Ayumu Watanabe
Biography
Ayumu Watanabe (渡辺 歩, Watanabe Ayumu, September 3, 1966) is a Japanese animation director, animator, and director born in Tokyo. He also worked under the alias Kakeru Watanabe (渡辺 カケル, Watanabe Kakeru).
Known For
Komi Can't Communicate
Series Director
Witch Hat Atelier
Series Director
Summer Time Rendering
Series Director
Children of the Sea
Director
Great Pretender
Storyboard Artist
Azumanga Daioh
Storyboard Artist
Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur
Director
Mysterious Girlfriend X
Director
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Filmography
Crew (50)
Movies (26)
Witch Hat Atelier
2026Director
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko
2021Director
Children of the Sea
2019Director
Space Brothers #0
2014Director
The Big First-Grader and the Small Second-Grader
2014Director
Doraemon: The New Record of Nobita's Spaceblazer
2009Mechanical Designer
Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend
2008Director
Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend
2008Storyboard Artist
Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur
2006Director
Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur
2006Screenplay
Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey
2004Supervising Animation Director
Pa-Pa-Pa the Movie: Perman: Tako de Pon! Ashi wa Pon!
2004Director
Pa-Pa-Pa the Movie: Perman: Tako de Pon! Ashi wa Pon!
2004Screenplay
Doraemon: Nobita and the Windmasters
2003Supervising Animation Director
Pa-Pa-Pa the Movie: Perman
2003Director
Pa-Pa-Pa the Movie: Perman
2003Screenplay
Doraemon: The Day When I Was Born
2002Director
Doraemon: Ganbare! Gian!!
2001Director
Doraemon: A Grandmother's Recollections
2000Director
Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding
1999Director
Doraemon Comes Back
1998Director
Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds
1992Animation Director
Dorami-chan: Wow, The Kid Gang of Bandits / The☆Doraemons: Strange, Sweets, Strange? / Doraemon: Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding
1991Director
Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan
1989Key Animation
Doraemon: The Record of Nobita's Parallel Journey to the West
1988Key Animation
Freedom in the Sky
Director
Television (24)
Witch Hat Atelier
2026Series Director
Witch Hat Atelier
2026Storyboard Artist
Akane-banashi
2026Additional Storyboarding
Akane-banashi
2026Series Director
Akane-banashi
2026Storyboard Artist
Ganglion
2025Series Director
You are Ms. Servant
2024Series Director
You are Ms. Servant
2024Sound Director
You are Ms. Servant
2024Storyboard Artist
Summer Time Rendering
2022Series Director
Summer Time Rendering
2022Storyboard Artist
Komi Can't Communicate
2021Series Director
Great Pretender
2020Storyboard Artist
After the Rain
2018Series Director
After the Rain
2018Storyboard Artist
Major 2nd
2018Series Director
Gurazeni: Money Pitch
2018Director
Ace Attorney
2016Series Director
Ace Attorney
2016Storyboard Artist
If Her Flag Breaks
2014Director
Space Brothers
2012Series Director
Space Brothers
2012Storyboard Artist
Mysterious Girlfriend X
2012Director
Azumanga Daioh
2002Storyboard Artist
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