Hibiki Yoshizaki

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Hibiki Yoshizaki
Born (1980-03-10) March 10, 1980 (age 44)
Tokyo, Japan
Occupation(s)Video artist, animator, music video director, art director, motion graphics designer
Known forME!ME!ME!
GIRL
Kirai, Demo, Suki
Eve's Bouto (Mob)
Signature

Hibiki Yoshizaki (吉崎 響, Yoshizaki Hibiki, born March 10, 1980) is a Japanese video artist, animator, music video director, art director, and motion graphics designer. He is best known for his animated music videos "ME!ME!ME!" and "GIRL," which gained mainstream popularity both in Japan and internationally after being submitted to the Japan Animator Expo. He also works as VJ Cotobuki with Naoki Nagayasu.

Biography[edit]

Yoshizaki was born in Tokyo, Japan. At the age of 16, he was deeply impressed by Kōji Morimoto's MV "Extra" (music by Ken Ishii), which inspired him to work in animation. As a high school student, he started working in Gainax under the guidance of Hiroyuki Yamaga. He then entered Tama Art University and started working as a VJ in nightclubs all around Tokyo while studying animation under the mentorship of Kōji Morimoto at Studio 4°C.[1]

After graduation, he became a freelance motion graphics designer and art director, mainly for animated music videos and promotional videos. In 2011, for making Clammbon's Kanade Dance MV, he was selected as one of the top 100 video artists of the year in a magazine published by BNN Shinsha, Japan.[2] In 2013, he created the first-two original animated music videos "ME!ME!ME!" and "GIRL" in collaboration with TeddyLoid and Daoko. It was made as the 3rd and 31st episode of Japan Animator Expo, which has gone viral with over 100 million views on YouTube and achieved the highest number of views among all 36 episodes in the project. After working as a freelance art director for 18 years, he joined Khara in 2016.

Selected works[edit]

Television series[edit]

Year Television Notes
2008 Macross Frontier Motion graphics
2013 AKB0048: Next Stage Opening director and storyboard artist

OVAs[edit]

Year OVA Notes
2003-2004 Macross Zero Motion graphics
2005 Gundam Evolve CG
2013 Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta Opening director, storyboard artist, and motion graphics
2013-2014 Yozakura Quartet: Tsuki ni Naku Opening director, storyboard artist
2014 Psycho-Pass 2 Subtitle design

Films[edit]

Year Film Notes
2010 Halo Legends Display designer (The Package)
2012 Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo Motion graphics director and design works
2013 Harlock: Space Pirate Title logo design
2017 The Dragon Dentist Unit director and storyboard artist
2021 Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time Storyboard artist

Music videos[edit]

Year Music video Artist Notes Ref
2014 ME!ME!ME! TeddyLoid feat. Daoko Director, unit director, editor, compositor, storyboard artist, visual effects, and original creator [3][4]
2015 ME!ME!ME! CHRONIC TeddyLoid feat. Daoko Director, storyboard artist, and original creator
2015 GIRL Daoko Director, storyboard artist, and original creator [citation needed]
2016 Sakura Nagashi Hikaru Utada Director [5]
2016 The Asahi Shimbun Motohiro Onishi Director
2022 Adam by Eve: A Live in Animation: Bouto (Mob) Eve Director [citation needed]

Other MV[edit]

Year Music video Artist Notes
2007 Believe i-dep Director
2009 Room #204 Jazztronik Director
2010 KANADE DANCE Clammbon Director

Video games[edit]

Year Video game Notes
2003 Star Ocean: Till the End of Time Item designer
2013 Ace Combat Infinity Cinematics and motion graphics
2019 Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Cinematics director

Commercials[edit]

Year Commercial Notes
2016, 2020 HAL Tokyo College of Technology & Design: Kirai, Demo, Suki Director

Awards and recognition[edit]

  • 2014: MTV Video Music Award Japan for Best Animation Video for "ME! ME! ME!" by TeddyLoid feat. Daoko
  • 2014: Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize for Animation for "ME! ME! ME!" by TeddyLoid feat. Daoko
  • 2015: Tokyo Anime Award for Best Music Video for "GIRL" by Daoko
  • 2022: Tokyo Anime Award for Best Director for Evangelion: 3.0+1.01 Thrice Upon a Time

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Hibiki.ne.jp". Archived from the original on April 26, 2013. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
  2. ^ "クラムボンMV『KANADE Dance』 | FEATURE | CGWORLD.jp". Archived from the original on November 26, 2014. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
  3. ^ "Japan Anima(tor)'s Exhibition website offers a new avenue for animation industry"
  4. ^ "フィラリア予防薬通販|犬猫|犬糸状虫症|ぽちたま薬局".
  5. ^ "Evangelion: 3.33 Music Video for Hikaru Utada's Song Features Unused Cuts". Anime News Network. September 18, 2016. Retrieved September 20, 2016.

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