Seiji Mizushima

Twitterhttps://twitter.com/oichanmusi Websitehttps://hifumiinc.co.jp/team/mizushimaseiji/ After graduating from Tokyo Designers Gakuin College Mizushima joined Tokyo Animation Filmhttps://anilist.co/studio/899/. While doing photography work at the beginning of his career he studied under director of photography Masahiro Kumagaihttps://anilist.co/staff/174419/. He later went to work for Sunrisehttps://anilist.co/studio/14/ as a production assistant aiming to become a fullfledged director. Mizushima debuted as an episode director in 1993 on Kouryuu Densetsu Villgusthttps://anilist.co/anime/2049/ aiding the director of the OVA Katsuhiko Nishijimahttps://anilist.co/staff/103059/. In 1998 he made his proper directorial debut with Generator Gawlhttps://anilist.co/anime/1022/. He has since gone on to direct numerous shows among which Shaman Kinghttps://anilist.co/anime/154/ Fullmetal Alchemisthttps://anilist.co/anime/121/ and Oh Edo Rockethttps://anilist.co/anime/2152/. He often cites Hideaki Annohttps://anilist.co/staff/100111/ as an anime director that he respects.