Hiroyuki Nishimura

Career Overview

Hiroyuki Nishimura has 46 screen credits in a career dating back to 1988. Their work spans 10 cinematic universes — most prominently Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin Collection with 6 titles. Signature works include Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers, Scarlet Nexus, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Visual Effects

Gender

male

Known Credits

46

Known For

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  Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers
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  Scarlet Nexus
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  Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM
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  Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa
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  Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin V – Clash at Loum
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  Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin II – Artesia's Sorrow

Associated Universes

Universe traveler — spans 10 universes

• Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin Collection (6 titles)
• Crayon Shin-chan Collection (6 titles)
• Doraemon Movies (2 titles)
• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom Collection (1 titles)
• City Hunter (Reboot) Collection (1 titles)
• Inazuma Eleven Collection (1 titles)
• Fullmetal Alchemist Collection (1 titles)
• X (Clamp) Collection (1 titles)

Frequent Collaborators

• Junya Enoki (2 collaborations)
• Asami Seto (2 collaborations)
• Houko Kuwashima (2 collaborations)
• Kotono Mitsuishi (2 collaborations)
• Michiko Neya (2 collaborations)
• Toru Okawa (2 collaborations)
• Toshio Furukawa (2 collaborations)
• Shuichi Ikeda (2 collaborations)
• Toru Furuya (2 collaborations)
• Jin Urayama (2 collaborations)

Credits

• visual effects (40 credits)

  • Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers

    lead animator

    visual effects

    - Gai (2026) ... lead animator visual effects

    - True (2026) ... lead animator visual effects

    - Love (2026) ... lead animator visual effects

    - Warning (2026) ... lead animator visual effects

    - Duty (2026) ... lead animator visual effects
    2026
  • Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM

    key animation

    visual effects
    2024
  • Lonely Castle in the Mirror

    key animation

    visual effects
    2022
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island

    key animation

    visual effects
    2022
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury

    - The Woven Path (2023) ... key animation visual effects

    - The Woven Path (2023) ... animation director visual effects

    - Our Empty Selves (2023) ... key animation visual effects

    - Our Empty Selves (2023) ... animation director visual effects

    - Envoys from the Earth (2023) ... key animation visual effects
    2022
  • Scarlet Nexus

    character designer

    visual effects

    - To Each Their Own Future (2021) ... character designer visual effects

    - Operation Destroy the Kunad Gate (2021) ... character designer visual effects

    - Slumbering Desire (2021) ... character designer visual effects

    - The Sumeragi Tomb (2021) ... character designer visual effects

    - Brothers (2021) ... character designer visual effects
    2021
  • City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes

    key animation

    visual effects
    2019
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin VI – Rise of the Red Comet

    animation director

    visual effects
    2018
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin V – Clash at Loum

    animation director

    visual effects
    2017
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin IV – Eve of Destiny

    animation director

    visual effects
    2016
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin III – Dawn of Rebellion

    animation director

    visual effects
    2016
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin II – Artesia's Sorrow

    animation director

    visual effects
    2015
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin I – Blue-Eyed Casval

    animation director

    visual effects
    2015
  • Inazuma Eleven GO vs. Danball Senki W

    character designer

    visual effects
    2012
  • Colorful

    key animation

    visual effects
    2010
  • Ranma ½: Nightmare! Incense of Spring Sleep

    key animation

    visual effects
    2008
  • Kaiba

    - Everyone in the Clouds (2008) ... key animation visual effects
    2008
  • Sword of the Stranger

    key animation

    visual effects
    2007
  • Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa

    key animation

    visual effects
    2005
  • Mind Game

    key animation

    visual effects
    2004
  • A Tree of Palme

    key animation

    visual effects
    2002
  • Sakura Wars: The Movie

    compositing artist

    visual effects
    2001
  • Crayon Shin-chan: Explosion! The Hot Spring's Feel Good Final Battle

    key animation

    visual effects
    1999
  • Doraemon: Nobita Drifts in the Universe

    key animation

    visual effects
    1999
  • Crayon Shin-chan: Pursuit of the Balls of Darkness

    key animation

    visual effects
    1997
  • X

    key animation

    visual effects
    1996
  • Crayon Shin-chan: Great Adventure In Henderland

    key animation

    visual effects
    1996
  • Rurouni Kenshin

    - A Devil of Vengeance: Makoto Shishio's Plot (1996) ... key animation visual effects
    1996
  • Shamanic Princess

    - The Festival of Wind (1998) ... key animation visual effects

    - Guardian World (1998) ... key animation visual effects

    - Awakening (1997) ... key animation visual effects

    - Forest (1996) ... key animation visual effects
    1996
  • Crayon Shin-chan: Unkokusai's Ambition

    key animation

    visual effects
    1995
  • El-Hazard: The Magnificent World

    - The World of Endless Adventures (1996) ... key animation visual effects
    1995
  • Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture

    key animation

    visual effects
    1994
  • Crayon Shin-chan: The Hidden Treasure of the Buri Buri Kingdom

    key animation

    visual effects
    1994
  • Crayon Shin-chan: Action Mask vs. Leotard Devil

    key animation

    visual effects
    1993
  • Spirit of Wonder: Miss China's Ring

    key animation

    visual effects
    1992
  • I Am THE Shiratori Reiko!

    key animation

    visual effects
    1990
  • Doraemon: Nobita and the Animal Planet

    key animation

    visual effects
    1990
  • Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water

    - Run, Marie, Run! (1990) ... key animation visual effects
    1990
  • Ranma ½

    - Enter Shampoo, the Gung-Ho Girl! I Put My Life in Your Hands (1989) ... key animation visual effects

    - Pelvic Fortune-Telling? Ranma is the No. One Bride in Japan (1989) ... key animation visual effects

    - P-P-P-Chan! He's Good For Nothin' (1989) ... key animation visual effects

    - Enter Ryoga! The Eternal 'Lost Boy' (1989) ... key animation visual effects

    - School is No Place for Horsing Around (1989) ... key animation visual effects
    1989
  • Osomatsu-kun

    - Iyami's Gibberish Japan-zansu! (1989) ... key animation visual effects
    1988

• directing (2 credits)

  • Scarlet Nexus

    series director

    directing

    - To Each Their Own Future (2021) ... series director directing

    - Operation Destroy the Kunad Gate (2021) ... series director directing

    - Slumbering Desire (2021) ... series director directing

    - The Sumeragi Tomb (2021) ... series director directing

    - Brothers (2021) ... series director directing
    2021
  • Shamanic Princess

    director

    directing

    - The Festival of Wind (1998) ... director directing

    - Guardian World (1998) ... director directing

    - Morning Prayer (1997) ... director directing

    - Awakening (1997) ... director directing

    - Forest (1996) ... director directing
    1996

• writing (1 credits)

  • Sakura Wars: The Movie

    screenplay

    writing
    2001

• art (3 credits)

  • Scarlet Nexus

    - To Each Their Own Future (2021) ... storyboard artist art

    - Scarlet Psionics (2021) ... storyboard artist art
    2021
  • Sakura Wars: The Movie

    storyboard artist

    art
    2001
  • Ruin Explorers Fam & Ihrie

    storyboard artist

    art

    - The Skies, the Sea and the Woods (1996) ... storyboard artist art

    - Let the Light of Admonishment Shine Upon the Fools (1995) ... storyboard artist art

    - Oh, Spirits that Reside in the Air! (1995) ... storyboard artist art

    - As I Command Thee (1995) ... storyboard artist art
    1995