Ei Aoki

Ei Aoki (あおきえい, Aoki Ei; born 1973) is a Japanese storyboard artist and director. He credits the anime Megazone 23 as his inspiration to have a career in animation.^[2] In 2013, he created the animation studio Troyca with Toshiyuki Nagano and Tomonobu Kato,^[3] which began animation production on its first work in the fall of 2014. Aoki is the director behind Girls Bravo, The Garden of Sinners: Overlooking View, Ga-Rei: Zero, Wandering Son, Fate/Zero, Aldnoah.Zero, Re:Creators, and Id:Invaded.

Born1973 (age 52–53)^[1]

Tokyo, Japan

OccupationsStoryboard artist, director

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Year	Title	Crew role	Notes	Ref.
2004–2005	Girls Bravo series	Director	2 seasons	^[4]^[5]
2008	Ga-Rei: Zero	Director		^[6]
2011	Wandering Son	Director		^[7]
2011–2012	Fate/Zero series	Director	2 seasons	^[8]
2014–2015	Aldnoah.Zero series	Director	2 seasons	^[9]
2017	Re:Creators	Director		^[10]
2018–2023	Idolish7 series	Supervisor	3 seasons	^[11]
2018	Bloom Into You	Storyboard artist	Episode 6	^[12]
2019	The Case Files of Lord El-Melloi II: Rail Zeppelin Grace Note	Supervisor		^[13]
2020	Id:Invaded	Director		^[14]
2022	Sabikui Bisco	Storyboard artist	Episode 11	^[15]
2022	Shinobi no Ittoki	Storyboard artist	Episode 11	^[16]
2023	Overtake!	Director		^[17]
2024	Atri: My Dear Moments	Storyboard artist	3 episodes	^[18]
2026	Iron Wok Jan	Director		^[19]
TBA	Special Kid Factory	Supervisor		^[20]

Year	Title	Crew role	Ref.
2007	The Garden of Sinners: Overlooking View	Director	^[22]
2008	The Garden of Sinners: Remaining Sense of Pain	Assistant unit director
2013	The Garden of Sinners: Future Gospel – Extra Chorus	Director, writer	^[23]

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