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Midori Yoshizawa (吉澤 翠) is a Japanese animator, storyboard artist, and director.

Career
Yoshizawa's first job in the anime industry was as an animator at Studio Luna around 2012. She worked at the studio for a year or two and then joined Toei Animation as an apprentice director working on One Piece. Around 2014, she left Toei and began freelancing for Shaft. Initially, she took on animation and assistant episode direction roles like her previous jobs, but was given episode direction duties across several series by 2015.

In 2019, she was involved with the studio's adaptation of the Magia Record mobile game, in the first season serving as a "director" (equivalent to a series director for a specific set of episodes) due to chief director Doroinu having no prior experience with directing a television anime. As such, Yoshizawa, Kenjirou Okada, and Yukihiro Miyamoto were chosen to supervise sets of episodes, with Miyamoto presiding as assistant director. The depiction in the 9th episode of the series, in which an AI gradually becomes more human, was broadly influenced by Yoshizawa herself. For the second and third seasons of the work, Miyamoto was promoted to series director under Doroinu, and Yoshizawa was promoted to assistant director. In the second episode of the second season, both Yoshizawa and Miyamoto were in charge of storyboarding the episode; but rather than splitting the content between the A and B-parts of the episode (the first and second halves), they split the content based on what they felt like depicting, such as Miyamoto taking charge of the action sequences.

Following the end of production on Magia Record, Yoshizawa took a break from directing duties and only contributed storyboards through 2022 and 2023, with the exception of supervising animator and first-time director Hiroto Nagata's opening for The Quintessential Quintuplets~. As Yoshizawa had directed the eleventh episode of the first season outsourced to Shaft in 2019, animation producer Yuuya Matsukawa appointed Yoshizawa to storyboard the second episode of the special; and Shaft was chosen to produce the special due to the popularity of Yoshizawa and Shaft's episode in the first season.

In the fall of 2022, Aniplex producer Tatsuya Ishikawa approached Shaft to continue the Monogatari series, and studio president Mitsutoshi Kubota selected Yoshizawa to be the new series director under Akiyuki Shinbo's chief direction, replacing prior series directors Tomoyuki Itamura and Tatsuya Oishi.

Teleivison series
Highlights main staff roles.