Sumio Watanabe

Sumio Watanabe
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Gender:	Male
Date of birth:	unknown
Place of birth:	Hyogo, Japan
Location:	Japan
Nicknames:	渡边纯夫 渡辺すみお

Sumio Watanabe (渡辺 純央 ,Watanabe Sumio) is a Japanese animator. He does storyboard and key animation works in Detective Conan anime and movies. He is affiliated with Studio Guts.

Works in Detective Conan

Watanabe debuted as an animator in 1984, via the TV movie Lensman (SF新世紀レンズマン). From 2003 to 2007, Watanabe's frequency of serving the role of storyboard and director was extremly high, but currently he is doing key animation work more often. In addition, he had also served as the president of the "Meta Studio", a drawing department from Studio Guts. He is now giving lectures at Tokyo Zokei University (東京造形大学).

Watanabe has joined the production of the Detective Conan anime since 2018, and served as storyboard artist for some anime episodes, until present.

Participation in: 4 cases (5 episodes)

• The Job Request from Inspector Megure (Episode 911): Storyboard
• The Murderous Carpool (Episode 921): Storyboard
• A Woman Standing by the Window (Episodes 929-930): Storyboard
• The Sweet Voice Heard Through the Phone (Episode 1069): Storyboard

Participation in: 1 movie

• The Fist of Blue Sapphire (Movie 23): Key animation

Other notable works

Anime

• Akame ga KILL!: Key Animation
• Beelzebub: Key Animation
• Castle in the Sky: In-Between Animation Assistance
• Demashitaa! Powerpuff Girls Z : Storyboard, Episode director
• Digimon Fusion : Key Animation
• Many more including Lupin III, Monster Hunter, One Piece, Seven Deadly Sins, etc.

See also

• Studio Guts

References

1. 渡辺純央 - Wikipedia (Japanese)
2. IMDb
3. Anime News Network