Tatsuyuki Nagai

Tatsuyuki Nagai (長井 龍雪 , Nagai Tatsuyuki , born 24 January 1976) is a Japanese anime storyboard artist and director. He made his full directorial debut in 2006 with Honey and Clover II, after which he had directed 2007's Idolmaster: Xenoglossia, 2008's Toradora!, 2009's A Certain Scientific Railgun, 2011's Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, 2012's Waiting in the Summer and 2013's A Certain Scientific Railgun S.

After graduating from Niigata College of Art & Design, he started his career as a freelance storyboard artist and director in the anime industry in 2000. Nagai made his directorial debut with the second season of Honey and Clover in 2006. During this time he met screenwriter Mari Okada, and character designer Masayoshi Tanaka, with whom he formed an artist collective called Super Peace Busters. The following year, he worked on the sci-fi anime series Idolmaster: Xenoglossia.

In 2008, Nagai worked as part of the Super Peace Busters and directed Toradora!, an anime adaptation of Yuyuko Takemiya's light novel series of the same name. Following the success of Toradora, the team worked again in 2011 to create anime series, Anohana. The series received widespread acclaim from audiences and critics and has been considered one of the best anime of the 2010s. Nagai then directed Waiting in the Summer, an original anime series in 2012.

In 2015, Super Peace Busters reunited to work on the feature film The Anthem of the Heart (directed by Nagai). It was critically acclaimed, receiving many awards and nominations including an award for Best Animated Feature in the 36th Anima Festival and a nomination for Animation of the Year in the 39th Japan Academy Film Prize awards. In that same year, they worked again on Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans with Nagai directing the series.[10]

His next directed feature film, Her Blue Sky, an original anime film was released on October 11, 2019.[11]

In 2024, Super Peace Busters reunited for the upcoming original anime film, Fureru. The film is set to premiere in Q4 2024.[12]