I think I figure out the animation director names.

[rzerox21xx]

So far, I know there were other threads that try to figure out which director did this animation and yes, there are easier ones and really hard ones that are too similar. I been obcessed so far in trying to figure who did what episode.

Thanks to the famous daimao website, you can see who did what episode from the early saiyan to the early artifical humans arc. ep 1 - 135

http://www.xmission.com/~daimao/epindex2.htm

Thanks to Kanzentai, you can see which teams did what episode in Dragonball in this page. Every episode!

http://www.kanzentai.com/production.php ... or_credits

The hard part the middle of Cell and Buu in determining which director did this episode.

Now.. this message board thread help me get closer in my goal. Scroll down and you see a couple of videos that collected clips of episode with the director.

http://www.manganimation.net/bbs/viewto ... f=11&p=112

I know Masayuki Uchiyama for his famous pale cartoony type.

Yukio Ebisawa for his triangle crap and Mitsuo Shindou for the evil eye.

Keisuke Masunaga did the famous New type which is great

Masahiro Shimanuki and Kazuya Kuda are so similar in animation and look that I find it difficult to tell the 2 apart. They are famous for the wide turns and animated body language when the characters talk. Here the episodes I know they did

Shimanuki = 68, 76, 81, 87, 93, 219 and the Gaiden game.

Kazuya Kuda = 98, 103, 109, 119, 125, 130, 134, 146, 268

Tomekichi Takeuchi = 4, 11, 19, 25, 31, 36, 40, 54, 58, 63

Episodes that had to be done by either of them, 140, 150, 155, 160, 166, 170, 175, 180, 187, 205, 211, 225, and 231

Minoru Maeda is pretty famous snice his style is so good and he did movie 1 - 7 and the trunks special. Naoyoshi Yamamuro did movie 8 - 13, he also a great director that have a very toriyamaish style. He did 7, 14, 21, 28, 34, 40, 48, 70, 77, 90, 95(ssj goku), 107, 112, 117 124, 164

Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru is good but did a few episodes which is 44, 120 and the Bardock special.

Yuuji Hakamada did what I call the thick blocky type, it still look toriyamaish and it look great in the Goku death episode in the Cell games. Episode = 188, 196, 203, 209, 215, 221, 227, and 240. He's very easy to identify.

The more Toriyamaish directors are

Naoyoshi Yamamuro = 122, 127, 133, 157, 162, 168, 185, 206. Movie 8-13.

Naoki Miyahara = 159, 199.

Takeo Ide = 129, 138

Masaki Satou = 64

Isao Hayashi = 245(ssj 3 goku)

Shingo Ishikawa = 229, 263, 271.



Now if any of you who are knowledgeable can help out, it would be great. I hope some of you do recongnize what episode those are.

[Hujio]

I think I can help you out a little, since your list looks a little incomplete. Here's the list I've made for Kanzentai, though it's not on the site... yet. This is a complete list of every "Animation Supervisor" or "Animation Director" (whichever you prefer) that worked on DragonBall. That's every episode, TV special, and Movie.

DragonBall (1-153)

前田　実 / Maeda Minoru
1, 4, 8-9, 15, 22, 29, 36, 50, 57, 64, 71, 82, 89, 97, 104, 112, 119, 125, 132, 139, 146, 153

竹内留吉 / Takeuchi Tomekichi
2, 10, 19, 26, 32, 40, 43, 48, 55, 61, 68, 75, 83, 90, 94, 102, 108, 116, 122, 129, 136, 143, 150

内山まさゆき / Uchiyama Masayuki
3, 6, 11, 16, 20, 23, 27, 31, 34, 38, 41, 44, 46, 49, 52, 54, 58, 62, 65, 69, 72, 78, 84-85, 87, 91, 93, 96, 101, 105, 109, 111, 115, 118, 120

海老沢幸男/ Ebisawa Yukio
5, 12, 18, 25, 33, 39, 45, 56, 63, 70, 77, 81, 86, 92, 99, 106, 113, 124, 131, 138, 145, 152

進藤満尾 / Shindou Mitsuo
7, 13, 17, 24, 30, 37, 42, 47, 53, 60, 67, 74, 79, 88, 95, 103, 110, 114, 121, 128, 135, 142, 149

青嶋克己 / Aoshima Katsumi
14, 21, 28, 35, 51, 59, 66, 73, 100, 107, 117, 126, 133, 141, 148

