Chiaki Kon

Chiaki Kon (今 千秋, Kon Chiaki, born September 29) is a Japanese anime director. She is known for directing the anime adaptations of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai, Umineko no Naku Koro ni, Junjō Romantica, and both The World’s Greatest First Love series. She has also directed episodes of various notable series, including Nodame Cantabile, Bleach, Twelve Kingdoms and Hetalia: Axis Powers. She also worked the storyboard and dramatization for the anime Midori Days and did the opening animation for Shōnen Onmyōji. She is also the director of Golden Time, the third & fourth season of Sailor Moon Crystal, and Back Street Girls.

Chiaki Kon
Born
OccupationDirector
Years active1998-present

Filmography

Shows

YearShowSeasonEpisodesRoleNote
2004Midori Days11-13Storyboard, Dramatization
2004Bleach115, 33Storyboard, Episode Director
2006Higurashi no Naku Koro ni126Series Director, Storyboard (eps. 1, 3, 15, 25-26), Episode Director (1, 11, 26)
2007Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai224Series Director, Unit Director, Storyboard (eps. 2, 11, 24), Episode Director (eps. 2, 19, 24)
2008Junjō Romantica11-12Director
2008 Nodame Cantabile: Paris11-11Director, Episode Director (ED; eps. 1-2, 10), Storyboard (OP,ED; eps. 1, 10)
2009Hanasakeru Seishōnen11-23Director
2010Otome Yōkai Zakuro11-13Director, Storyboard (OP; eps. 1, 6), Episode Director (OP,ED; ep. 1)
2010 Nodame Cantabile: Finale11-11Director, Episode Director (OP,ED; eps. 3, 8, 11), Storyboard (OP,ED; eps. 3, 11)
2011The World’s Greatest First Love11-12Director, Storyboard & Unit Director (OP,ED)
2011The World’s Greatest First Love 211-12Director, Script (eps. 12)
2011Chihayafuru123Storyboard (eps. 23)
2013Hetalia The Beautiful World11-4, 11-13Episode Director (1-4), Storyboard (1-4, 11-13)
2013Golden Time11-24Director, Episode Director (eps. 6, 22, 24), Storyboard (OP 1 and 2; eps. 20, 22, 24)
2014HappinessCharge PreCure!124Storyboard (eps. 24)
2016Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal Season III11-13Director, Episode Director & Storyboard (OP,ED; eps. 1, 7, 13)[1][2]
2016Naruto Shippuden1484-488Director, Episode Director & Storyboard (eps. 484, 488)17th season
2017Kirakira PreCure a la Mode117, 34Storyboard (eps. 17, 34)
2017Boruto: Naruto Next Generations13, 9, 11, 16, 23, 25Storyboard (eps. 3, 9, 11, 16, 23, 25)
2018Back Street Girls11-10Director, Episode Director (eps. 1-10), Storyboard (OP; eps. 1-10)[3]
2020Mewkledreamy11-2, 10Project Consultant, Episode Director & Storyboard (eps. 1-2), Script (eps. 10)[4]

Films

Year Film Role Note
2014 The World’s Greatest First Love: The Case of Takafumi Yokozawa Director, Script
2014 The World’s Greatest First Love: Valentine arc Director
2014 HappinessCharge PreCure! the Movie: The Ballerina of the Land of Dolls Director
2018 Tokimeki Restaurant: Miracle 6 Director
2021 Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal: The Movie -Part 1&2- Director 2-Part Film,
Season 4 of Sailor Moon Crystal[5][6][7][8]

OVA

Year OVA Role Note
2007 When Cicadas Cry Extra - Cat Killing Chapter Director Co-Directed with Shunji Yashida
2012 Junjo Romantica Director
2020 The World’s Greatest First Love: Proposal arc Supervisor
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gollark: Apparently this tends to improve with scale. I'm not sure if the details of Delphi are available anywhere.
gollark: Or, well, my rough model of that.
gollark: It's evidently not quite a magic 8 ball because it generally appears to agree with random humans' judgement.
gollark: I'd assume they took some kind of pretrained language model and finetuned it on crowdsourced scenario/response pairs.

References

  1. "アニメ『美少女戦士セーラームーンCrystal』第3期 <デス・バスターズ編>今春スタート! キャスト発表は1/27ニコ生で!". Sailor Moon Official (in Japanese). 2016-01-08. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
  2. Pineda, Rafael Antonio (2016-01-08). "3rd Season of Sailor Moon Crystal Spring Premiere, New Staff Revealed". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
  3. Sherman, Jennifer (2018-05-28). "Back Street Girls TV Anime Reveals Main Cast, July 3 Premiere". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2018-05-28.
  4. "サンリオ新作アニメ「ミュークルドリーミー」追加キャストに豊崎愛生、釘宮理恵ら". Comic Natalie (in Japanese). 2020-01-31. Retrieved 2020-01-31.
  5. "「美少女戦士セーラームーン Crystal」第 4 期<デッド・ムーン編>". Sailor Moon Official (in Japanese). 2017-06-30. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  6. Hodgkins, Crystalyn (2017-06-30). "Sailor Moon Crystal Anime's 4th Season Revealed as 2-Part Film Project". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  7. Hodgkins, Crystalyn (2019-06-30). "Sailor Moon Eternal 2-Part Anime Film Project Opens in 2020". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2019-06-30.
  8. Hodgkins, Crystalyn (2020-06-18). "1st Sailor Moon Eternal Film Delayed to January 8 with 2nd Film Scheduled for February 11". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2020-06-18.


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