List of anime directors

This is a list of notable anime directors. Romanized names are written in Western order (given names before family names), whereas kanji names are written in Japanese order (family names before given names).

A

 * Masashi Ando (安藤 雅司)
 * Hideaki Anno (庵野 秀明)
 * Ei Aoki (あおき えい)
 * Morio Asaka (浅香 守生)

D

 * Osamu Dezaki (出﨑 統)

H

 * Keiichi Hara (原 恵一)
 * Mamoru Hosoda (細田 守)

I

 * Kunihiko Ikuhara (幾原 邦彦)
 * Tomoyuki Itamura (板村 智幸)
 * Atsuko Ishizuka (いしずかあつこ)

K

 * Sunao Katabuchi (片渕 須直)
 * Yoshiaki Kawajiri (川尻 善昭)
 * Shōji Kawamori (河森 正治)
 * Osamu Kobayashi (小林 治)
 * Satoshi Kon (今 敏)

M

 * Kōichi Mashimo (真下 耕一)
 * Tsutomu Mizushima (水島 努)
 * Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎 駿)
 * Takeshi Mori (もりたけし)

N

 * Shingo Natsume (夏目真悟)

O

 * Mari Okada (岡田 麿里)
 * Shinichi Omata (小俣 真一)
 * Shin Oonuma (大沼 心)
 * Mamoru Oshii (押井 守)
 * Katsuhiro Otomo (大友 克洋)

R

 * Rintaro (りんたろう)

S

 * Junichi Sato (佐藤 順一)
 * Akiyuki Shinbo (新房 昭之)
 * Makoto Shinkai (新津 誠)

T

 * Isao Takahata (高畑 勲)

U

 * Hiroko Utsumi (内海紘子)

Y

 * Naoko Yamada (山田 尚子)
 * Masaaki Yuasa (湯浅 政明)