Masaki Tsuji (辻 真先 Tsuji Masaki, born March 23, 1932 in Nagoya) is a Japanese scenario writer of TV series (including many anime works) and films as well as mystery fiction novels.[1] Tsuji was most active in the business from the 1960s through the 1980s, and worked as a script writer on many popular anime TV series for Mushi Production, Toei Animation, and Tokyo Movie Shinsha.
Among the many popular series and films on which Tsuji worked as a scenarist include the anime adaptations of Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Princess Knight, and Unico, Go Nagai's Devilman, Cutie Honey, and Dororon Enma-kun, and Yumiko Ōshima's The Star of Cottonland.
Other popular anime series which credit Masaki Tsuji as a scenario writer include Kyojin no Hoshi, The Adventures of Pepero, Attack No. 1, Dr. Slump, Honey Honey, Majokko Megu-chan, Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae, Captain Future, Triton of the Sea, Gegege no Kitaro, Ikkyu-san, Himitsu no Akko-chan, Sally, the Witch, and Urusei Yatsura.
On September 24, 2008, Tsuji won a Special Award in the 13th Animation Kobe for his writing work.[2]
Most recently, Tsuji has scripted several episodes of Detective Conan in 2010 and 2011.