Masayuki Hiraoka

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Masayuki Hiraoka

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Gender: Male
Date of birth: November 6, 1959
Place of birth: Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Location: Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Position: Animation director
Studio: Studio Live
Years active: 1981-2018
Aliases: マサユキ
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Also known as Masayuki.

Masayuki Hiraoka (平岡 正幸 Hiraoka Masayuki?), born November 6, 1959, is a Japanese animation director from Hyogo Prefecture. He only does animation director work in Detective Conan anime.

Biography

Masayuki Hiraoka graduated from Osaka Designers' College (大阪デザイナー学院); after the graduation, he joined Studio Live (スタジオ・ライブ). Moreover, he himself disclosed that his pet dog is named "Momo" (モモ), a Pembroke Welsh Corgi.

One of Hiraoka's style: miniscule characters' mouth.

In 1999, Hiraoka joined the production of the Detective Conan anime under the name of freelance animator, starting with the 1st part of Magic Lover's Murder Case, and began to serve as an animation director regularly within the production team. He was appointed to work on the episodes produced by Sunshine Corporation (even though not with the name of "production cooperation", the key animation group was of that firm). As a result, most of the frames drawn by the animators from the key animation group were quite magnificent, this was one of the factors that contributed to the great quality within the episodes he was responsible.

During his stint in the Detective Conan production team, he successfully conceived his own particular style, but has been rather controversial among the fandom - some fans were convinced that his style resembles those famed Detective Conan animators like Atsushi Aono, or even the original author Gosho Aoyama; yet others thought that the characters from his hands were too far off the anime character design.

In 2001, after finishing the animation correction work for The Secret of the High Sales, Hiraoka quit the production team (whereupon his position as a regular animation director was replaced by Takehiro Hamatsu). He was then back in the production team shortly from 2002 to 2003, and did animation direction for another two episodes, but this time being credited as Masayuki (マサユキ ?). Evidently, his art style altered, and thus the peculiar "round faced" Conan was nowhere to be found, transforming to a more sharp one; Conan's pupil became absurdly huge as well. After that, he has not involved in Detective Conan until now.

Works in Detective Conan

Anime

Participation in: 19 cases (19 episodes)

Jpn# Int# Episode title Original broadcast Role Note
132 142 Magic Lover's Murder Case (The Case) January 25, 1999 Animation director
138 148 The Final Screening Murder Case (Part 1) March 8, 1999 Animation director
143 153 The Suspicious Astronomical Observation May 3, 1999 Animation director
149 159 The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case June 21, 1999 Animation director
155 165 Underwater Key in the Locked Room Case August 2, 1999 Animation director
160 170 The Legend of the Mysterious Five Storied Pagoda (Part 2) September 13, 1999 Animation director
167 178 Tottori Spider Mansion Demon (The Suspicion) November 8, 1999 Animation director
173 184 The Revival of the Dying Message (Part 2) December 20, 1999 Animation director
179 193 The Coffee Shop Truck's Wild Entrance Case February 7, 2000 Animation director
183 197 A Dangerous Recipe March 6, 2000 Animation director
188 203 The Desperate Revival - The Cavern of the Detective Boys May 1, 2000 Animation director
194 209 The Significant Music Box (Part 1) June 12, 2000 Animation director
201 216 The Tenth Passenger (Part 1) July 31, 2000 Animation director
207 222 The Deduction That Was Too Good September 11, 2000 Animation director
215 231 The Bay of Revenge (Part 1) November 27, 2000 Animation director
220 239 The Client Full of Lies (Part 1) January 15, 2001 Animation director
225 244 The Secret of the High Sales February 19, 2001 Animation director
265 287 Courtroom Confrontation: Kisaki vs. Kogoro (Part 2) January 21, 2002 Animation director Credited as
マサユキ
315 340 Place Exposed to the Sun April 14, 2003 Animation director Credited as
マサユキ

Other notable works

Anime

  • Ai to Yūki no Pig Girl Tonde Būrin: Animation director
  • Brave Exkaiser: Character design
  • Ceres, Celestial Legend: Animation director
  • Dinosaur King: Character design
  • Pokémon: Animation director
  • Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer: In-between animation

See also

References

  1. 平岡正幸 - Wikipedia (Japanese)
  2. 平岡正幸 - Atwiki (Japanese)
  3. Anime News Network