Tatsuya Ishihara | |
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Nationality | Japanese |
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Years active | 1987–present |
Employer | Kyoto Animation |
Tatsuya Ishihara (Japanese: 石原 立也, Hepburn: Ishihara Tatsuya, born July 31, 1966) is a Japanese animator, television and film director. Working for Kyoto Animation since 1988,[1] he has directed The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Clannad, Nichijou, Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions and Sound! Euphonium.
Ishihara graduated from Osaka Designer College[2]
.His first credit as an episode director was for the 1995 episode of Tenchi Universe titled "No Need for Worries!". In 2021, he replaced Yasuhiro Takemoto as the director for Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid S, following the latter's death during the Kyoto Animation arson attack.