Mari Tominaga
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| Gender: | Female |
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| Date of birth: | unknown |
| Place of birth: | Tokyo, Japan |
| Location: | Tokyo, Japan |
| Nicknames: | 富永真里 富永まり |
Mari Tominaga (とみなが まり Tominaga Mari), real name "富永真理", is a Japanese animation director and character designer. She is a member of Studio Live and is currently working freelance. She was character designer for Detective Conan anime from episodes 356 to 504. Along with Masatomo Sudo, she was character designer in episodes 219 and 263.
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Works in Detective Conan
Tominaga has joined the production of the Detective Conan anime since 1996, starting with the first one hour special Moonlight Sonata Murder Case, and began to serve as key animator. Moreover, she was the sub-character designer for The Train Trick Murder Case. Tominaga has been an animation director since 1999, starting with The Locked Room in the Sky: Shinichi Kudo's First Case. Afterwards, she did key animation and animation direction irregularlly throughout the anime. Furthermore, she was credited as "富永まり" in The Twenty Year Old Murderous Intent: The Symphony Serial Murder Case.
In 2003, when Masato Sato became the director, the production staff had undergone a huge alteration, this led Tominaga replace Sudo for the anime character design role, she thus became the second anime character designer of Detective Conan. In addition, she served as the chief animation director for two TV specials, The Trembling Police Headquarters: 12 Million Hostages and Kaitou Kid's Miraculous Midair Walk . Meanwhile, she was also responsible for the animation direction work for loads of openings and endings. In mid-2007, Tominaga completely quit doing openings and endings in the anime, as a consequence, this relative work was then delivered to Keiko Sasaki.
In 2008, when Koujin Ochi became the director, Tominaga stepped down from the anime character designer, after that, she constantly did key animation for the Detective Conan movies. She was also involved in the red love arc of The Scarlet School Trip, in which she served as key animator. She was responsible for two frames of Shinichi and Ran kissing, and received compliment from the original author Gosho Aoyama.
Openings and Endings
Participation in: 7 openings and 8 endings
- destiny (Opening 9): Key animation
- Kimi to Yakusoku Shita Yasashii Ano Basho Made (Opening 13): Animation director
- START (Opening 14): Animation director
- Hoshi no Kagayaki yo (Opening 15): Animation director
- Shōdō (Opening 17): Animation director
- 100 Mono Tobira (Opening 18): Animation director
- Kumo ni Notte (Opening 19): Animation director
- Ashita o Yume Mite (Ending 17): Key animation
- Nemuru Kimi no Yokogao ni Hohoemi o (Ending 19): Animation director
- Wasurezaki (Ending 20): Animation director
- June Bride ~Anata Shika Mienai~ (Ending 21): Animation director
- Sekai Tomete (Ending 22): Animation director
- Thank You For Everything (Ending 23): Animation director
- Mō Kimi Dake o Hanashitari wa Shinai (Ending 25): Animation director
- Shiroi Yuki (Ending 26): Animation director
Movies
Participation in: 24 movies
- The Time-Bombed Skyscraper (Movie 1): Key animation
- The Fourteenth Target (Movie 2): Key animation
- The Last Wizard of the Century (Movie 3): Key animation
- Captured in Her Eyes (Movie 4): Key animation
- Countdown to Heaven (Movie 5): Key animation
- The Phantom of Baker Street (Movie 6): Key animation
- Magician of the Silver Sky (Movie 8): Key animation
- Strategy Above the Depths (Movie 9): Key animation
- The Private Eyes' Requiem (Movie 10): Key animation
- Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure (Movie 11): Key animation
- Full Score of Fear (Movie 12): Key animation
- The Raven Chaser (Movie 13): Key animation
- The Lost Ship in the Sky (Movie 14): Key animation
- Quarter of Silence (Movie 15): Key animation
- The Eleventh Striker (Movie 16): Key animation
- Private Eye in the Distant Sea (Movie 17): Key animation
- Dimensional Sniper (Movie 18): Key animation
- Sunflowers of Inferno (Movie 19): Key animation
- The Darkest Nightmare (Movie 20): Key animation
- Zero the Enforcer (Movie 22): Animation director
- The Fist of Blue Sapphire (Movie 23): Key animation
- The Scarlet Bullet (Movie 24): Key animation
- The Bride of Halloween (Movie 25): Assistant animation director
- Black Iron Submarine (Movie 26): Key animation
Note: Also served as key animator for TV Special The Disappearance of Conan Edogawa: The Worst Two Days in History
OVAs
Participation in: 4 OVAs
- Conan, Kid, and the Crystal Mother (OVA 4): Character design, Chief animation director
- The Target is Kogoro!! The Detective Boys' Secret Report (OVA 5): Character design, Chief animation director
- Follow the Vanished Diamond! Conan & Heiji vs. Kid! (OVA 6): Character design, Chief animation director
- Chase the Mysterious Comet Monster! (Shogakukan Illustrated Encyclopedia Series 6): Key animation
Games
Participation in: 2 games
- Detective Conan: The Great Deduction of Three People (2000): Animation director (Opening Animation)
- Detective Conan: The Greatest Partner (2002): Character design, Animation director (Opening Animation)
Other notable works
Anime
- Detective Conan: Zero's Tea Time: Key Animation
- Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War: Animation Director, Key Animation
- Cardfight!! Vanguard: Character Design, Chief Animation Director, Animation Director
- D. Gray-man: Key Animation
- Dr. Stone: Chief Animation Director, Animation Director, Key Animation
- Dragon Ball: In-Between Animation, Key Animation
- Monster: Key Animation
- Naruto: Key Animation
- Rumiko Takahashi Anthology: Character Design, Animation Director
- Sailor Moon S: Animation Director
Movies
- Naruto Shippūden: Blood Prison: Key Animation
- Naruto Shippūden: The Lost Tower: Key Animation
- Naruto Shippūden: The Will of Fire: Key Animation
- One Piece Film Gold: Key Animation
- Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle: Key Animation
OVAs
- Gosho Aoyama's Collection of Short Stories: Key Animation
- Black Butler II: Animation Director
- Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas: Animation Director, Assistant Animation Director, Key Animation
Trivia
- In episode 219, a Kaitou Kid girls' fan club member in a journal photo is named after her.
See also
References
- Page partially or completely translated from the Chinese version of August 14th, 2023.
- Twitter Account (Japanese)
- とみながまり - Wikipedia (Japanese)
- とみながまり - Allcinema (Japanese)
- Anime News Network
