Atsushi Nishigori

Atsushi Nishigori (敦史錦織, Nishigori Atsushi) is a Japanese animator, storyboard artist, character designer and anime director, formerly worked for Gainax.

He is known for being involved in a handful of Gainax-produced animated series, movies and OVA's, as well as non-Gainax projects he was involved for key animation. Nishigori's well known works in Gainax were Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, as he was mainly the character designer of both shows, which were directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi.

Later after he left Gainax alongside Imaishi, Otsuka and a lot of former Gainax members, Nishigori worked on an anime adaptation of Bandai Namco Entertainment's The Idolmaster by A-1 Pictures as a writer, character designer, storyboard artist, animator and marking his directorial debut as he worked on the show and the film.

Nishigori is involved in the series as a supervising director for the first half of Season 1 (after Imaishi left to work on Space Patrol Luluco), Season 2 and the miniseason alongside Rob Renzetti and Jayson Thiessen and animation director for Trigger.

After the end of the miniseason, he left the series to work on the Magical Shards Saga anime film series as a supervising director, character designer and writer, as well as working as a director and writer on Trigger and A-1 Pictures's newest original project, Darling in the Frankxx.