Mitsuru Ishihara

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Mitsuru Ishihara (石原満, Ishihara Mitsuru, born March 20, 1969) is an animator. He worked on various Mega Man anime, and is the character designer for Rockman EXE until Rockman EXE Beast.

Animation Works

Due to changes in the English dub of the MegaMan anime that altered the episode count, the Japanese episode count will be used instead.

• Rockman EXE:
  • Character Designer
  • Chief Animation Director: Ep. #2, #4, #5, #6, #7, #9, #11, #12
  • Animation Director: Ep. #8, #13 (with Takenori Tsukuma), #25 (with Hatsue Kato), #35, #51, #56
  • Key Animation: Ep. #51

• Rockman EXE Axess:
  • Character Designer
  • Opening Animation
  • Animation Director: Ep. #44, #51
  • Key Animation: Ep. #17, #22

• Rockman EXE Stream:
  • Character Designer
  • Animation Director: Opening, Ending 1, Ending 2, Ep. #40, #51
  • Key Animation: Ending 2

• Rockman EXE: Hikari to Yami no Program:
  • Character Designer
  • Animation Director (with Akio Takami, Meiju Maeda, Seiki Tanaka, Shingo Adachi, Shinichi Yamaoka, and Tadashi Sakazaki)

• The Day of Σ:
  • Key Animation

• Rockman EXE Beast:
  • Character Designer
  • Storyboard: Ep. #14
  • Animation Director: Opening, Ending, Ep. #14, #25
  • Key Animation: Ep. #14, #25

• Rockman EXE Beast+:
  • Key Animation: Ep. #26
    • Zoom up on CF Rockman using Charge Shot (#26)

• Shooting Star Rockman Tribe:
  • Key Animation: Ep. #21

Games

• Rockman.EXE WS
  • Cover art

Books

• Rockman EXE Axess (1) (Shogakugan TV Picture Book)
  • All page illustrations
• Rockman EXE 20th Anniversary Treasure Box
  • Cover art

Gallery

Rockman EXE promo.

Rockman EXE DVD cover.

Rockman EXE Beast promo.

Rockman EXE Beast DVD cover.

Rockman EXE WS cover.

Mega Man 20th anniversary art.

Rockman EXE Treasure Box teaser.

Rockman EXE Treasure Box cover.

Trivia

• Mitsuru Ishihara drew many pieces for the Japanese home media covers of the Rockman EXE anime until Rockman EXE Beast.
• On the UK DVD release of Mega Man Star Force, Ishihara is credited as the character designer when it should be Shingo Adachi.
• At Xebec, a quota of inbetween frames is required to become a key animator. Ishihara's idea was to put the quota at 1,000 drawings a month.
• In the game, Halo, Ishihara was apparently a really good sniper that nails head shots and always took down newbies.

External links

• Mitsuru Ishihara on Anime News Network
• Mitsuru Ishihara on Sakuga @wiki