Akira Amemiya

Akira Amemiya (雨宮 哲, Amemiya Akira) is a Japanese animator and director at Studio Trigger. He is known for being a deputy director for Kill la Kill, as well as a director in Ninja Slayer from Animation and Inferno Cop. He was also a former member of Gainax who moved to Trigger alongside other members such as Hiroyuki Imaishi, Masahiko Otsuka, Atsushi Nishigori, Hiromi Wakabayashi and Yoh Yoshinari.

Amemiya is involved in a lot of key animations for its works such as Neon Genesis Evangelion, Medaka Box, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt and Gurren Lagann. However, he also works as a key animator in anime series and films from other animation studios rather than Trigger and/or Gainax.

Amemiya is a supervising director of the Harmony Unleashed: Equestria Campus Supremacy television series as well as most direct-to-video films starting with Season 3 alongside Asaph Fipke and Imaishi.