小原太一郎 / Ohara Taiichirou
76, 80, 98

内山正幸 / Uchiyama Masayuki
123, 127, 130, 134, 137, 140, 144, 147, 151


DragonBall Z (1-291 / Bardock Special / Trunks Special)

内山正幸 / Uchiyama Masayuki
1, 5, 8, 12, 15, 18, 22, 26, 29, 32, 35, 38, 42, 45, 49, 53, 55, 59, 62, 67, 72, 74, 79, 83, 85, 88, 92, 96, 100, 102, 105, 108, 113, 118, 123, 128, 132, 136, 141, 145, 149, 151, 156, 161, 165, 169, 172, 178, 181, 186, 190, 194, 197, 203, 208, 212, 218, 223, 228, 233, 238, 243, 248, 254, 259, 265, 269, 273, 278, 283, 288

青嶋克己 / Aoshima Katsumi
2, 9, 16, 23, 30

進藤満尾 / Shindou Mitsuo
3, 10, 17, 24, 37, 43, 50, 52, 57, 60, 65, 69, 73, 78, 82, 86, 91, 97, 101, 106, 111, 116

竹内留吉 / Takeuchi Tomekichi
4, 11, 19, 25, 31, 36, 40, 47, 54, 58, 63

海老沢幸男/ Ebisawa Yukio
6, 13, 20, 27, 33, 39, 46, 51, 56, 61, 66, 71, 75, 80, 84, 89, 94, 99, 104, 110, 115, 121, 126, 131, 135, 139, 144, 148, 153, 158, 163, 167, 171, 176, 183, 189, 193, 198, 204, 210, 213, 217, 224, 230, 237, 244, 250, 256, 262, 270, 275, 282, 290

前田　実 / Maeda Minoru
7, 14, 21, 28, 34, 41, 48, 70, 77, 90, 95, 107, 112, 117, 124, 142, 154, 164, T-SP

中鶴勝祥 / Nakatsuru Katsuyoshi
44, 120, B-SP

佐藤正樹 / Satou Masaki
64

島貫正弘 / Shimanuki Masahiro
68, 76, 81, 87, 93, 160, 166, 170, 175, 180, 187, 205, 211, 219, 225, OVA

久田和也 / Kuda Kazuya
98, 103, 109, 114, 119, 125, 130, 134, 140, 146, 150, 155, 231, 268, 281, 287

山室直儀 / Yamamuro Naoyoshi
122, 127, 133, 137, 143, 147, 152, 157, 162, 168, 173, 185, 200, 206, 232, 242, 249, 255, 285

井手武生 / Ide Takeo
129, 138

宮原直樹 / Miyahara Naoki
159, 199, 280, 289

増永計介 / Masunaga Keisuke
174, 179, 184, 191, 195, 201, 207, 214, 220, 226, 234, 239, 247, 253, 260, 266, 274, 279

服部一郎 / Hattori Ichirou
177

袴田裕二 / Hakamada Yuuji
182, 188, 192, 196, 202, 209, 215, 221, 227, 235, 240, 258, 264, 272, 277, 286

石川晋吾 / Ishikawa Shingo
216, 222, 229, 236, 241, 246, 251, 257, 263, 271, 276, 284, 291

林　委千夫 / Hayashi Ichio
245

北條直明 / Houjou Naoaki
252, 261, 267


DragonBall GT (1-64)

久田和也 / Kuda Kazuya
1, 10, 16, 22, 27, 33, 38, 44, 51, 57, 63

内山正幸 / Uchiyama Masayuki
2, 7, 12, 18, 23, 26, 29, 34, 39, 41, 45, 50, 53, 55, 58, 62

袴田裕二 / Hakamada Yuuji
3, 8, 14, 20, 32, 37, 46, 60

菅野利之 / Kanno Toshiyuki
4, 9, 15, 21

石川晋吾 / Ishikawa Shingo
5

宮原直樹 / Miyahara Naoki
6, 64

稲上　晃 / Inagami Akira
11, 28, 35, SP

山室直儀 / Yamamuro Naoyoshi
13, 19, 25, 31, 40, 42, 48, 52, 59

井手武生 / Ide Takeo
17, 24, 30, 47, 56, 61

小泉　昇 / Koizumi Noboru
36, 43, 49, 54


Movies (DB: 1-3 / DBZ: 4-16 / 10th anniversary: 17)

前田　実 / Maeda Minoru
1-6, 8-9

中鶴勝祥 / Nakatsuru Katsuyoshi
7

佐藤正樹 / Satou Masaki
7

前田みのる / Maeda Minoru
10

山室直儀 / Yamamuro Naoyoshi
11-17


There ya go.

