Shūkō Murase

Shūkō Murase (村瀬修功, Murase Shūkō; born May 31, 1964) is a Japanese anime director and animator. A member of Sunrise, he is noted for contributing the character designs and key animation to New Mobile Report Gundam Wing and Argento Soma. In 2000, he contributed the main character designs to Final Fantasy IX. He made his directorial debut in 2002 with Witch Hunter Robin.

Works

Anime television series

Yoroiden Samurai Troopers (1988) (animation director)
Mashin Eiyūden Wataru 2 (1990) (animation director)
Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (1991) (animation director)
Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (1993) (animation director)
New Mobile Report Gundam Wing (1995) (character designs)
Gasaraki (1998) (character designs)
Argento Soma (2000) (character designs)
Witch Hunter Robin (2002) (director, original creator)
Samurai Champloo (2004) (key animation, storyboards, episode direction, ED animation)
Ergo Proxy (2006) (director, storyboards, animation director)
The Tower of Druaga: the Aegis of Uruk (2008) (storyboards)
Gangsta (2015) (director)

OVA

The Heroic Legend of Arslan (1991) (key animation)
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (1991) (key animation)
Mobile Suit SD Gundam Matsuri SD Sengoku den Tenka Taihei hen (1993) (character design, animation director)
Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz (1997) (character designs)
Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge (1997) (character designs)
Gundam Evolve 7 (2004) (director, storyboards, episode direction and management)
Blade Runner Black Out 2022 (2017) (character design, animation director)

Film

Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (1994) (character designs)
Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz -special edition- (1998) (character design)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) (original character designs)
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam A New Translation: Heirs to the Stars (2005) (animation director, key animation)
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam III A New Translation: Love is the Pulse of the Stars (2006) (key animation)
Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010) (segment director)
Genocidal Organ (2017) (director, screenplay, character design, storyboard, key animation)
Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway (2021) (director, storyboard, key animation)
Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash – The Sorcery of Nymph Circe (2026) (director, storyboard, key animation)

Video games

Final Fantasy IX (2000) (main character designs)

Bibliography

The Complete Works of Street Fighter II Movie (ストリートファイター2・映画資料全集). Shogakukan, 1994. ISBN 978-4091015792
Top Creators Teach How to Characters (トップクリエイターが教えるキャラクターの創り方『サムライチャンプルー』『エルゴプラクシー』にみるアニメーション制作現場). MC Press, 2007. ISBN 978-4901972949
Genocidal Organ Artworks (虐殺器官アートワークス). Ichijinsha, 2017. ISBN 978-4758015370

References

↑ Wong, Amos (December 2006). "Creator Profile: Shukou Murase". Newtype USA. Vol. 5, no. 12. pp. 50–53. ISSN 1541-4817.
↑ Scally, D.; Drummond-Mathews, A.; Hairston, M. (2009). "Interview with Murase Shūkō and Satō Dai". Mechademia. 4: 329–334. doi:10.1353/mec.0.0064.
↑ 機動戦士ガンダム閃光のハサウェイキルケーの魔女. eiga.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 27 June 2025.

External links

Shūkō Murase at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
Shuko Murase anime at Media Arts Database (in Japanese)
Shūkō Murase at IMDB

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[Wong_2006-1] Wong, Amos (December 2006). "Creator Profile: Shukou Murase". Newtype USA. Vol. 5, no. 12. pp. 50–53. ISSN 1541-4817.

[2] Scally, D.; Drummond-Mathews, A.; Hairston, M. (2009). "Interview with Murase Shūkō and Satō Dai". Mechademia. 4: 329–334. doi:10.1353/mec.0.0064.

[3] 機動戦士ガンダム閃光のハサウェイキルケーの魔女. eiga.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 27 June 2025.

v t e Works by Shūkō Murase
Director	Witch Hunter Robin (2002) Ergo Proxy (2006) Gangsta (2015) Genocidal Organ (2017) Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway (2021) Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe [zh] (2026)
Character designer	Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (1992) Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (1995–1996) Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge (1997–1998) Gasaraki (1998–1999) Final Fantasy IX (2000) Argento Soma (2000–2001) Blade Runner Black Out 2022 (2017)