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Yutaka Yamamoto

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Yutaka Yamamoto has been working in the Japanese animation industry for over 15 years.  While working for Kyoto Animation he was the Series Production Director for The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya as well as choreographing the famous dance routine for the ending, the Hare Hare Yukai.  He also did the script, storyboard and episode direction for several of the episodes.

In 2008, Yamamoto formed his own production company called Ordet.  Since then he has done Production Coordination for Black★Rock Shooter (OVA) and been the Director for Fractale, an anime with several episodes based in Galway, Ireland. Yamamoto has also worked on Wake Up, Girls!, Library Wars, Kannagi, Air, Full Metal Panic!, Kanon, Fate/stay night, Persona: Trinity Soul, and Senyuu. Yamamoto is a controversial figure in the anime industry having many times disparaged it for its unoriginality and moe-fication.

You can read his full list of works on Anime News Network or My Anime List.

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