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.

Directed

1. Attack on Titan (2013) — Director
2. Death Note (2006) — Director
3. High School of the Dead (2010) — Director
4. Black Lagoon (2006) — Director
5. Attack on Titan: Crimson Bow and Arrow (2014) — Director
6. Bubble (2022) — Director
7. High School of the Dead: Drifters of the Dead (2011) — Director
8. Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God (2007) — Director
9. Attack on Titan: Wings of Freedom (2015) — Director
10. Attack on Titan: The Roar of Awakening (2018) — Director
11. Guilty Crown (2011) — Director
12. Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress (2016) — Director
13. Attack on Titan: Chronicle (2020) — Director
14. Death Note Relight 2: L's Successors (2009) — Director
15. Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: The Battle of Unato (2019) — Director
16. Gungrave (2003) — Director
17. Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX (2025) — Director
18. Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: Life That Burns (2017) — Director
19. Aoi Bungaku Series (2009) — Director
20. Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: Light That Gathers (2016) — Director
21. Kurozuka (2008) — Director
22. COLORs (2023) — Director
23. Otogi-Juushi Akazukin (2005) — Director

Also appeared in

1. THE ANIME STUDIO (2021) — Self - Director