Hiromi Wakabayashi

is one of notable staff of Studio Trigger who is in charge of following:
*BNA: Brand New Animal — Publicity
*Cyberpunk: Edgerunners — Creative Director
*DARLING in the FRANXX — Creative Producer
*Delicious in Dungeon — Publicity
*Gurren Lagann — Setting Production
*Gurren Lagann the Movie — The Lights in the Sky Are Stars : Setting Production
*Gurren Lagann the Movie -Childhood's End- — Setting Production
*Inferno Cop — Script
*Kill la Kill — Script (ep 4), Storyboard (ED 4), Unit Director (ED 4), Creative Officer, Publicity
*Kiznaiver — Publicity
*Little Witch Academia (movie) — Story Cooperation
*Little Witch Academia (TV) — Publicity
*Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade (OAV) — Story Cooperation
*Panty & Stocking in Sanitarybox (OAV) — Scenario (eps 1-3)
*Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt (TV) — Script (9 episodes), Episode Director (ep 25), 2D Work (ep 22), Concept Planner
*Promare — Art Director, Creative Producer
*Space Patrol Luluco — Script (eps 4-6, 12), Storyboard (OP), Unit Director (OP), Creative Director, Plot (ep 3)
*SSSS.Dynazenon — Publicity
*SSSS.Gridman — Trigger Publicity Staff
*Star Wars: Visions — Script (The Twins), Art Director (The Twins; Bihou)
*When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace — Publicity
== Gallery==
=== Miscellaneous ===
Sushio and co. at Pixar Animation Studios.jpg|Sushio and co. at Pixar Animation Studios
Sushio and co. at Pixar Animation Studios 2.jpg|Ditto
Sushio and co. at Pixar Animation Studios 3.jpg|Ditto
Sushio and co. at Pixar Animation Studios 4.jpg|Ditto
Sushio and co. at Pixar Animation Studios 5.jpg|Ditto
Alex Hirsch and Dana Terrace in a meeting with Studio Trigger staff in 2016.jpg|Alex Hirsch and Dana Terrace in a meeting with Studio Trigger staff in 2016
Hiromi Wakabayashi & Koyama Shigeto posing alongside Kill la Kill cosplayers during AnimeNEXT 2014.jpg|Hiromi Wakabayashi & Koyama Shigeto posing alongside Kill la Kill cosplayers during AnimeNEXT 2014
Wakabayashi and Koyoma during AnimeExpo 2018 alongside Over Justice cosplayer.jpg|Wakabayashi and Koyoma during AnimeExpo 2018 alongside Over Justice cosplayer
Otakon 2022 announcement welcoming Hiromi Wakabayashi.jpg|Otakon 2022 announcement welcoming Hiromi Wakabayashi
TRIGGER Panel Sakuracon 2024 Announcement.jpg|TRIGGER Panel Sakuracon 2024 Announcement
Sketches of Ursula, Luluco, and Ryuko sketch drawn by Shigeto Koyama, Hiromi Wakabayashi, and Yō Yoshinari during AnimeExpo 2022.jpg|Sketches of Ursula, Luluco, and Ryuko sketch drawn by Shigeto Koyama, Hiromi Wakabayashi, and Yō Yoshinari during AnimeExpo 2022
Shigeto Koyama and Hiromi Wakabayashi announced to participate as guests of TRIGGER Panel in Sakuracon 2024.jpg|Shigeto Koyama and Hiromi Wakabayashi announced to participate as guests of TRIGGER Panel in Sakuracon 2024
==Trivia==
*During his tenure in Gainax, he visited Pixar in 2011 alongside various assorted Gainax members at the time, which includes Sushio, Masahiko Otsuka, and Kumiko Sano whom all become Studio Trigger staff members later onhttps://web.archive.org/web/20120115013005/http://grantalexander.blogspot.com/.
*In an interview, Hiromi Wakabayashi admitted to prefer 2D animation over 3D animation, which helped by Studio Trigger mostly using the former.https://web.archive.org/web/20140619175122/http://www.japanator.com/anime-next-14-studio-trigger-32705.phtml
*Hiromi Wakabayashi's main influences for his animation style are Shigeto Koyama, Atsushi Nishigori, and Hiroyuki Imaishi.
*Wakabayashi revealed in Otakon 2022 that the studio looked for new talents in directing new season of Inferno Cop (having drawn the characters' designs which included Hellfire Kid, the older version of Hellfire Boy) and majorities, if not all of his peers supported Keita Amemiya's Gridman Universe serieshttps://x.com/VamptVo/status/1553813462958096389.
**In the same convention, Wakabayashi expressed an interest in working on a Fast and Furious installment in addition of Star Warshttps://x.com/VamptVo/status/1553814632611151872. He also stressed aspiring artists who asked him for advice to take inspirations from diverse medias instead of anime alonehttps://x.com/VamptVo/status/1553817560885387267.
*As highlighted in an interview with Studio Trigger staff from Ani-Gamers during AnimeNext 2017, Hiromi Wakabayashi revealed that he, Hiroyuki Imaishi, Yō Yoshinari, Atsushi Nishigori, Shigeto Koyama, and Masahiko Otsuka formed a group called Geek Fleet during their time as main staff of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. The group however, reduced into Geek Boat during the development of Sex & Violence with Machspeed due to Yoshinari, Nishigori, and Otsuka got occupied with their own works, comparing it to loss-of manpower that they moved to boat hence its logo's three nerds escaping on a U-boatLittle Witch Academia Director Yoshinari Talks TV Production and the Challenges of Directing.
== External links ==
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=== Other info ===
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:Hiromi Wakabayashi at Imdb
:Hiromi Wakabayashi at Anime Matsuri site (archived in May 24, 2015)
=== Interviews ===
* Ani-gamers
** Interview: Studio Trigger on Inferno Cop, Turning Girls, and Kill la Kill by David Estrella and Evan Minto July 9, 2015
*Crunchyroll News
**The Road to Promare: TRIGGER Staff Discuss the Anime Studio's History by Guest Author June 3, 2019
***Japanese version (Famitsu) - アニメスタジオ“TRIGGER”。『グレンラガン』『キルラキル』を生み出した、その成り立ちと作品を語る――舛本和也氏×若林広海氏対談 May 24, 2019
*Japanator
**Anime Next '14: Studio Trigger by Jeff Chuang July 16, 2014 (Archived on June 19, 2014)
*Otaku Blend
**Exclusive: Studio TRIGGER Interview by Sean Cruz May 2, 2024 / Twitter link
=== News ===
* Anime News Network
** Studio Trigger by Bamboo Dong July 4, 2014
*The Senpai Project
**Interview with Yoh Yoshinari and Hiromi Wakabayashi Otakon 2022 by Senpai Project August 9, 2022
==References==
Category:Show staff
Category:Films staff