Takuma Hiroya (Quantumverse)

Takuma Ino Hiroya (born on June 10, 1960) is a Japanese-American director, animator, illustrator, writer, blogger, and producer, who has worked for Warner Bros. Japan & major animation studios of Japan & USA, including Cartoon Network Studios, Studio Trigger, Gainax, Production I.G, Williams Street, and other American and Japanese animation studios. He has also worked as a producer, and screenwriter on anime feature films. He is best known for creating Gurren Lagann, Promare, and Soul Eater.
His style has some combination of Japanese & American animation that are involved with the arts of Genndy Tartakovsky, Hiroyuki Imaishi, Jouji Furuta, Glen Murakami, Derrick J Wyatt, Sunghoo Park, Rob Renzetti, Pendleton Ward, Parker Simmons, Ian Jones-Quartey, Hiroko Utsumi, Yoh Yoshinari, Jhonen Vasquez, Hiroyuki Okiura, Alex Hirsch, Justin Roiland, Tetsurō Araki, Gorō Taniguchi, Tensai Okamura, Yuichiro Hayashi, Yuichiro Hayashi, Masaaki Yuasa, Katsuji Morishita, Takahiro Omori (animator), Takeshi Koike, Koji Masunari, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Kazuto Nakazawa, LeSean Thomas, Alan Ituriel, Mike Inel, Craig McCracken, Yoko Kikuchi & Vinson Ngo with some anime-influenced Western and Japanese animation which Takuma Hiroya's animations are evolving to the next step.
He used some best frames of his animation, recognized by his figures, the best storytelling for good morals, and created some excellent visuals, speculative fiction, and good visual development and concept development for the series, and movies. And created some original net animations and also his fan art on his social media.
He's close friends with Genndy Tartakovsky, Hiroyuki Imaishi, Alex Hirsch, Masaaki Yuasa, Tensai Okamura, Rob Renzetti, Craig McCracken, Justin Roiland, Jhonen Vasquez, Yoh Yoshinari and Takeshi Koike.
==Early life==
Takuma Hiroya was born in 1962 in Nagoya, Japan at Nagoya City Jouhoku Hospital. His father is an American named Jackson Matthews while his mother is Japanese named Susuto Hiroya
He studied at Friends School (Japan) in Minato, Japan from kindergarten to high school and graduated in 1980. He attended the Tokyo University of the Arts in Adachi, Tokyo, and majored in. Later, he graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts in 1990.
==Professional career==
From 1991 to 1999, Takuma worked as a key animator in Nerima, Tokyo. He worked for Artmic Co., Ltd, Sunrise, and Madhouse Inc as a trainee, which was his first job in animation.
After moving to Burbank, California in the 2000s, he worked for Cartoon Network Studios as visual development, producer, designer, and editor.
Months later, he opened a Japanese Studio called Studio Sitrus in the 2000s and worked on several animation projects from Japan & USA at Warner Bros Television Studios and other productions television studios and other his animations including his studio called Studio Sitrus with his friends, and he worked on his Social Media since the 2010s. 
He was promoted to animating assistant and has been working for WB Animation since the 2000s, but he retired in 2020 and moved to his studio to work on some other projects to do. 
==Filmography==
Year 	Title 	Credits 	Notes
1991 	City Hunter '91 	Key Animator 	This is his first time working on his first work on animating the anime series.
1993 	Battle Angel (OVA) 	Key Animator 	
1994 	Genocyber 	Key Animator 	
1997 	Berserk (1997) 	Producer & Art
Art Director 	
1999 	Digimon Adventure
Season 1	Executive Producer
Producer 	He produced the episode from Season 1: The Legend of the Digi-destined. He would portray a friend who lost a brother with no hopes and no mercy but to give a second chance for his wish.
2000 	FLCL 	Writer 	He wrote 3 episodes from FLCL that he made such as Brittle Bullet, Fire Starter & Full Swing.
2001 	Medabots 	Key Animator & Art Director (along with Hiroyuki Imaishi)	He first met Hiroyuki Imaishi as a friend in Gainax studio, when he was working on FLCL Episode 5: Brittle Bullet
2001-2002	Invader Zim 	Executive Producer
Producer 	This is his first time working at Nickelodeon Animation Studios before moving to Cartoon Network Studios. He first met Jhonen Vasquez at Nickelodeon Animation Studios. He also worked on Season 1 of Invader Zim as a Producer.
2003 	Codename: Kids Next Door 	Storyboard Artist of the episode: Operation R.E.P.O.R.T 	This is his first time working at Cartoon Network Studios. His work on Numbuh 4's Report, from the episode, Operation R.E.P.O.R.T. His sketch is to make a parody of Dragon Ball Z with Wally as Goku or in his case "Numbuh Four Go", and The Delightful Children From Down the Lane as Frieza fighting over the "Rectanguloid Power Charm".
2004 	Megas XLR:
Season 1 	Executive Producer
Storyboard Artist 	He drew some storyboard from the transcript from the 5 episodes of Megas XLR: Buggin' the System, The Driver's Seat, Test Drive, Junk in the Trunk & Breakout.
