Kozue Horanai

Kozue Horanai
Profile
Gender:	Female
Location:	Japan
Position:	Animation director Key animation
Last name can also be Horauchi, Donai or Douchi.

Kozue Horanai (洞内 梢 ,Haranai Kozue) is a Japanese animator. She does key animation, animation, and animation director works for Detective Conan anime, movies, and spin-offs.

Biography

Kozue Horanai joined the production of Detective Conan anime in 2006, starting with the 2nd part of Sonoko's Red Handkerchief; after that, she began to participate in the anime production irregularly. In 2013, she temporarily quit the Detective Conan anime production team, then followed by her return in 2016. Yet until 2019 she quit the production team once again, after finishing the key animation work of the 1st part of Search for Maria-chan!.

In addition, all of Kozue's works in the anime was key animation. Apart from the main anime, she was also involved in some Detective Conan movies and spin-offs production: The Culprit Hanzawa and Zero's Tea Time (she served as animation director in episode 2 of the latter).

Works in Detective Conan

• See Animation directed by Kozue Horanai

Anime

Participation in: 19 cases (19 episodes)

Jpn#	Int#	Episode title	Original broadcast	Role	Note
458	498	Sonoko's Red Handkerchief (Part 2)	November 27, 2006	Key animation
468	508	Mysterious Case Near the Pond	March 12, 2007	Key animation
598	649	Clash of Red and Black (Disturbance)	December 4, 2010	Key animation
614	665	The Secret Played by the Diary (Part 1)	May 7, 2011	Key animation
696	748	The Flowerbed Vandal's Scheme	May 4, 2013	Key animation
844	899	The Detective Boys in a Grove (Part 2)	December 24, 2016	Key animation
855	910	The Mystery of the Vanished Black Belt	April 15, 2017	Key animation	M21 pre-story
861	916	Just Like a 17 Years Old Crime Scene (Part 1)	June 3, 2017	Key animation
867	922	The Betrayal's Stage (Part 2)	July 22, 2017	Key animation
876	931	The Mechanical Witness	October 7, 2017	Key animation
881	936	The Wizard of the Ripples (Part 1)	November 18, 2017	Key animation
889	944	The New Teacher's Skeleton Case (Part 1)	January 20, 2018	Key animation
897	952	The Woman with White Hands (Part 2)	March 24, 2018	Key animation
908	963	Friendship Washed Away in the Riverbed	July 21, 2018	Key animation
909	964	Mystery of the Burning Tent (Part 1)	July 28, 2018	Key animation
916	971	The Kendo Tournament of Love and Mystery (Part 1)	October 6, 2018	Key animation
922	977	The Disappeared Detective Boys	November 24, 2018	Key animation
936	993	Intrigue at the Food Court	April 13, 2019	Key animation	M23 pre-story
941	998	Search for Maria-chan! (Part 1)	June 1, 2019	Key animation

Movies

Participation in: 5 movies

Movie	Title	Original airdate	Role	Note
9	Strategy Above the Depths	April 9, 2005	In-between animation
21	The Crimson Love Letter	April 15, 2017	Key animation
22	Zero the Enforcer	April 13, 2018	Key animation
26	Black Iron Submarine	April 14, 2023	Key animation
27	The Million-dollar Pentagram	April 12, 2024	Key animation

Other notable works

Anime

• Detective Conan: Zero's Tea Time: Animation Director, Key Animation (TIME.2)
• Detective Conan: The Culprit Hanzawa: Key Animation (Episode 9)
• Naruto: Shippuden: Key animation
• Agatha Christie no Meitantei Poirot to Marple: In-Between Animation
• The Ancient Magus' Bride: Key animation
• Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion: 2nd Key Animation (Seigasha)
• ERASED: 2nd Key Animation, Key Animation
• Haikyu!! Second Season: 2nd Key Animation, Key Animation
• My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU: 2nd Key Animation, Key Animation
• Oshi no Ko: 2nd Key Animation

Movies

• One Piece: The Giant Mechanical Soldier of Karakuri Castle: Key animation
• Shin Kyūseishu Densetsu Hokuto no Ken: Raoh-den Junai no Shō: In-Between Animation (Seigasha)
• Doraemon the Movie: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey (movie 1-25) : In-Between Animation

References

1. Page partially or completely translated from the Chinese version of July 12th, 2023.
2. 洞内梢 - Atwiki (Japanese)
3. 洞内梢 - Allcinema (Japanese)
4. IMDb
5. Anime Planet
6. Anime News Network