# Hibiki Yoshizaki

Hibiki Yoshizaki (吉崎 響, Yoshizaki Hibiki, born March 10, 1980) is a Japanese video artist, animator, music video director, art director, and motion graphics designer. He is best known for his animated music videos "ME!ME!ME!" and "GIRL," which gained mainstream popularity both in Japan and internationally after being submitted to the Japan Animator Expo. He also works as VJ Cotobuki with Naoki Nagayasu.

## Biography

Yoshizaki was born in Tokyo, Japan. At the age of 16, he was deeply impressed by Kōji Morimoto's MV "Extra" (music by Ken Ishii), which inspired him to work in animation. As a high school student, he started working in Gainax under the guidance of Hiroyuki Yamaga. He then entered Tama Art University and started working as a VJ in nightclubs all around Tokyo while studying animation under the mentorship of Kōji Morimoto at Studio 4°C.
After graduation, he became a freelance motion graphics designer and art director, mainly for animated music videos and promotional videos. In 2011, for making Clammbon's Kanade Dance MV, he was selected as one of the top 100 video artists of the year in a magazine published by BNN Shinsha, Japan. In 2014, he created the first-two original animated music videos "ME!ME!ME!" and "GIRL" in collaboration with TeddyLoid and Daoko. It was made as the 3rd and 31st episode of Japan Animator Expo, which has gone viral with over 100 million views on YouTube and achieved the highest number of views among all 36 episodes in the project. After working as a freelance art director for 18 years, he joined Khara in 2016.
In 2022, Yoshizaki collaborated with Eve to produce an animated music video, "Mob (Bōto)", which also featured in a musical film, Adam by Eve: A Live in Animation in collaboration with Netflix. Loosely inspired by George Orwell's novel 1984, the visuals depict the story of a masked high school girl who suffers from an existential crisis and begins to question her mundane existence after realizing she is being constantly watched and controlled by nightmarish one-eyed entities.

## Selected works
### Television series

| Year | Television | Notes |
| 2008 | Macross Frontier | Motion graphics |
| 2013 | AKB0048: Next Stage | Opening director and storyboard artist |
| 2024 | Kaiju No. 8 | Opening director |

### OVAs

| Year | OVA | Notes |
| 2003-2004 | Macross Zero | Motion graphics |
| 2005 | Gundam Evolve | CG |
| 2013 | Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta | Opening director, storyboard artist, and motion graphics |
| 2013-2014 | Yozakura Quartet: Tsuki ni Naku | Opening director, storyboard artist |
| 2014 | Psycho-Pass 2 | Subtitle design |

### Films

| Year | Film | Notes |
| 2010 | Halo Legends | Display designer (The Package) |
| 2012 | Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo | Motion graphics director and design works |
| 2013 | Harlock: Space Pirate | Title logo design |
| 2017 | The Dragon Dentist | Unit director and storyboard artist |
| 2021 | Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time | Storyboard artist |

### Music videos

| Year | Music video | Artist | Notes |
| 2014 | ME!ME!ME! | TeddyLoid feat. Daoko | Director, unit director, editor, compositor, storyboard artist, visual effects, and original creator |
| 2015 | ME!ME!ME! CHRONIC | TeddyLoid feat. Daoko | Director, storyboard artist, and original creator |
| 2015 | GIRL | Daoko | Director, storyboard artist, and original creator |
| 2016 | Sakura Nagashi | Hikaru Utada | Director |
| 2016 | The Asahi Shimbun | Motohiro Onishi | Director |
| 2022 | Adam by Eve: A Live in Animation: Mob (Bōto) | Eve | Director |

### Other MV

| Year | Music video | Artist | Notes |
| 2007 | Believe | i-dep | Director |
| 2009 | Room #204 | Jazztronik | Director |
| 2010 | KANADE DANCE | Clammbon | Director |

### Video games

| Year | Video game | Notes |
| 2003 | Star Ocean: Till the End of Time | Item designer |
| 2013 | Ace Combat Infinity | Cinematics and motion graphics |
| 2019 | Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown | Cinematics director |

### Commercials

| Year | Commercial | Notes |
| 2016 | HAL Tokyo College of Technology & Design: Kirai, Demo, Suki | Director |

## Awards and recognition

| Year | Ceremony | Award | Nominated Work | Result |
| 2014 | MTV Video Music Awards Japan | Best Animation Video | "ME!ME!ME!" by TeddyLoid feat. Daoko | Won |
| 2014 | Japan Media Arts Festival | Grand Prize for Animation | "ME!ME!ME!" by TeddyLoid feat. Daoko | Won |
| 2015 | Tokyo Anime Award | Best Music Video | "GIRL" by Daoko | Won |