
Birthday:
01-28-1974
(51 years)
Birthplace:
Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Biography
Shin Itagaki (板垣 伸, Itagaki Shin, January 28, 1974) is a Japanese animator and anime director. He sometimes uses his name written in kana (いたがき しん). He is from Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.
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Cardfight!! Vanguard Movie: Neon Messiah
Storyboard
event2014 star_border 4.7
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After the events of Link Joker-hen, Takuto Tatsunagi announced an invite-only tournament in a dream, and invited both Aichi and Kai to take part in "Messiah Scramble". The prize being the card named "Messiah", the name of a saviour that was heard in a dream. At the same time, there were many incidents of units disappearing from Vanguard cards throughout the world. Aichi and Kai team up to a confront an enemy that threatens the peace they've just regained. The movie is a prequel to Legion, leading up to Aichi's disappearance.
Gurren Lagann the Movie: Childhood's End
Director
event2008 star_border 7.7
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Simon and Kamina live in an underground city monitored by the village chief. When Simon stumbles upon an artifact and beastmen invade from the surface, Simon and Kamina rebel against them.
WXIII: Patlabor The Movie 3
Key Animation
event2002 star_border 6.5
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Set in the year 2000, when the level of Labor accidents begin to escalate around Tokyo Bay, police detectives Kusumi and Hata are assigned to investigate. What they discover leads to a series of government cover-ups, conspiracy concerning a new biological weapon entitled WXIII-Wasted Thirteen and a tragic, personal connection to Hata. The only hope to stop this threat is to cooperate with the military and lead WXIII into a showdown with the Labors of Special Vehicle Division 2.
Ark IX
Director
event2013 star_border 4
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The world has been divided into two halves by a giant wall to prevent the epidemic of "Dark mist". In order to shelter the refugees, artificial cities called "Arks" were built. Shido Enishi is a private detective, who works at the ninth Ark. One day, he is asked to capture a burglar. The seemingly simple case leads him to a great conspiracy.
Case Closed: The Fourteenth Target
Key Animation
event1998 star_border 7.2
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Ran’s secret past revealed! Ten years ago, something happened between her mom and dad. Now, plagued by nightmares, Ran is starting to remember… Meanwhile, a murderous card dealer breaks out of jail to seek revenge. His target: Ran’s father. Can Conan stop him in time and save his girlfriend’s family?
Devil May Cry
Director (1 ep.)
event2007 star_border 7.5
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The adventures of the demon hunter Dante who himself is half demon and half human.
Teekyu
Script (108 ep.)
event2012 star_border 5.7
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The series follows the hilarious everyday routines of four girls in the Kameido High tennis club who, on occasion, actually play some tennis.
Rosario + Vampire
Director (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 7.9
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An ordinary high school boy fails to get into any private academy except one — which happens to be populated by supernatural creatures disguised as humans. To survive, he has to pretend that he is one of them and blend in.
Gurren Lagann
Key Animation (1 ep.)
event2007 star_border 8.2
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In the distant future, mankind has lived quietly and restlessly underground for hundreds of years, subject to earthquakes and cave-ins. Living in one such village are 2 young men: one named Simon who is shy and naïve, and the other named Kamina who believes in the existence of a “surface” world above their heads.
Usakame
Series Director (12 ep.)
event2016 star_border 4.6
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The girls of the Usakame High tennis club, Kinako Tanaka, Ayako Suzuki, Kurumi Satou, and Nishi Nishiarai-Taishi, pursue their various dreams... The series depicts the mostly ordinary but slightly strange daily lives of four girls who devote themselves to practice.
So I'm a Spider, So What?
Series Director (24 ep.)
event2021 star_border 7.9
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I, the protagonist, was just an ordinary high school girl, but suddenly I was reincarnated as a spider monster in a fantasy world. Not only that, but I awakened in a dungeon filled with vicious monsters. Armed with only my human knowledge and my overwhelming positivity, I'm forced to use spiderwebs and traps to defeat far stronger monsters just to stay alive... So begins the labyrinth survival story of a girl with incredible mental strength living as one of the lowest-ranked beasts!
Takamiya Nasuno Desu! Teekyu Spinoff
Director (12 ep.)
event2015 star_border 7
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A spin-off from Teekyuu which centers on the daily life of Nasuno Takamiya, the "exceedingly airheaded" school tennis club member in Teekyuu, and her friends.