[rzerox21xx]

Huijo, God bless you, Thank you, now I can die in peace lol. Oh my gosh, how you found this info. I thank you from the bottom of my heart, oh man I'm so printing this. I been watching the season boxsets and unfortunatly Funimation doesn't provide the Japanese credits. I been like that with Kenshin and rewatch every episode and see the animation director in the credit and I would be thinking, why can Funi provide that info.

[kei17]

The lists are pretty accurate, but some names are a little bit wrong.

竹内留吉 / Takeuchi Tomeyoshi
久田和也 / Hisada Kazuya
菅野利之 / Sugano Toshiyuki

竹内留吉: Takeuchi Tomekichi
久田和也: Kuda Kazuya
菅野利之: Kanno Toshiyuki

In addtion, 内山まさゆき and 内山正幸 are the same person. He just changed his pen name during the series. It's the same with 前田みのる and 前田実.

By the way, Takeuchi Tomekichi was the oldest Sakuga Kantoku (Animation Director) in the DB series. He even fought against US Army in World War II. His first work was 少年猿飛佐助 (Shounen Sarutobi Sasuke) in 1959 and he continued his work until around 2000, but unfortunately passed away in 2001.

Edit:
Recent bad cover arts of DB related DVDs and video games are the works of Yamamuro Naoyoshi, the Animation Director for the late DBZ movies. He did great jobs during the series, but recently it seems that he lost his touch very much..

[Hujio]

The lists are pretty accurate, but some names are a little bit wrong.

竹内留吉 / Takeuchi Tomeyoshi
久田和也 / Hisada Kazuya
菅野利之 / Sugano Toshiyuki

竹内留吉: Takeuchi Tomekichi
久田和也: Kuda Kazuya
菅野利之: Kanno Toshiyuki

Ah, thanks for the help. I've never been that great with Japanese names, since there's no furigana. As far as Takeuchi Tomekichi is concerned, that's just my fault I misspelled the name. As for Kuda Kazuya and Kanno Toshiyuki, I wasn't sure exactly how to spell their names, so I went with the ones listed on Anime News Network; Hisada Kazuya and Sugano Toshiyuki. So which ones are correct?

I might have to get a hold of you sometime and have you look over a couple things.

In addtion, 内山まさゆき and 内山正幸 are the same person. He just changed his pen name during the series. It's the same with 前田みのる and 前田実.

That I knew, I just forgot to mention it. Except Takeuchi Tomekichi... I can't believe I missed that. Anyway, on Kanzentai, I'll add little notes signifying when two credits are the same person. Those notes just weren't in the file I copied this from.

By the way, Takeuchi Tomekichi was the oldest Sakuga Kantoku (Animation Director) in the DB series. He even fought against US Army in World War II. His first work was 少年猿飛佐助 (Shounen Sarutobi Sasuke) in 1959 and he continued his work until around 2000, but unfortunately passed away in 2001.

That's a nice piece of trivia. I'll definitely remember that.

[rzerox21xx]

Wow, thanks to that info, I notice the difference between Shimanuki and Kazuya. Athough using very similar moving animation. Shimanuki faces are more round while Kazuya is more straight.

[Smooth Criminal]

Masunaga Keisuke is AMAZING.

I finally have a name to praise for all of those superbly-directed episodes.

[Chuquita]

Masunaga Keisuke is AMAZING.

I finally have a name to praise for all of those superbly-directed episodes.

I second that motion.

I love ep #274! It's one of my favorites. X3

[Haseowolf]

I must say I have to agree. I knew this information was gathered SOMEWHERE on the internet, and having it here so readily is really fantastic. All of you do such great work. Its really quite amazing how many great things this little community can do!

Thank you so very much.

[jjgp1112]

Masunaga Keisuke is AMAZING.

I finally have a name to praise for all of those superbly-directed episodes.

I second that motion.

I love ep #274! It's one of my favorites. X3

Thirded.

