Koichi Chigira

Biography

Koichi Chigira is an anime director who has directed several series, usually working with Studio GONZO and has begun his career at Madhouse. Chigira is known for directing Full Metal Panic and Last Exile.

Known ForDirecting

BornMay 4, 1959 (67)

Place of BirthKanagawa, Japan

Urusei Yatsura

2022

Director

Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer

2022

Storyboard Artist

SPRIGGAN

2022

Storyboard Artist

Movie

"Please Describe Yourself in One Word": I'm Bad at the Question.

2022

Director

Cagaster of an Insect Cage

2020

Series Director

Movie

Full Metal Panic! 3rd Section: Into the Blue

2018

Screenplay

Movie

Full Metal Panic! 2nd Section: One Night Stand

2018

Screenplay

Movie

Full Metal Panic! 1st Section: Boy Meets Girl

2017

Screenplay

18if

2017

Director

Movie

Last Exile: Ginyoku no Fam Movie - Over the Wishes

2016

Director

Luck & Logic

2016

Director

Blade and Soul

2014

Storyboard Artist

Movie

Ryo

2013

Screenplay

Movie

A Certain Magical Index: The Miracle of Endymion

2013

Storyboard Artist

Chihayafuru

2011

Storyboard Artist

Shangri-La

2009

Key Animation

Movie

Tower of Druaga: The Aegis of Uruk - Jil's Adventure

2008

Director

The Tower of Druaga: The Aegis of Uruk

2008

Director

Movie

Brave Story

2006

Storyboard Artist

Last Exile

2003

Series Director

Witch Hunter Robin

2002

Storyboard Artist

Movie

Full Metal Panic!

2002

Director

Full Metal Panic!

2002

Series Composition

Pecola

2001

Storyboard

Gate Keepers

2000

Director

Movie

Detective Conan: The Last Wizard of the Century

1999

Key Animation

Blue Submarine No. 6

1998

Director

Popolocrois Monogatari

1998

Storyboard Artist

Movie

Welcome to Lodoss Island!

1998

Director

Movie

Case Closed: The Fourteenth Target

1998

Key Animation

Hyper Police

1997

Storyboard Artist

Movie

X

1996

Key Animation

Rurouni Kenshin

1996

Storyboard Artist

Movie

Anne Frank's Diary

1995

Key Animation

Magic Knight Rayearth

1994

Director

Phantom Quest Corp.

1994

Director

Movie

Bronze: Cathexis Koji Nanjo

1994

Storyboard Artist

Movie

Tokyo Babylon 2

1994

Director

Natsuki Crisis

1994

Director

Movie

Sleepless Oedo

1993

Director

Movie

Ninja Scroll

1993

Key Animation

Movie

Tokyo Babylon 1

1992

Director

Tokyo Babylon

1992

Director

Doomed Megalopolis

1991

Director

Movie

Urusei Yatsura: Always My Darling

1991

Key Animation

Movie

A Wind Named Amnesia

1990

Key Animation

Movie

Nineteen 19

1990

Director

The Enemy's the Pirates!

1990

Animation Director

Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket

1989

Key Animation

Movie

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack

1988

Key Animation

Yotoden: Chronicle of the Warlord Period

1987

Key Animation

Kimagure Orange Road

1987

Animation Director

Movie

Dirty Pair: Project Eden

1986

Key Animation

Movie

Love City

1986

Key Animation

The Legend of Lyon: Flare

1986

Key Animation

Movie

Arion

1986

Key Animation

Lupin the 3rd

1971

Writer