Shinichi Watanabe

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Shinichi Watanabe

Born September 6, 1964 · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan (age 61)

Shinichi Watanabe (渡邊 慎一 Watanabe Shin'ichi, born September 6, 1964) is a Japanese anime director and voice actor. He is best known for his over-the-top adaptation of Rikdo Koshi's Excel Saga, in which he appears as the character Nabeshin. Watanabe stated that the nickname Nabeshin (which is a combination of 'nabe' in Watanabe and 'shin' in Shinichi) came to him from God. About his unique appeara…

Known For

Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya: Prisma☆PhantasmFate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya: Prisma☆Phantasm · 2019
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya: Prisma☆Phantasm
6.92019
MovieComedyAnimation
From a surreal talk show where a berserker hostess puts her hapless assassin brother co-host through an increasingly grueling wringer, to spicy ramen endurance tests, magical girls gone wild and wholesale gender-swapping for no apparent reason, you've never seen anything like Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya: Prisma☆Phantasm.
Lupin the Third: The Columbus FilesLupin the Third: The Columbus Files · 1999
Lupin the Third: The Columbus Files
6.31999
MovieActionAnimation
When Fujiko secures a file that documents the location of the fabled Columbus Egg – a mystical relic that controls the weather – she quickly recruits Lupin and the gang to track down the long-lost treasure. Unfortunately, her memory of Lupin and his friends are wiped out almost entirely. Can the gang restore Fujiko’s memory before the Egg falls into the hands of a madman?
eX-Driver: Nina & Rei Danger ZoneeX-Driver: Nina & Rei Danger Zone · 2002
eX-Driver: Nina & Rei Danger Zone
6.02002
MovieActionScience Fiction
The story takes place on a world 100 years in the future, a few years before Lisa and Lorna joined eX-D organization. The world where people drives computer-controlled electrically powered "AI cars" which automatically take you where you want to go. However, one AI car mysteriously start to run amok. Now Nina and Rei, as the main driver for ex-D organization have to solve the mystery behind the AI car with evil plot and trap awaiting for them...
Midnight Crazy TrailMidnight Crazy Trail · 2018
Midnight Crazy Trail
4.02018
MovieAnimationAdventure
Shout and Crunchy are "trash throw away-ers" who work in the dead of night. Makina is a 16-year-old witch who has come to the world of humans and to London to study for one year about how to become a proper bride. But Makina searches for Shout and Crunchy, and begs them to throw away her "Witch's Book." Truthfully, Makina wants to quit being a witch and become a normal girl, and the book is just a hindrance. But the book is not something one can simply just throw away.
Age 17Age 17 · 2003
Age 17
2003
MovieDrama
Seventeen-year-old Ako works part-time in a cabaret club late at night. Because of this, she falls asleep in school every day. In the new semester, she becomes enamored with her classmate Ryou, who is repeating a year despite her good grades.
Super Real Mahjong: Mahjong Battle ScrambleSuper Real Mahjong: Mahjong Battle Scramble · 1990
Super Real Mahjong: Mahjong Battle Scramble
5.01990
MovieAnimation
Mahjong-playing sisters Kasumi, Miki, and Shouko are sent to a world where mahjong tiles are currency. In order to return to their world, they must defeat a mahjong-playing rabbit who rules the land.
The Fearsome MelodyThe Fearsome Melody · 2026
The Fearsome Melody
2026
MovieHorrorTV Movie
A haunted melody, a used record one must possess. At any cost. Adapted from Junji Ito's short story Used Record.
Beast CityBeast City · 1996
Beast City
1996
MovieComedyHorror
The modern age. Albeit tales of strange things have existed in history, even in the current day , in modern cities, things lurk in the night. A trio of female vampires who normally only care about consumption of blood and the occasional lesbian interaction with one another, suddenly come head to head with gangs of demonic "beasts" that ravage and tear their way through the populace. As time goes on, things heat up in more ways than one as the war begins anew between vampires and beasts. Soon Mina, the beautiful red-headed vampire, and her two friends and followers, along with a human boy and girl, will have to fight for us all to survive.

Filmography

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BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense.BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense. · 2020
BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense.
7.42020
SeriesAnimationAction & Adventure
Kaede Honjou is invited by her friend Risa Shiramine to play a virtual reality MMO game with her. While Kaede doesn't dislike games, what she really, truly dislikes is being in pain. She creates a character named Maple, and decides to put all her points in VIT to minimize pain. As a result, she moves slowly, can't use magic, and even a rabbit can get the best of her. But as it turns out, she acquires a skill known as "Absolute Defense" as a result of her pumping points into VIT, as well as a "Counter Skill" that works against special moves. Now, with her ability to nullify all damage, she goes on adventures.

Storyboard Artist

ASSASSINS PRIDEASSASSINS PRIDE · 2019
ASSASSINS PRIDE
6.82019
SeriesAnimationAction & Adventure
In the world only the aristocrats have the power to fight the monster - mana. Even though Melida Angel was born in an aristocracy and studies at an academy developing mana users, she has no mana. To find her talent for mana, Kufa Vampir was sent to be her tutor but at the same time, he was ordered to assassinate her if she has no talent for mana. He makes a cruel decision to assassinate her because he thinks that it is a wasted effort that people who have not any mana are working hard in this world... However, he asks her, "Do you want to try to entrust your life to me?" He is not as an assassin nor a tutor. He is someone betting on his pride as an assassin tutor, to show the world what Melida is capable of!

Storyboard Artist

Tenchi Muyo! GXPTenchi Muyo! GXP · 2002
Tenchi Muyo! GXP
7.12002
SeriesAnimationComedy
Seina is unlucky, so unlucky that when he stumbles upon a recruiter looking for his senpai Tenchi he gets taken instead. Forced into the Galaxy police, his luck begins to change. A natural to randomly jumping near pirates, he is assigned his own decoy to draw out pirates. His luck brings him into the lives of four women who have a habit of cancelling out his bad luck, turning it into good. Armed with this luck, they pilot the most powerful ships in the Tenchi Universe to defeat the Barta pirates. Now the only uncertainty is whether the sexy Kaunaq, a former model turned GXP officer, sturdy Kiriko, who has known Seina for years, the mysterious Ryoko, a former pirate named after the legendary one, or the childish Neiju, a powerful witch, will win Seina.

Director

16bit Sensation: Another Layer16bit Sensation: Another Layer · 2023
16bit Sensation: Another Layer
6.12023
SeriesAnimationComedy
Konoha Akisato is an illustrator that loves beautiful girls and bishojo games. Her dream is to become a super-popular illustrator, so she is working hard at a bishojo game production company, but reality isn't that kind... With the golden age of social network games in full force, Konoha's company isn't doing well, and she works as a sub illustrator, spending her days painting the backs of random background characters. One day, the owner of a game shop gives her a classic bishojo game. With all her excitement over the golden age of bishojo games, she opens the package to "Dokyusei," and is enveloped by a bright light. Konoha then realizes that she just traveled back in time! She ends up in the year 1992! It's the dawn of the bishojo game era! Konoha ends up working at a company called Alcohol Soft. Will she be able to think about, draw, and create all the beautiful girls she’s ever wanted?! A story about a girl and her overwhelming love for beautiful girls—"Now, let's begin!"

Storyboard Artist