Makoto Bessho

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Makoto Bessho

Makoto Bessho (別所 誠人, Bessho Makoto) is a Japanese animator, animation director, storyboard artist, and anime director.

Known For

Bleach the Movie: Memories of NobodyBleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody · 2006
Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody
6.92006
MovieFantasyAnimation
In Karakura Town, unidentifiable spirits begin appearing en mases. While attempting to deal with these strange souls, Ichigo Kurosaki and Rukia Kuchiki meet Senna, a mysterious shinigami who wipes out most of them. Senna refuses to answer any questions, so Ichigo is forced to follow her while Rukia tries to find out what's going on.
Origin: Spirits of the PastOrigin: Spirits of the Past · 2006
Origin: Spirits of the Past
7.02006
MovieAnimationScience Fiction
It is 300 years into the future. Earth's environment had been devastated by mankind's own foolish plans and humankind is beleaguered by the sentient forests which they have awoken. The world balance is tipped when a young boy named Agito stumbles across a machine that glowed in a strange blue hue inside a forbidden sanctuary.
IDOLiSH7 First BEAT! Movie Edition Part 2IDOLiSH7 First BEAT! Movie Edition Part 2 · 2025
IDOLiSH7 First BEAT! Movie Edition Part 2
7.02025
MovieAnimationMusic
Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial ArkSpace Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark · 2014
Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark
7.12014
MovieAnimationAction
2199 AD. Yamato tried to leave behind the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, after receiving a "Cosmo Reverse System" at its destination, Iscandar. However, suddenly, it encounters a mysterious group at the edge of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The crew finds out that the group is called the "Gatlantis," and that its leader is the Gutaba expeditionary force commander who calls himself "Goran Dagaamu of Thunder." The commander demands that Yamato be handed over to him. Yamato, wanting to hurry to Earth, escapes the fray. However, Yamato is attacked by a devastating beam weapon called the "Flame Direct Attack Cannon" that can transcend space.
Brave StoryBrave Story · 2006
Brave Story
6.42006
MovieAnimationAdventure
Jr. High School Student Wataru and his friends like playing in an abandond building and looking for ghosts. However it seems he is not the only one. Another mysterious student Mitsuru shows Wataru that there is a magical door to another world where one can go and get the Goddess of Fortune to grant one wish! When tragedy strikes Wataru's family he decides to open the door for himself.
Exper ZenonExper Zenon · 1991
Exper Zenon
4.21991
MovieScience FictionAction
Zenno, a master gamer, has been offered the chance to play the newly-released game, Expers. But when a naked girl appears in his classroom to give him his Expers Suit, complete with real superpowers, he learns that Expers is not just a simple computer game — it is a real-life kill-or-be-killed PvP (Player versus Player) game. Only the main character of the game can survive until the end — but who is the main character? And, perhaps more importantly, who is controlling the game?
IDOLiSH7 First BEAT! Movie Edition Part 1IDOLiSH7 First BEAT! Movie Edition Part 1 · 2025
IDOLiSH7 First BEAT! Movie Edition Part 1
7.02025
MovieAnimationMusic
ElementalorsElementalors · 1995
Elementalors
6.41995
MovieActionAnimation
In ancient times, minds and spirits dwelled in all the materials on Earth. At the end of a battle these minds dwelling in matter conquered the hostile matter of the enemy and multiplied. Sacred wars gave birth to the Elementalors. Fierce battles between the Elementalors raged continuously in the struggle to create a new utopia.

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Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial ArkSpace Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark · 2014
Space Battleship Yamato 2199: Odyssey of the Celestial Ark
7.12014
MovieAnimationAction
2199 AD. Yamato tried to leave behind the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, after receiving a "Cosmo Reverse System" at its destination, Iscandar. However, suddenly, it encounters a mysterious group at the edge of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The crew finds out that the group is called the "Gatlantis," and that its leader is the Gutaba expeditionary force commander who calls himself "Goran Dagaamu of Thunder." The commander demands that Yamato be handed over to him. Yamato, wanting to hurry to Earth, escapes the fray. However, Yamato is attacked by a devastating beam weapon called the "Flame Direct Attack Cannon" that can transcend space.

Key Animation

ATRI -My Dear Moments-ATRI -My Dear Moments- · 2024
ATRI -My Dear Moments-
7.52024
SeriesAnimationDrama
In the near future, a sudden and unexplained sea rise has left much of human civilization underwater. Ikaruga Natsuki, a boy who lost his mother and one of his legs in an accident some years earlier, returns disillusioned from a harsh life in the big city to find his old countryside home half-swallowed by the sea. Left without a family, all he has to his name is the ship and submarine left to him by his oceanologist grandmother, and her debts. His only hope to restore the dreams for the future that he has lost is to take up an opportunity presented to him by the suspicious debt collector Catherine. They set sail to search the sunken ruins of his grandmother's laboratory in order to find a treasure rumor says she left there. But what they find is not riches or jewels; it is a strange girl lying asleep in a coffin at the bottom of the sea, Atri. Atri is a robot, but her appearance and her wealth of emotions would fool anyone into thinking she's a living, breathing human being.

Storyboard Artist