Motoki Tanaka

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Motoki Tanaka

Born June 7, 1976 · Chiba Prefecture, Japan (age 50)

Motoki Tanaka (田中 基樹, Tanaka Motoki, June 7, 1976), also known as Tensho (天衝, Tenshō), is a Japanese director, animator, and storyboarder from Chiba Prefecture. After working at White Fox, he became freelance and currently is the representative of Bibury Animation Studios.

Known For

Kinmoza! Pretty DaysKinmoza! Pretty Days · 2016
Kinmoza! Pretty Days
6.22016
MovieComedyAnimation
One of the best parts about being in a group of friends is that you usually have a couple of guardian angels watching over you. So, when Shinobu has to both write a script as well as make costumes for a play for the school festival, it doesn't take long for her classmates to realize that someone might have bitten off more than she can chew. Or write and sew, in this case. Fortunately for Shinobu's theatrical future, Alice, Yoko, and Aya are glad to pitch in, and that allows for a chance to reflect on their experiences in the days before Alice arrived. Will everything be finished in time, or will the audience be in stitches because of the ones coming apart onstage? There's no way to be sure until the last curtain call!
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation - Soul SpeedGrisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation - Soul Speed · 2019
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation - Soul Speed
5.92019
MovieActionAnimation
Following the Heath Oslo incident, the existence of the US-Japanese anti-terror organization CIRS has become a matter of public knowledge. CIRS has been rebuilt from the ground up, and its most covert functions spun off to a new agency: SORD (Social Ops, Research & Development). The goal of SORD is to train a new generation of operatives to defend the country against future threats. To that end, the organization has established a series of schools up and down the country. Mihama Academy, more-or-less left to rot after its abrupt closure, has been given new purpose as one such 'specialist training school'. It now entrusts the misfit girls who attend it with guns and live ammunition. No matter how much life grinds them down, what future awaits these girls, who've themselves chosen the path of the gun?
The Labyrinth of GrisaiaThe Labyrinth of Grisaia · 2015
The Labyrinth of Grisaia
5.42015
MovieAnimationDrama
Yuuji makes the unexpected decision to pursue promotion within the institution he works for. He meets with JB to discuss the documents he submitted for review as a part of the promotion process, documents pertaining to his own past.
Is the Order a Rabbit? The Movie: We Are Family!Is the Order a Rabbit? The Movie: We Are Family!
Is the Order a Rabbit? The Movie: We Are Family!
MovieAnimationComedy
New feature film in the Is the Order a Rabbit? franchise.
High School DxDHigh School DxD · 2012
High School DxD
8.52012
SeriesAnimationAction & Adventure
Issei Hyodo is your average perverted high school student whose one wish in life is to have his own harem, but he's got to be one of the unluckiest guys around. He goes on his first date with a girl only to get brutally attacked and killed when it turns out the girl is really a vicious fallen angel. To top it all off, he's later reincarnated as a devil by his gorgeous senpai who tells him that she is also a devil and now his master! One thing's for sure, his peaceful days are over. In a battle between devils and angels, who will win?
UtawarerumonoUtawarerumono · 2006
Utawarerumono
7.22006
SeriesAnimationAction & Adventure
Hakuoro has lost his memory after succumbing to serious injuries. But thanks to an elderly woman and her granddaughter Eruruu, he is nursed back to health. His face is covered by a strange irremovable mask and he occasionally sees beastly visions. Eruruu now cares for him as he becomes accustomed to the village and its inhabitants, who all bear strange ears (the women also have tails). Though these people venerate the forces of nature, desecration of an altar forces them to take drastic measures to preserve their lives from the wrath of Mutikapa-sama, guardian of the forest.
The Fruit of GrisaiaThe Fruit of Grisaia · 2014
The Fruit of Grisaia
6.72014
SeriesAnimationDrama
Mihama Academy—on the surface, a closed learning environment established to nurture students who find themselves at odds with the world around them; in actuality, an orchard-cum-prison built to preserve fruit that has fallen too far from its tree. Yet with the arrival of the institute's first male student, the nearly preposterously opaque Kazami Yuuji, the students at Mihama begin to fall out of step with their predetermined rhythms. Will Yuuji prove to be the element the girls around him needed to take hold of their lives once more, or will the weight of their pasts prove too steep a wall to overcome?
RahXephonRahXephon · 2002
RahXephon
7.32002
SeriesAnimationSci-Fi & Fantasy
Ayato Kamina, a 17-year-old high school student, lives in Tokyo Jupiter oblivious to the world around him, having been raised to believe that the rest of civilization has been destroyed; but everything changes when a mysterious alien civilization invades his home.

