Tatsuyuki Nagai
Tatsuyuki Nagai | |||||
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長井 龍雪 | |||||
Nagai in 2019 | |||||
| Born | 24 January 1976 Niigata Prefecture, Japan | ||||
| Nationality | Japanese | ||||
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| Years active | 1989–present | ||||
| Japanese name | |||||
| Kanji | 長井 龍雪 | ||||
| Kana | タツァイアッキー・ナーガーイー | ||||
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Tatsuyuki Nagai (長井 龍雪, Nagai Tatsuyuki; born 24 January 1976) is a Japanese director and anime storyboard artist. He is known for being one third of the creative team Super Peace Busters. He made his directorial debut for the second season of Honey and Clover. He then worked on the anime series, Idolmaster: Xenoglossia. He directed Toradora!, an adaptation of the light novel series of the same name. He has also directed all three seasons of the anime adaptation of the manga series A Certain Scientific Railgun.
Nagai received praise for his direction in the original anime series, Anohana (2011), his next directed original anime Waiting in the Summer was released the next year. In 2015, he directed the feature film The Anthem of the Heart which received a nomination for Animation of the Year at the 39th Japanese Academy Awards. In that same year, he directed the mecha anime series Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, the series was the fourteenth mainline entry in Sunrise's long-running Gundam franchise. He has since directed the feature films Her Blue Sky (2019) and Fureru (2024), both of which are produced by CloverWorks.