Mahiro Maeda

Mahiro Maeda Born March 14, 1963 Yonago, Tottori, Japan Occupation Character designer, director, animator First work The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (TV 1982) Notable work The Animatrix (2003)

Mahiro Maeda (前田 真宏,   Maeda Mahiro) is a Japanese anime director, character designer and animator. He has been a top contributor for the animation studio GONZO, which was heavily involved in the design works for the Heisei Gamera film trilogy.

Selected filmography

• Ultraman: The Ultimate Hero (TV 1993) - Monster & mechanical design [with Shinji Higuchi, Toshio Miike]
• Gamera the Guardian of the Universe (1995) - Monster design
• Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (1996) - Monster design [with Shinji Higuchi]
• Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999) - Monster design [with Shinji Higuchi]
• Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo (2012) - Giant God Warrior image design
• Shin Godzilla (2016) - Godzilla image design / image boards [with Yuji Hayashida, Takumi Tanji] / storyboards [with Shinji Higuchi, Hideaki Anno, et al.]
• SSSS.GRIDMAN (TV 2018) - Monster design [episode 12]
• Shin Ultraman (2022) - Monster design

Designed monsters

• Gamera (Gamera the Guardian of the Universe)
• Gyaos (Gamera the Guardian of the Universe)
• Gamera (Gamera 2: Attack of Legion)
• Legion (Gamera 2: Attack of Legion)
• Gamera (Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris)
• Iris (Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris)
• Beta Gamera skeletons (Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris)
• Giant God Warrior (Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo) [image design]
• Godzilla (Shin Godzilla) [image design]
• Zegga (SSSS.GRIDMAN)
• Neronga (Shin Ultraman)

See also

• Shinji Higuchi

External links

• Japanese Wikipedia page.

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