Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
November 5, 1976 (49 years old)
Sayama, Saitama, Japan
Also Known As
- Араки Тэцуро
- Tetsuroh Araki
- Tetsurou Araki
- Tetsurō Araki
- あらき てつろう
Tetsuro Araki
Biography
Tetsuro Araki (荒木 哲郎, Araki Tetsuro) is a Japanese anime director, best known as the director of the Death Note anime adaptation. He is married to editor Aya Hida.
Araki is a graduate at Senshu University and worked with Madhouse before moving with Production I.G and later Wit Studio. His directorial debut was 2005's original video animation Otogi-Jūshi Akazukin. He is best known as the director of the Death Note, Highschool of the Dead and Attack on Titan anime adaptations. He is also the director of two original anime series Guilty Crown and Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, and the original anime fiilm Bubble. Araki, along with Death Note character designer Masaru Kitao, appeared at Anime Expo 2007.
Known For
Directing
Moonrise
Storyboard Artist
2025
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX
Director, Storyboard Artist
2025
Bubble
Storyboard Artist, Director, Second Unit Director
2022
Attack on Titan: Chronicle
Director
2020
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: The Battle of Unato
Screenplay, Director
2019
Attack on Titan: The Roar of Awakening
Director
2018
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: Life That Burns
Director, Screenplay
2017
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: Light That Gathers
Director
2016
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
Series Director, Director, Storyboard Artist
2016
Attack on Titan: Wings of Freedom
Director
2015
Attack on Titan: Crimson Bow and Arrow
Director
2014
Attack on Titan
Director, Opening/Ending Animation, Series Director, Storyboard Artist
2013