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Kinmoza! Pretty DaysKinmoza! Pretty Days · 2016
Kinmoza! Pretty Days
6.22016
MovieComedyAnimation
One of the best parts about being in a group of friends is that you usually have a couple of guardian angels watching over you. So, when Shinobu has to both write a script as well as make costumes for a play for the school festival, it doesn't take long for her classmates to realize that someone might have bitten off more than she can chew. Or write and sew, in this case. Fortunately for Shinobu's theatrical future, Alice, Yoko, and Aya are glad to pitch in, and that allows for a chance to reflect on their experiences in the days before Alice arrived. Will everything be finished in time, or will the audience be in stitches because of the ones coming apart onstage? There's no way to be sure until the last curtain call!

Storyboard Artist

Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation - Soul SpeedGrisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation - Soul Speed · 2019
Grisaia: Phantom Trigger the Animation - Soul Speed
5.92019
MovieActionAnimation
Following the Heath Oslo incident, the existence of the US-Japanese anti-terror organization CIRS has become a matter of public knowledge. CIRS has been rebuilt from the ground up, and its most covert functions spun off to a new agency: SORD (Social Ops, Research & Development). The goal of SORD is to train a new generation of operatives to defend the country against future threats. To that end, the organization has established a series of schools up and down the country. Mihama Academy, more-or-less left to rot after its abrupt closure, has been given new purpose as one such 'specialist training school'. It now entrusts the misfit girls who attend it with guns and live ammunition. No matter how much life grinds them down, what future awaits these girls, who've themselves chosen the path of the gun?

Director

KatanagatariKatanagatari · 2010
Katanagatari
7.32010
SeriesAnimationAction & Adventure
The legendary swordsmith Kiki Shikizaki created 1,000 swords in his career. The more of the swords a country owns, the higher its chances are at winning a war. When the shogun emerged victorious, he collected 988 swords, but these were merely the “practice pieces”. The last twelve swords were the crowning achievements of Kiki’s career. Each one of them is so powerful that a single man could defeat an army with it. Togame, the shogun’s strategist, gets the order to collect these swords. At first she hired a ninja, but each of the swords’ value is so high that the entire ninja clan went rogue once they got hold of one. She then put her trust in another warrior, but he kept the sword for himself. Her final hope now is Shichika, the seventh and last student of the Kyotoryuu School.

Storyboard Artist

Tears to TiaraTears to Tiara · 2009
Tears to Tiara
8.22009
SeriesAnimationSci-Fi & Fantasy
Set in a fictitious land during a medieval-like era of magic and fantasy, Tears to Tiara unfolds with the Divine Empire’s rise to power as it conquers and rules lands far and wide. On the island of Erin, still ruled by the Ancient Kingdom, the Goidelic people are attempting to sacrifice priestess Riannon to revive protagonist and demon king Arawn to lead the resistance against the Empire. Although the ritual fails and Riannon survives, the seal imprisoning the demon king is broken and Arawn is resurrected. Armed with mysterious and devastating powers and a human’s demeanour, Arawn joins Riannon, her brother and battalion commander, Arthur, as well as their team of fighters comprising a swordsman, an archer and a quintet of magical pixies, in the epic struggle against the Divine Empire.

Director