Sumio Watanabe

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Sumio Watanabe

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Gender: Male
Date of birth: unknown
Place of birth: Hyogo, Japan
Location: Japan

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 participating the role of storyboard and director was extremly high, but currently he is doing key animation work more often. He had also served as the president of the "Meta Studio", a drawing department from Studio Guts. He is now giving out 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)

Movies

Participation in: 1 movie

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

References

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