 恋心 輝きながら Animation director
ED33 Doing all right Doing all right Animation director
ED34 Hikari Animation director
ED35 Hello Mr. my yesterday Hello Mr. my yesterday Animation director

Movies

Participation in: 18 movies + 2 recap movies

Movie Title Original airdate Role Note
3 The Last Wizard of the Century April 17, 1999 Animation director, Key animation, In-between director, Design works
4 Captured in Her Eyes April 22, 2000 Animation director, Design works
5 Countdown to Heaven April 21, 2001 Key animation
6 The Phantom of Baker Street April 20, 2002 Animation director
7 Crossroad in the Ancient Capital April 19, 2003 Animation director
8 Magician of the Silver Sky April 17, 2004 Animation director, Design works
9 Strategy Above the Depths April 9, 2005 Animation director, Design works
10 The Private Eyes' Requiem April 15, 2006 Animation director, Design works
11 Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure April 21, 2007 Animation director, Design works
12 Full Score of Fear April 19, 2008 Animation director, Key animation, Design works
13 The Raven Chaser April 18, 2009 Animation director, Key animation, Design works
14 The Lost Ship in the Sky April 17, 2010 Animation director, Key animation, Design works
15 Quarter of Silence April 16, 2011 Key animation
16 The Eleventh Striker April 14, 2012 Key animation
17 Private Eye in the Distant Sea April 20, 2013 Key animation
18 Dimensional Sniper April 19, 2014 Assistant animation director, Key animation
19 Sunflowers of Inferno April 18, 2015 Assistant animation director
20 The Darkest Nightmare April 16, 2016 Key animation
R1 The Scarlet Alibi February 11, 2021 Key animation
R2 The Story of Ai Haibara ~Black Iron Mystery Train~ January 6, 2023 Character design, Key Animation

Participation in: 6 OVAs

OVA Title Original airdate Role Note
3 Conan, Heiji, and the Vanished Boy March 12, 2003 Character design
7 A Challenge from Agasa! Agasa vs. Conan and the Detective Boys March 14, 2007 Character design
8 The Casebook of Female High-School Detective Sonoko Suzuki March 12, 2008 Character design
9 The Stranger from Ten Years Later April 15, 2009 Character design
Magic File 2 Shinichi Kudo, The Case of the Mysterious Wall and the Black Lab April 19, 2008 Character design
Magic File 3 Shinichi and Ran, Memories of Mahjong Tiles and Tanabata April 18, 2009 Character design

Specials

Participation in: 1 special

Special Title Original airdate Role Note
3 Lupin III vs. Detective Conan March 27, 2009 Animation director, Design works

Other notable works

Anime

  • Magic Kaito: Kid the Phantom Thief: Key Animation
  • Aishiteruze Baby: Character Design, Animation Director
  • Angel Heart: Animation Director, Design, Key Animation
  • Aoharu x Machinegun: Character Design, Chief Animation Director
  • Diabolik Lovers: Animation Director, 2nd Key Animation, Key Animation
  • Dr. Stone: Chief Animation Director, Animation Director, Assistant Animation Director, Key Animation
  • Kamisama Kiss: Character Design, Animation Director
  • Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life: Character Design, Chief Animation Director, Animation Director, Assistant Animation Director
  • Scarlet Nexus: Chief Animation Director, Animation Director, Assistant Animation Director, Design Assistant, Key Animation
  • The World Is Still Beautiful: Chief Animation Director, Animation Director, Key Animation

Movies

  • Gekijōban Servamp: Alice in the Garden: Character Design
  • Lupin III vs. Cat's Eye: Character Design
  • Slam Dunk: Zenkoku Seiha da! Sakuragi Hanamichi: In-Between Animation

See also

References

  1. Page partially or completely translated from the Chinese version of June 22nd, 2023.
  2. 山中純子 - Wikipedia (Japanese)
  3. 山中純子 - Atwiki (Japanese)
  4. Anime News Network
  1. ^ Her name can be seen in the compilation movie The Scarlet Alibi, in which she was credited as "animation supervisor", along with Masatomo Sudo, Seiji Muta‎ and Nobuyuki Iwai‎.