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 struggles with an existential crisis and begins to become aware of her mundane existence after realizing she is being constantly watched and controlled by nightmarish one-eyed entities.
Selected works Television series +YearTelevisionNotes2008Macross FrontierMotion graphics2013AKB0048: Next StageOpening director and storyboard artist2024Kaiju No. 8Opening director
OVAs +YearOVANotes2003-2004Macross ZeroMotion graphics2005Gundam EvolveCG2013Yozakura Quartet: Hana no UtaOpening director, storyboard artist, and motion graphics2013-2014Yozakura Quartet: Tsuki ni NakuOpening director, storyboard artist2014Psycho-Pass 2Subtitle design
Films +YearFilmNotes2010Halo LegendsDisplay designer (The Package)2012Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) RedoMotion graphics director and design works2013Harlock: Space PirateTitle logo design2017The Dragon DentistUnit director and storyboard artist2021Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a TimeStoryboard artist
Music videos +YearMusic videoArtistNotesRef2014ME!ME!ME!TeddyLoid feat. DaokoDirector, unit director, editor, compositor, storyboard artist, visual effects, and original creator2015ME!ME!ME! CHRONICTeddyLoid feat. DaokoDirector, storyboard artist, and original creator2015GIRLDaokoDirector, storyboard artist, and original creator2016Sakura NagashiHikaru UtadaDirector 2016The Asahi ShimbunMotohiro OnishiDirector2022Adam by Eve: A Live in Animation: Mob (Bōto)EveDirector
Other MV +YearMusic videoArtistNotes2007Believei-depDirector2009Room #204JazztronikDirector2010KANADE DANCEClammbonDirector
Video games +YearVideo gameNotes2003Star Ocean: Till the End of TimeItem designer2013Ace Combat InfinityCinematics and motion graphics2019Ace Combat 7: Skies UnknownCinematics director
Commercials +YearCommercialNotes2016HAL Tokyo College of Technology & Design: Kirai, Demo, SukiDirector
Awards and recognition +YearCeremonyAwardNominated work Result2014MTV Video Music Awards JapanBest Animation Video"ME!ME!ME!" by TeddyLoid feat. DaokoJapan Media Arts FestivalGrand Prize for Animation2015Tokyo Anime AwardBest Music Video"GIRL" by Daoko
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