Naoko Yamada

Director

Naoko Yamada (山田尚子) is a Japanese animator, television and film director. Working at Kyoto Animation, she directed the K-On! and Tamako Market anime series, and the anime films A Silent Voice and Liz and the Blue Bird. Yamada intended to work in film after university, but she decided to join Kyoto Animation after seeing an advertisement. Her first assignment at KyoAni was drawing inbetween frames for Inuyasha. She was eventually promoted to a key animator for Air. After working as an episode director of Clannad, she was asked to make her chief directorial debut with K-On!, an adaptation of...

Born: November 28, 1984 (Age 40) in Kyoto, Japan

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Title	Rating	Job	Role(s)	Year
The Heike Story Limited Series Available on 6 streaming services.	7.7	Directing	Opening/Ending Animation, Storyboard Artist, Series Director, Director 11 Episodes	2021-2021
Kaguya-sama: Love is War TV Show Available on 7 streaming services.	8.7	Visual Effects	Opening/Ending Animation 12 Episodes	2019-2023
Violet Evergarden Limited Series Available on 5 streaming services.	8.5	Art	Storyboard Artist 1 Episode	2018-2018
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid TV Show Available on 9 streaming services.	7.9	Directing	Director, Storyboard Artist 1 Episode	2017-2022
Sound! Euphonium TV Show Available on 6 streaming services.	8	Directing	Series Director, Storyboard Artist, Director 26 Episodes	2015-2024
Free! TV Show Available on 5 streaming services.	7.5	Directing	Opening/Ending Animation, Director, Storyboard Artist 25 Episodes	2013-2018
Beyond the Boundary TV Show Available on 6 streaming services.	7.4	Directing	Opening/Ending Animation, Director, Storyboard Artist 12 Episodes	2013-2014
Tamako Market TV Show Available on 2 streaming services.	7.1	Directing	Series Director, Director 12 Episodes	2013-2013
Hyouka TV Show Available on 4 streaming services.	7.9	Directing	Storyboard Artist, Director 2 Episodes	2012-2012
Nichijou: My Ordinary Life TV Show Available on 2 streaming services.	8.4	Directing	Director, Opening/Ending Animation, Storyboard Artist 2 Episodes	2011-2011
K-On! TV Show Available on 5 streaming services.	7.9	Directing	Series Director, Director, Opening/Ending Animation, Storyboard Artist, Key Animation 36 Episodes	2009-2010
Clannad TV Show Available on 6 streaming services.	8.3	Directing	Director, Storyboard Artist, Key Animation, Assistant Director 6 Episodes	2007-2009
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya TV Show Available on 4 streaming services.	7.8	Directing	Key Animation, Director 28 Episodes	2006-2009
Kanon TV Show Available on 2 streaming services.	7.3	Visual Effects	Key Animation 7 Episodes	2006-2007
Full Metal Panic! TV Show Available on 7 streaming services.	7.4	Visual Effects	Key Animation 1 Episode	2002-2006
The Colors Within Movie	7.3	Directing	Director, Storyboard Artist, Second Unit Director	2024
Modern Love Tokyo TV Show Available on 1 streaming services.	6.5	Directing	Storyboard Artist, Director 1 Episode	2022
Garden of Remembrance Short Film	7.8	Directing	Director, Screenplay	2022
Visual Prison TV Show	7.1	Visual Effects	Opening/Ending Animation 12 Episodes	2021
Sound! Euphonium the Movie – Our Promise: A Brand New Day Movie Available on 21 streaming services.	7.4	Directing	Second Unit Director, Key Animation	2019
Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll Movie Available on 13 streaming services.	7.7	Directing	Second Unit Director	2019
Liz and the Blue Bird Movie Available on 18 streaming services.	7.4	Directing	Director, Second Unit Director, Storyboard Artist	2018
Tsurune TV Show Available on 3 streaming services.	7.5	Directing	Director, Storyboard Artist 1 Episode	2018
Sound! Euphonium the Movie – May the Melody Reach You! Movie Available on 10 streaming services.	7.2	Directing	Series Director, Second Unit Director, Storyboard Artist	2017
A Silent Voice: The Movie Movie Available on 18 streaming services.	8.3	Directing	Director, Storyboard Artist	2016

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