Mitsuo Fukuda

Mitsuo Fukuda is a Japanese animation director and scriptwriter from Tochigi Prefecture. He was married to anime screenwriter Chiaki Morosawa until her death in 2016.

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Career

Fukuda is a graduate of Waseda Senior High School. While in school, he was a member of the manga research society. After graduating from high school, he joined Sunrise in 1979 at the age of 19. He calls himself a disciple of Takeyuki Kanda, who directed Ginga Hyōryū Vifam, Choriki Robo Galatt, and Metal Armor Dragonar among others.
For the OVA series Future GPX Cyber Formula SAGA, Fukuda selected his wife, Chiaki Morosawa, who had been a family friend to talk with about work, to write the scripts, and since then, he has entrusted series composition to Morosawa for almost all of the works he has directed.
Fukuda's major works include Future GPX Cyber Formula, Gear Fighter Dendoh and the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED series. Although he has been on a freelance basis since Dragonar, when he turned to directing, his participation in other companies' productions has been very limited, with the majority of his work being Sunrise productions. He has a close relationship with Takayuki Yoshii, former president and chairman of Sunrise, and Naotake Furusato, former producer at Sunrise, and most of his career has been spent participating in their works and series. In addition, as mentioned above, most of Morosawa's participation has been limited to works directed by Fukuda, but Furusato was the producer of Outlaw Star, the only series in which Morosawa participated that was not directed by Fukuda.

Works

TV anime

Invincible Robo Trider G7 - Setting production
Saikyō Robo Daiōja - Setting manager
Choriki Robo Galatt - Setting production
Dirty Pair - Setting production
Metal Armor Dragonar - Episode director, storyboards
Mashin Hero Wataru - Episode director, storyboards
Madö King Granzört - Episode director, storyboards
Brave Exkaiser - Chief unit director, episode director, storyboards
Future GPX Cyber Formula - Director, episode director, storyboards
The Brave Fighter of Legend Da-Garn - Storyboards, episode director
Mobile Suit Victory Gundam - Storyboards
Wild Knights Gulkeeva - Storyboards
Gear Fighter Dendoh - Chief director, storyboards, episode director
Crush Gear Turbo - Chief 3D unit director, storyboards
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED - Director, episode director, storyboards
*Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Special Edition - Director, unit director, storyboards
*Mobile Suit Gundam SEED HD Remaster - Director, episode director, storyboards, key animation
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny - Director, episode director, storyboards
*Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny: Special Edition - Director, unit director, storyboards
*Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny HD Remaster - Director, episode director, storyboards
Cross Ange - Creative producer, storyboards, mechanical unit director
Cestvs: The Roman Fighter - Storyboards
Grendizer U - '''Chief director'''

Movies

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom - Director/'''Co-Writer'''

OVA

Future GPX Cyber Formula 11 - Chief director, original story, script, storyboards, episode director
Future GPX Cyber Formula ZERO - Chief director, original story, script, storyboards, episode director
Private Eye Dol - Director
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team - Promo storyboards
Super Atragon - Director, storyboards
Future GPX Cyber Formula EARLYDAYS RENEWAL - Director, script, episode director
Future GPX Cyber Formula SAGA - Chief director, original story, storyboards, episode director
Future GPX Cyber Formula SIN - Chief director, original story, storyboards, episode director

Web anime

Megohime Animation - DirectorBlade of the Immortal - Storyboards Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise - Storyboards, episode director Gundam Build Real - Action storyboards

Games

Busou Shinki: Battle Masters Mk.2 - Opening storyboards, supervision

Novels

''Future GPX Cyber Formula SAGA''