
Directing
Akitaro Daichi
Born 1956-01-13 · Takasaki, Gunma, Japan
Akitarou Daichi is a Japanese anime director and producer.
Acting credits
6.2Ever wonder what it would be like to work for an animation studio? Kuromi just landed her dream job at the famous Studio Petit, and boy is she in for a rude awakening! The new head of the ultimate team of slackers, it’s up to her to finish "Time Journeys Episode 2," or fans everywhere will be let down. Will Kuromi's love of cartoons clean up this horrible mess... or make an even bigger one?
Animation Runner Kuromi
2001
6.0Following Studio Petit's popularity for Time Journey's, the crew is now faced with 3 anime at the same time. Rushing to fill the quotas, the owner of Studio Petit hires Takashimadaira, a veteran producer to help Kuromi. However, all Takashimadaira cares about is making deadlines, severely hurting the quality of the images. Shihonmatsu, who has been helping Kuromi, gets angry at the new producer and leaves, leaving Kuromi with a difficult choice: to choose between the quality or the deadline.
Animation Runner Kuromi 2
2004
Behind the camera
8.7While Roboco is having fun showing off her signature knee impersonations in a nearby vacant lot, Bondo notices something and turns around. Not only does he sense that something unusual is about to happen, he also sees Roboco as if she is enveloping him and the others...!?
Me & Roboco: The Movie
2025
5.3A young martial arts student gets caught up in a series of Kung Fu adventures with a woman who manages a Chinese restaurant.
Kung Fu Kid
2007
6.1Gou has woved to find the legendary treasure of Salamander. Searching for it he meets Ren, a fairy, who is looking for the four treasures of Heart. Gou's childhood friend Mari is frustrated with Gou running after treasures, but befriends with another fairy Rin. Gou and Ren's treasure hunt messes with a secret project led by Mari's father. It turns out Salamander isn't what Gou thought it was in the first place...
Elf Princess Ren
1995
6.2Ever wonder what it would be like to work for an animation studio? Kuromi just landed her dream job at the famous Studio Petit, and boy is she in for a rude awakening! The new head of the ultimate team of slackers, it’s up to her to finish "Time Journeys Episode 2," or fans everywhere will be let down. Will Kuromi's love of cartoons clean up this horrible mess... or make an even bigger one?
Animation Runner Kuromi
2001
NRThis short film introduces Semira, a strange boy who comes to play with Ojaru and his chums and bears a marked resemblance to a boy of the same name who spent a summer with the village elders when they were boys, long ago.
Prince Mackaroo the Movie: The Promised Summer - Ojaru and Semira
2000
6.0Following Studio Petit's popularity for Time Journey's, the crew is now faced with 3 anime at the same time. Rushing to fill the quotas, the owner of Studio Petit hires Takashimadaira, a veteran producer to help Kuromi. However, all Takashimadaira cares about is making deadlines, severely hurting the quality of the images. Shihonmatsu, who has been helping Kuromi, gets angry at the new producer and leaves, leaving Kuromi with a difficult choice: to choose between the quality or the deadline.
Animation Runner Kuromi 2
2004
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tadaima Omoide no Saga
2017
6.5Three girls, Umi, Sora, and Ao, run a jack-of-all trades buisiness. They, who accept any job at all, come across their hardest job ever. They must convince a boy, Rikku, to return to school when they dont even go to school themselves.
Grrl Power!
2004
6.5Three girls, Umi, Sora, and Ao, run a jack-of-all trades buisiness. They, who accept any job at all, come across their hardest job ever. They must convince a boy, Rikku, to return to school when they dont even go to school themselves.
Grrl Power!
2004
4.0Namakura Gatana's (The Dull Sword) 100th anniversary has now been honored with a "Kunoichi Chapter" sequel from noted anime shorts director Akitarou Daichi. Like a lot of his personal pieces, it's a bit crude...
Namakura Gatana: Kunoichi-hen
2017
NREven though this is a recap, there are a few sequences where there is some new text overlaid the pictures, telling something that wasn't explicitly told earlier.
Sexy Commando Side Story: A Story that can be Told in Two Days - Masaru-san: The Road to Becoming a Master
1998
6.0This fun, horror-inspired animated film is all about the ghost girl "Hanako of the Toilet", a character from school ghost stories and urban legends. One day, elementary school kid Daisuke runs into Hanako in the third-floor bathroom of the North Building. She warns him that a "switching game" is about to start involving everyone. Before long, Daisuke’s homeroom teacher, Yoshiko, is out sick, and a scary new teacher, Iwayama Iwao, shows up instead.
Hanako of the Toilet
1996
NRBarua of the Magic Race (Vile Tribe) has kidnapped students of the Magic School. Elie, Rena and Senia, are asked to look for them by the schools master. Along their search they find interesting and crazy things, and get into trouble as usual. Upon finding the students, they find their magic is not strong enough to save them, but they get some help from an unwanted friend.
Magic School Lunar: Secret of the Blue Dragon
1997
NRPrince Mackaroo, a noble from Fairy Land, accidentally slips through time from the Heian Era to modern Moonlight Town after finding a demon power scepter. While chasing demons with Cozmo, they notice the 'Fullmoon Road' shrinking and the Moonnight Pond drying up. A girl named Tsukimi warns that the 'Tear Rock' and the pond are drying, threatening to vanish the road unless they collect 10 divine spheres from the Heian Era before the full moon tomorrow. With only two days, Prince Mackaroo and his friends race against time to find the spheres and save the Fullmoon Road.
Prince Mackaroo: Peril at the Full Moon Road -A "Rare" Adventure of Our Prince-
2007
NRWhen Saki, an up-and-coming idol, holds an autograph session and not a single soul turns up, her hapless editor is at a loss as to what to do. In his infinite wisdom the young man decides that threatening a nearby elementary school kid is then best way to go! However, when that fails it seems that his only choice is to hold an autograph showdown between Saki and the psychotic idol wannabe, Bururu. Then, when a reckless teenager makes a bungled attempt to summon Satan, he and his friends must try and send the devil back to the underworld, but with their attempts just making him all the more infuriated will they emerge from the experience unscathed?
Gag Manga Biyori: Jump Festa 2002 Special
2002
NRFrom birth, Takeshi, a seven-year-old boy with a distinctly middle-aged appearance, was perceived as a natural leader. His first word was "leader", and his father, Hiroshi, was a quintessential leader among salarymen. Following Hiroshi's sudden death, Takeshi dedicates himself to emulating his father. He joins his first-grade class with the singular goal of becoming a true leader to his peers.
Seikimatsu Leader Gaiden Takeshi!
1998
NRFrom birth, Takeshi, a seven-year-old boy with a distinctly middle-aged appearance, was perceived as a natural leader. His first word was "leader", and his father, Hiroshi, was a quintessential leader among salarymen. Following Hiroshi's sudden death, Takeshi dedicates himself to emulating his father. He joins his first-grade class with the singular goal of becoming a true leader to his peers.
Seikimatsu Leader Gaiden Takeshi!
1998