Takayuki Hirao

Twitterhttps://x.com/hira0takayuk1 He graduated from Osakas Designer College and started his career at Madhousehttps://anilist.co/studio/11/MADHOUSE as a production assistant later making the transition to storyboarder and episode director with Texhnolyzehttps://anilist.co/anime/26/. During his time at Madhouse he served as Assistant Director to Satoshi Konhttps://anilist.co/staff/99580/SatoshiKon on Paranoia Agenthttps://anilist.co/anime/323/ParanoiaAgent/ and was greatly influenced by him regarding him as his mentor. Shortly after leaving Madhouse he joined Ufotablehttps://anilist.co/studio/43/ufotable where he worked for several years and made his proper directorial debut with Kara no Kyoukai 5https://anilist.co/anime/4282/. He left Ufotable in 2016 and hes been freelance since returning to the company only to direct the opening for the video game Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey. Him and Tetsurou Arakihttps://anilist.co/staff/100088/ are really close friends since their days at Madhouse. They run a column called Bariuta no ai wo shiritai published in the Animage monthly magazine. He is married to color designer Emi Chibahttps://anilist.co/staff/103075/.