2005-2006	Robotboy 	Co-Creator of Season 1 & 2 of Series 1 (along with Jan Van Rijsselberge, Charlie Bean & Heath Kenny)
Writer
Chief Director
Designer	This is the first cartoon work on the United Kingdom and France with help from Jan Van Rijsselberge.
On March 11, 2006, He step down and left the production due to his concept was not allowed Bob Camp who had an ambitious direction, writers wanted more freedom and a Cartoonier style, more interested in the comedy style and tone and action that he created so far. 
Bob Camp along with Health Kenny wanted to make more of the Comedy style of Robotboy instead of the Action style that Takuma made.
Therefore, Bob's creative differences and his Takuma Hiroya's and Jan Van Rijsselberge's Robotboy concepts become failures due to his UK show. Takuma was upset & disappointed at Bob for ruining the show in Series 2, and he "didn't get" the show and ignored the series bible. Later, He was fired from production. 
Takuma officially left the production of Robotboy in Series 1 when Bob Camp takes over Series 2 and start making his anime with his friend, Hiroyuki Imaishi to create a combining mech anime that looks similar to Robotboy, Getter Robo and GaoGaiGar that was to be successful mecha anime: Gurren Lagann.
2007 	Gurren Lagann 	Creator (along with Hiroyuki Imaishi)
Director
Writer (with Kazuki Nakashima)
Producer	This is the first anime work with Hiroyuki Imaishi & Kazuki Nakashima after Takuma Hiroya left the cartoon production Robotboy (from Cartoon Network Europe) during Series 1 on March 2006.
2008-2009	Soul Eater 	Co-Creator (with Takuya Igarashi)
Writer (help from Akatsuki Yamatoya)
Director
Executive Producer	His second anime work is involving Soul Eater. His idea is to bring Soul Eater as an anime adaptation because he always loved to read manga series called Soul Eater. It's one of the manga collections that he keeps and reads about the plot summary and some amazing art styles. Later, he got the idea to make an anime adaptation with help from Takuya Igarashi from Bones Studios.
2010-2011	Sym-Bionic Titan 	Writer 	He returned to Cartoon Network Studios, he make some transcripts for Genndy Tartakovsky, Bryan Andrews & Paul Rudish.
2012 	Psycho-Pass
Season 1 	Writer
Screenplay 	He worked on Season 1 for a script of Psycho-Pass making a police force with darker and horror elements.
2019 	Promare 	Director (along with Hiroyuki Imaishi)
Screenplay (With Kazuki Nakashima)	This is his first anime film with his friend Hiroyuki Imaishi that he made that features some firefighters and the anime series Fire Force coming together.
2021 	Back Arrow 	Director (with Gorō Taniguchi)
Producer
Writer (along with Kazuki Nakashima)	His third work with Kazuki Nakashima & Gorō Taniguchi, since he returned to anime series production after his break.
2022 	Tekken: Bloodline 	Director (along with Yoshikazu Miyao)
Writer (with Gavin Hignight)
Producer	His fourth work was with a Tekken director named: Katsuhiro Harada who worked on the fight game franchise: Tekken. Since he played all of Tekken's games including Tekken 3 when he was a teenager. He decided to make Jin Kazama's origin story from the paper. He helped Katsuhiro Harada to create a Tekken Anime. The series takes place after Tekken 2 and before Tekken 3, with Jin Kazama training with his mother, Jun Kazama, in Yakushima. It will follow Jin's loss of his mother and his quest for revenge against Ogre by training under his grandfather, Heihachi Mishima.
TBA 	Unicorn: Warriors Eternal	Writer (along with Genndy Tartakovsky) 	He first met Genndy Tatakovsky, when he was working on Sym-Bionic Titan as a writer and a storyboard artist.
====Other Works====
2011-2012	Infinite Stratos 	Exclusive Producer
Special Thanks
Key Animator	
2018 	Batman Ninja 	Writer
Producer
Screenplay	He wrote and produced Batman Ninja for the movie. This is his first time working on an anime film at Warner Bros Studios since he had to take a break from working on anime shows.
2014 	Black Dynamite 	Storyboard Art	He worked on Williams Street for the Opening of Season 2 of Black Dynamite along with Hiroyuki Imaishi.
2013-2014	Space Dandy 	Writer
Creative Producer
Storyboard Artist
Chief Director	He wrote some 26 episodes with Shinichirō Watanabe (Co-Creator of Cowboy Bebop & Samurai Champloo).
2018 	Villainous 	Executive Producer
Special Thanks	
2019 	Cannon Busters 	Writer
Storyboard Art
Producer	He wrote and produce 12 episodes of Cannon Busters along with Matt Wayne.
2022 	Craig Of The Creek	Art Designer 	He drew some designs of Kelsey & Stacks adult forms and Dragon design too, in the episode Fire & Ice.
TBA 	Ninja Kamui 	Storyboard Art
Producer
Writer
Chief Director
Executive Producer
Director (along with Sunghoo Park)	When Adult Swim announces two new anime in their late-night programming like Rick And Morty: The Anime. Takuma Hiroya was involved in this Sunghoo Park and Takeshi Okazaki project, He would join the project from Williams Street, E&H production, and Sola Entertainment, and started producing and writing the script and drawing the storyboards from the start.
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