Masaharu Okuwaki

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Masaharu Okuwaki

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Gender: Male
Date of birth: March 19, 1958
Place of birth: Japan
Location: Yamanashi, Japan
Nicknames: オクワキマサハル

Masaharu Okuwaki (奥脇 雅晴 Okuwaki Masaharu?), born March 19, 1958, is a Japanese screenplay writer, storyboardist, episode director and director from Yamanashi. He frequently uses his pen name Masaki Ozora (大宙 征基 Ōzora Masaki?) in the credits.

Biography

Okuwaki graduated from Chiyoda Gakuen Educational Corporation (学校法人千代田学園), and now a freelance animator. He mainly involves in the animation works done by TMS Entertainment. In his early years, he had worked in Oh! Production (オープロダクション) and Toei Animation (東映アニメーション). Moreover, when he served as the director of Kirarin Revolution (きらりん☆レボリューション) during the second year, he used his name in katakana "オクワキマサハル", nevertheless, he was still credited in kanji when doing stroyboard work. After 2000, he participated in the production of animation works mainly under his pen name Masaki Ozora.

Okuwaki's first involvement in Detective Conan was in 2004, when he still used his real name Masaharu Okuwaki to work on the movies. After that, he constantly served as the storyboard assistant for the movies until 2011. For the anime, in 2009, Okuwaki joined the production team, and served as organizer and storyboard artist, until present. (Note that he only used his pen name Masaki Ozora when working on the anime)

Incidentally, Masaharu Okuwaki is the disciple of the current Detective Conan director, Yasuichiro Yamamoto. In addition, the idea that Conan kicks off the table in Intrigue at Smile Village was thought up by him.

Works in Detective Conan

As Masaki Ozora

Participation in: 98 cases (145 episodes)

Participation in: 2 movies

Note: He participated in more movies under the name of Masaharu Okuwaki

As Masaharu Okuwaki

Participation in: 1 OVA

Participation in: 8 movies

Other notable works

Anime

  • Cross Game: Storyboard
  • Lupin III: Screenplay, Director and Storyboard
  • Lupin III: Tōhō Kenbunroku ~Another Page~ (special): Storyboard
  • Go! Wrestler Gundan: Director
  • Cat's Eye: Screenplay, Episode Director

See also

References

  1. Page partially or completely translated from the Chinese version of September 1st, 2023.
  2. 奥脇雅晴 - Wikipedia (Japanese)
  3. Masaki Ozora - IMDb
  4. Masaharu Okuwaki - Anime News Network