Ayumu Watanabe
Directing • AGE 59
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 Kaker...
Filmography
Witch Hat Atelier
Series Director
2026
Akane-banashi
Series Director
2026
Ganglion
Series Director
2025
You are Ms. Servant
Series Director
2024
Summer Time Rendering
Series Director
2022
Komi Can't Communicate
Series Director
2021
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko
Director
2021
Great Pretender
Storyboard Artist
2020
Children of the Sea
Director
2019
Major 2nd
Series Director
2018
Gurazeni: Money Pitch
Director
2018
After the Rain
Series Director
2018
Ace Attorney
Storyboard Artist
2016
Space Brothers: Number Zero
Director
2014
If Her Flag Breaks
Director
2014
The Big First-Grader and the Small Second-Grader
Director
2014
Mysterious Girlfriend X
Director
2012
Space Brothers
Storyboard Artist
2012
Doraemon: The New Record of Nobita's Spaceblazer
Mechanical Designer
2009
Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend
Director
2008
Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur
Director
2006
Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey
Supervising Animation Director
2004
Pa-Pa-Pa the Movie: Perman: Tako de Pon! Ashi wa Pon!
Director
2004
Doraemon: Nobita and the Windmasters
Supervising Animation Director
2003
Pa-Pa-Pa the Movie: Perman
Director
2003
Azumanga Daioh
Storyboard Artist
2002
Doraemon: The Day When I Was Born
Director
2002
Doraemon: Ganbare! Gian!!
Director
2001
Doraemon: A Grandmother's Recollections
Director
2000
Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding
Director
1999
Doraemon Comes Back
Director
1998
Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds
Animation Director
1992
Dorami-chan: Wow, The Kid Gang of Bandits / The☆Doraemons: Strange, Sweets, Strange? / Doraemon: Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding
Director
1991
Doraemon: Nobita and the Birth of Japan
Key Animation
1989
Doraemon: The Record of Nobita's Parallel Journey to the West
Key Animation
1988