Hisashi Hirai

Hisashi Hirai (平井久司, Hirai Hisashi, born on 27 May 1959 Tokyo) is a Japanese animator, character designer, and manga artist. He is noted for his work with Sunrise, having worked in Infinite Ryvius, s-CRY-ed, Gundam SEED, Gundam SEED Destiny and also Fafner of the Azure. He was also the lead animator for Linebarrels of Iron.^[1]

Works

Character design

• Dragon Slayer (1992) (SNES version)
• Wild 7 Ova (1994)
• Wild Knights Gulkeeva (1995)
• The Silent Service Voyage 2&3 (1997–1998)
• Infinite Ryvius (1999)
• s-CRY-ed (2001)
• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (2002)
• Fafner in the Azure (2004)
• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny (2004)
• Fafner in the Azure Right of Left (2005)
• Gin'iro no Olynssis (2006)
• Heroic Age (2007)
• Linebarrels of Iron (2008)
• Majestic Prince (2013)
• Fafner in the Azure (2015)

In addition design

• Dancougar - Super Beast Machine God (1985, Mechanic design)
• Future GPX Cyber Formula (1996)
• Stellvia of the Universe (2003, TCG character original idea)
• My-HiME (2004, element gun design)

References