Queen's Blade: Vanquished Queens
Director (12 ep.)
event2013 star_border 3.3
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Depicts the defeat and humiliation of the heroines of Queen's Blade, the "Beauty Warriors".
Cop Craft
Series Director (12 ep.)
event2019 star_border 6.9
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15 years ago, an unknown hyperspace gate opened over the Pacific. Beyond this gate lies Reto Semaani, a strange alternate world where fairies and monsters live.
San Teresa City—a city where over two million immigrants live from both worlds. As a result, there are the haves and the have-nots. Here is the world's newest "city of dreams." But in the shadow of the chaos, crime is rampant: drugs, prostitution, and weapon trafficking. The detectives who stand up to these heinous crimes are in the San Teresa City Police. When the detective Kei Matoba and the alternate-world knight Tirana—two individuals who differ in gender, personality, and even world of origin—meet, an incident erupts. Two worlds. Two justices. From this, the curtain rises on a buddy police action story!
Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine
Storyboard (1 ep.)
event2012 star_border 7.4
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She’s a thief. A killer. A saint and a scandal. She’s whatever you need her to be to get the job done. She takes your breath away to get what she wants. She takes everything else just because she can. It’s all in a night’s work for the woman called Fujiko Mine. She’s the slinky, sultry thread that holds Lupin III’s crew together—and this is the heist that started it all.
Michiko & Hatchin
Director (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 6.7
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Hana is a nine-year-old girl who lives in constant fear of her abusive family; Michiko is a sexy woman who has just done the unthinkable: broken out of the impenetrable Diamandra Penitentiary. After Hana is whisked away by Michiko, who claims to be her mother, the duo sets forth on a high octane ride towards freedom. In the streets of Brazil and aboard Michiko's motorcycle, Hana and Michiko will look for Hana's long lost father, try to learn to co-exist and get along together, and stay one step ahead of the police and afro-clad Atsuko.
Berserk
Series Director (24 ep.)
event2016 star_border 7.5
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Spurred by the flame raging in his heart, the Black Swordsman Guts continues his seemingly endless quest for revenge. Standing in his path are heinous outlaws, delusional evil spirits, and a devout child of god. Even as it chips away at his life, Guts continues to fight his enemies, who wield repulsive and inhumane power, with nary but his body and sword—his strength as a human.
Late Night! The Genius Bakabon
Key Animation (1 ep.)
event2018 star_border 6
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Tensai Bakabon has been off the airwaves for almost 20 years! What's a Papa to do in dire times like the late 2010s? How about break every rule in the anime books, throw in celebrity guests, and take a nonsensical peek into the little things in modern life like otome games, blind dates, and the possibility that a series from the Showa era could make it to now! Is this really how it should be?!
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
Scenario Writer (1 ep.)
event2010 star_border 7.4
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Panty and Stocking are nasty angels who were banished from the pearly gates for being foul-mouthed bad girls! Now they spend their days hunting ghosts in the lecherous abyss between Heaven and Earth. Panty likes sex, Stocking likes sweets, and their afro-sporting main man Garterbelt has a fetish we can't mention.
Fighting Spirit
Key Animation (5 ep.)
event2000 star_border 8.7
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Makunouchi Ippo is an ordinary high school student in Japan. Since he spends most of his time away from school helping his mother run the family business, he doesn't get to enjoy his younger years like most teenagers. Always a target for bullying at school (the family fishing business grants him a distinct odor), Ippo's life is one of hardship. One of these after-school bullying sessions turns Ippo's life around for the better, as he is saved by a boxer named Takamura. He decides to follow in Takamura's footsteps and train to become a boxer, giving his life direction and purpose. Ippo's path to perfecting his pugilistic prowess is just beginning...
Black Cat
Storyboard Artist (12 ep.)
event2005 star_border 7.5
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The bounty hunter Sven is barely scraping by when he crosses paths with the Black Cat (a.k.a. Train Heartnet) and the young bio-weapon Eve. The three new companions will need more than luck to survive when they find themselves sought by both the Chronos Numbers and a Taoist revolutionary group called the Apostles of the Star.
I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in the Real World, Too
Series Director (13 ep.)
event2023 star_border 8.2
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A door to another world stretches out before a boy who's been brutally bullied all his life. This alternate reality grants him access to all sorts of things, like cheat skills and a portal that lets him travel between his old and new worlds! Can this class loser turn his life around back home...?
