Minoru Yamaoka

Biography

Minoru Yamaoka (山岡 実, Yamaoka Minoru) is a Japanese freelance anime director and storyboard artist.

Personal Facts

Known For

Directing

Gender

male

Known Credits

19

Known For

• 

  Villainess Level 99: I May Be the Hidden Boss But I'm Not the Demon Lord
• 

  Colorful
• 

  Hakuouki: Wild Dance of Kyoto

Credits

• directing (11 credits)

  • You and I Are Polar Opposites

    - Fluttery Confusion (2026) ... director directing

    - Cute and Cool (2026) ... director directing
    2026
  • Villainess Level 99: I May Be the Hidden Boss But I'm Not the Demon Lord

    series director

    directing

    - The Hidden Boss Battles the Demon Lord (2024) ... series director directing

    - The Hidden Boss Is Confessed To (2024) ... series director directing

    - The Hidden Boss Enters a Dungeon (2024) ... series director directing

    - The Hidden Boss Is Solicited by an Enemy Nation (2024) ... series director directing

    - The Hidden Boss Meets a Dragon (2024) ... series director directing
    2024
  • SHOSHIMIN: How to Become Ordinary

    - Just Deserts (2025) ... director directing

    - Should We Really Have Met? (2025) ... director directing

    - Sweet Memory (2) (2024) ... director directing
    2024
  • The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses

    - Christmas Party! (2024) ... director directing

    - Eleven Co-ed Cohabitors (2024) ... director directing
    2023
  • TRIGUN STAMPEDE

    - To a New World (2023) ... director directing

    - Humanity (2023) ... director directing

    - Once Upon a Time in Hopeland (2023) ... director directing

    - The Running Man (2023) ... director directing
    2023
  • Terror in Resonance

    - Ready or Not (2014) ... director directing

    - Search & Destroy (2014) ... director directing
    2014
  • Hakuouki: Wild Dance of Kyoto

    second unit director

    directing
    2013
  • Colorful

    assistant director

    directing
    2010
  • Naruto Shippūden

    - Fate (2009) ... director directing
    2007
  • Bleach

    - Pride of the Kuchiki Family! Byakuya vs. Byakuya! (2011) ... director directing
    2004
  • Fighting Spirit

    - Hawk vs. Eagle (2014) ... director directing

    - A Savage Scenario (2013) ... director directing

    - The Strongest Challenger (2013) ... director directing
    2000

• art (8 credits)

  • You and I Are Polar Opposites

    - Fluttery Confusion (2026) ... storyboard artist art
    2026
  • Harmony of Mille-Feuille

    - Hands Together (2025) ... storyboard artist art

    - Our A Cappella (2025) ... storyboard artist art

    - Pop Music Debut?! (2025) ... storyboard artist art
    2025
  • Villainess Level 99: I May Be the Hidden Boss But I'm Not the Demon Lord

    - The Hidden Boss Enrolls in the Academy (2024) ... storyboard artist art
    2024
  • TRIGUN STAMPEDE

    - Bright Light, Shine Through the Darkness (2023) ... storyboard artist art

    - The Running Man (2023) ... storyboard artist art
    2023
  • Urusei Yatsura

    - Asuka Returns / A Stormy Date (1) (2024) ... storyboard artist art
    2022
  • The Quintessential Quintuplets

    - Legend of Fate Day 2 (2019) ... storyboard artist art

    - The Photo That Started It All (2019) ... storyboard artist art

    - A Day Off (2019) ... storyboard artist art
    2019
  • Terror in Resonance

    - Search & Destroy (2014) ... storyboard artist art
    2014
  • Bleach

    - Pride of the Kuchiki Family! Byakuya vs. Byakuya! (2011) ... storyboard artist art
    2004