[kei17]

As for Kuda Kazuya and Kanno Toshiyuki, I wasn't sure exactly how to spell their names, so I went with the ones listed on Anime News Network; Hisada Kazuya and Sugano Toshiyuki. So which ones are correct?

Even I, a native Japanese read that way at first, but these pages say that they're Kuda and Kanno.

http://movie.goo.ne.jp/cast/153076/
http://movie.goo.ne.jp/cast/154012/

I might have to get a hold of you sometime and have you look over a couple things.

Don't hesitate to PM me when you'd like to know about Sakuga related things in DB or several DB dubs in the world.

I notice the difference between Shimanuki and Kazuya. Athough using very similar moving animation...

Such "moving animation" depends on 原画マン (Genga-man, Keyframe-animator) and not the work of Animation Director. Shimanuki and Kazuya also did keyframes in many episodes which they were not the animation director, so you can see their "moving animation" in such episodes. However, the only way to check the Genga-man is to see the original endings in DragonBoxes so it's hard for people don't speak Japanese to check it.

Masunaga Keisuke is AMAZING.

Some Japanese DB fans say that he was quite good in the Buu arc, but his style of drawing was too far from Toriyama's in the Cell arc. They sometimes call his style "Potato-face".
I like well-done actions in the episodes he engaged though I also personally don't like his style.

Edit: I found an AMV features his works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwQbmG8xDDs&fmt=35

BTW, my favourite Animation Directors are the ones belonged to 菁画舎 (Seigasha), Takeuchi Tomekichi, Shimanuki Masahiro and Kuda Kazuya. There is an AMV features their works on YouTube. I really like the insanely-done flying scene starts at 2:00.

dbz 菁画舎
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GW1outXEkk&fmt=35

[rzerox21xx]

Thank you, I been quite enlightened, I even notice that at times, some episodes that I would say Yamaruroish woudl be somewhat Kazuyaish with the animation. It's hard to see frame by frame. Yukio Ebizawa is capable of doing great work like the Vegeta atonement episode 237 yet his characters would look bad like Ep 250 with the first appearance of Old Kai. Uchiyama Masayuki does great fighting animation but too bad the characters look like they came out of Dragonball or early Saiyan saga rather than Buu or Cell. I would love to know more about the difference between the moving animation to the director where the characters look either pale cartoony, triangle crap, new type or toriyamaish. No wonder I had such a hard time finding out who did 245(ssj 3 goku), that director only did one episode as well as the ep 64(Vegeta vs Recoom) which I assumed it was Maeda but Masaki Satou only episode int he series.

[rzerox21xx]

Awhile ago, there was a thread that posted the names of studios like Last house, studio live, shindo production, studio juno and k production. I just went on animenewsnetwork.com on the Dragonall z entry and saw those very studio names. Funny that after viewing the directors, I want to know more about those too.

[rzerox21xx]

Wow, thanks Kei, I watched the videos, it became more clear to me why I mistaken often Takeuchi, Shimanuki, and Hisada for each other. hahahahaa. I use to catergorize them in groups like that. Early Dragonball style(uchiyama), Crooked style(ebizawa), Turn animation stye(takeuchi, shimanuki, hisada), facial style(masunaga) and Toriyamaish stye(Yamamuro and Maeda), and wide evil eye(shindo).

[jjgp1112]

Maeda Minoru seems to be the originator of the style that Akira Toriyama eventually began using.

And Uchiyama Masayuki prooves that the Pale Cartoony type used to be basically one of the best styles back when Akira Toriyama was using the old, round style. He did DBZ episode 1.

Also, the "Next To The Best" and "Closest To Toriyama" styles were both supervised by numerous people, especially "Next to the best." For Next to the best, all of the episodes look similar, but each supervisor has some unique aspect that's different from the other. My favorite of the turn animation styles is Shimanuki's, and least favorite is Takeuchi.

Also, the triangle crap and pale cartoony type did way too many episodes.

[Smooth Criminal]

Kei, those videos are great. This is the first evidence I've ever seen of people making Animation Director-specific AMVs.

Any more where those came from?

[Mosaic]

Wow! Thanks for the list!

Are these animators still getting work? I've never seen their style in any other anime. Except Uchiyama Masayuki, who worked on Toei's Yu-Gi-Oh series.

I'm impressed they were 8 different animation directors on Dragon Ball. I've seen short series with over 12 different animators.