Sengoku BASARA: Samurai Kings
Key Animation (2 ep.)
event2009 star_border 6.3
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During the Sengoku period, there are many factions constantly at war. One of these is led by a one-eyed man named Date Masamune and another by the imposing Takeda Shingen. The latter has a fiercely loyal subordinate named Sanada Yukimura who goes head to head against Date Masamune multiple times, but the battles between them tend to get interrupted. One such battle occurs when both men try to go after another leader named Imagawa, and they’re forced to break off their heated duel when Imagawa attempts to flee the scene with his body doubles. Yukimura and Masamune go after separate Imagawas, but all of the doubles are killed by a third party, and when their paths cross again, they are in front of the menacing Oda Nobunaga and his army. It was Nobunaga’s subordinates that killed those body doubles, and Nobunaga himself proceeds to kill the real Imagawa with a shotgun blast to the head.
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi
Key Animation (4 ep.)
event2002 star_border 6.8
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Two kids whose families own businesses in a shopping arcade that's scheduled to shut down are thrown into a series of dimensions, each one a parody of some form of anime or video game, and try to find their way home.
Gunbuster
Key Animation (1 ep.)
event1988 star_border 7.7
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In the near future, humanity has taken its first steps towards journeying into the far reaches of the galaxy. Upon doing so they discover a huge race of insectoid aliens known as "Space Monsters." These aliens seem dedicated to the eradication of mankind as they near closer and closer to discovering Earth. In response, humanity develops giant fighting robots piloted by hand-picked youth from around the world. Shortly after the discovery of the aliens, Noriko Takaya, the daughter of a famous deceased space captain, enters a training school despite her questionable talents as a pilot. There, she meets her polar opposite, the beautiful and talented Kazumi Amano, and is unexpectedly made to work together with her as they attempt to overcome the trauma of war as well as their own emotions.
Red Garden
Key Animation (1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 4.8
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Four students of the same age have nothing in common except that they attend the same elite New York City school. Kate, Rose, Claire and Rachel all belong to different cliques and hardly notice each other's existence. Then one day they gain something in common, something very important, something mysterious. They find themselves drawn together by the death of a fellow student and the secret of their own missing memories. Suddenly they are thrown into a world of hidden warfare on the city streets and are caught up in secrets which would not be believed by others. These four all have their own problems to struggle with, things that seem more important than such strange conflicts. Can they escape from this fate? The only thing they know is that despite coming from four different worlds they now have to rely on each other or die without a hope.
Kids on the Slope
Key Animation (1 ep.)
event2012 star_border 7.8
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Two different students - a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent - form a friendship through their love for music.
Chobits
Key Animation (1 ep.)
event2002 star_border 8.2
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Tokyo is abuzz with persocoms – humanoid computers that are virtually perfect. The socially and technologically inept Hideki is dying to get his hands on one. When he finds Chii abandoned in the trash, she’s cuter than any current model he’s ever seen before. But when he gets her home and turns her on, she has no data and only a single learning program installed. While Hideki puts his whole heart into teaching Chii the ins and outs of humanity, a mystery unfolds as a dark secret within her awakens.
Ulysses: Jeanne d'Arc and the Alchemist Knight
Series Director (12 ep.)
event2018 star_border 7.3
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The story is set in the 15th century, during the Hundred Years' War between France and England over the succession to the French throne. Montmorency, the son of a noble, immerses himself in the studies of magic and alchemy at a royal knight training school. However, following France's crushing defeat at Agincourt, the school is dissolved. Having lost everything and now a wanted man, Montmorency, who had just become an alchemist, encounters a mysterious village girl named Jehanne.
Basquash!
Storyboard Artist (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 8.2
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Moving to the moon means a new life — one with fame, fortune, and medical treatments for his sister. When he crashes a Bigfoot Basketball game and revolutionizes the sport, has he finally found his chance?
OKITSURA: Fell in Love with an Okinawan Girl, but I Just Wish I Know What She's Saying
Series Director (12 ep.)
event2025 star_border 8
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When Teruaki Nakamura transfers to laid-back Okinawa, he falls for the lively Kyan-san—but her dialect is a complete mystery to him. With Higa-san translating, Teru's misunderstanding-filled island life takes off... and subtle hints suggest Higa-san might want his heart too. On this serene island, love flows as freely as the ocean breeze!
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