Yuichi Itou

Biography

Yuichi Itou (伊東 優一, Itō Yūichi) is an animator, animation director and director. He was formerly part of Kyoto Animation and Ufotable.

Personal Facts

Known For

Visual Effects

Gender

male

Known Credits

21

Known For

• 

  The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
• 

  Kero Kero Keroppi's Three Musketeers

Credits

• directing (5 credits)

  • Grasshopper Monogatari

    director

    directing
    2026
  • After-school Hanako-kun

    - After-school Mokke / After-school Café (2024) ... director directing

    - The Summer Monster: Toilet-bound Hanako-san / Return of the Summer Monster (2024) ... director directing

    - Nightmares / At the Convenience Store (2024) ... director directing

    - Apparition Fever / A Mokke Came Home With Me! (2023) ... director directing

    - Kokkuri-san / Mitsuba's Operation: Friends (2023) ... director directing
    2023
  • Pokémon Evolutions

    - The Rival (2021) ... director directing
    2021
  • Love Is Like a Cocktail

    - Shandygaff (2017) ... director directing
    2017
  • She and Her Cat: Everything Flows

    - She and the Look in Her Eyes (2016) ... director directing

    - She and Her Sky (2016) ... director directing
    2016

• visual effects (11 credits)

  • Pokémon Evolutions

    - The Rival (2021) ... key animation visual effects
    2021
  • DARLING in the FRANXX

    - The City of Eternity (2018) ... key animation visual effects
    2018
  • Little Witch Academia

    - Pact of the Dragon (2017) ... key animation visual effects
    2017
  • Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works]

    - The Final Decision (2014) ... key animation visual effects

    - Winter Days, Where the Heart is (2014) ... key animation visual effects

    - Finding the Will to Fight (2014) ... key animation visual effects

    - A Winter Day, a Fateful Night (2014) ... key animation visual effects
    2014
  • Fate/Zero

    - Fate/Zero (2012) ... key animation visual effects

    - All the Evil in the World (2012) ... key animation visual effects

    - The Eighth Contract (2012) ... key animation visual effects

    - The Grail Beckons (2011) ... key animation visual effects

    - The Mage-Slayer (2011) ... key animation visual effects
    2011
  • The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya

    key animation

    visual effects
    2010
  • K-ON!

    - Light Music! (2009) ... opening/ending animation visual effects

    - Crisis! (2009) ... opening/ending animation visual effects

    - Another Training Camp! (2009) ... opening/ending animation visual effects

    - New Club Member! (2009) ... opening/ending animation visual effects

    - Freshman Reception! (2009) ... opening/ending animation visual effects
    2009
  • Clannad

    - Small Palms (2009) ... key animation visual effects

    - The Ends of the Earth (2009) ... key animation visual effects

    - A Sudden Happening (2008) ... key animation visual effects

    - A Courageous Battle (2008) ... key animation visual effects

    - Where She Belongs (2008) ... key animation visual effects
    2007
  • Lucky Star

    - Delicious Day (2007) ... key animation visual effects

    - Image (2007) ... key animation visual effects

    - Sharpshooter (2007) ... key animation visual effects

    - The Girl Who Runs Swiftly (2007) ... key animation visual effects
    2007
  • The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

    - The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya (4) (2009) ... key animation visual effects

    - Endless Eight (6) (2009) ... key animation visual effects

    - Endless Eight (4) (2009) ... key animation visual effects

    - Live Alive (2006) ... key animation visual effects

    - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya IV (2006) ... key animation visual effects
    2006
  • Kero Kero Keroppi's Three Musketeers

    key animation

    visual effects
    1991

• art (5 credits)

  • Insomniacs After School

    - Altair and Vega (2023) ... storyboard artist art

    - Canopus (2023) ... storyboard artist art
    2023
  • After-school Hanako-kun

    - After-school Mokke / After-school Café (2024) ... storyboard artist art

    - The Summer Monster: Toilet-bound Hanako-san / Return of the Summer Monster (2024) ... storyboard artist art

    - Nightmares / At the Convenience Store (2024) ... storyboard artist art

    - Apparition Fever / A Mokke Came Home With Me! (2023) ... storyboard artist art

    - Kokkuri-san / Mitsuba's Operation: Friends (2023) ... storyboard artist art
    2023
  • Call of the Night

    - 4th Night: Isn't This a Tight Squeeze? (2022) ... storyboard artist art
    2022
  • Classroom of the Elite

    - Man is wolf to man. (2024) ... storyboard artist art
    2017
  • Love Is Like a Cocktail

    - Shandygaff (2017) ... storyboard artist art
    2017