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Akira Toba(I)

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Akira Toba is known for Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001), Ergo Proxy (2006) and Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (2022).
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    • Known for

    Steve Blum, Wendee Lee, Jennifer Hale, Megumi Hayashibara, Ai Kobayashi, and Koichi Yamadera in Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)
    Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
    7.8
    • Additional Crew
    • 2001
    Ergo Proxy (2006)
    Ergo Proxy
    7.8
    TV Series
    • Director
    Kana Ichinose in Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (2022)
    Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
    7.4
    TV Series
    • Director
    Darker Than Black (2007)
    Darker Than Black
    7.7
    TV Series
    • Director

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    Additional Crew

    • Steve Blum, Wendee Lee, Jennifer Hale, Megumi Hayashibara, Ai Kobayashi, and Koichi Yamadera in Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)
      Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
      7.8
      • setting production
      • 2001
    • Megumi Hayashibara, Unsho Ishizuka, Aoi Tada, and Koichi Yamadera in Cowboy Bebop (1998)
      Cowboy Bebop
      8.9
      TV Series
      • literary coordinator
      • setting production
      • 1998–1999

    Director

    • Gachiakuta (2025)
      Gachiakuta
      8.0
      TV Series
      • episode director
      • 2025
    • Insomniacs After School (2023)
      Insomniacs After School
      7.9
      TV Mini Series
      • Director
      • 2023
    • Kana Ichinose in Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (2022)
      Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
      7.4
      TV Series
      • Director
      • director
      • 2022–2023
    • Uncle from Another World (2022)
      Uncle from Another World
      7.3
      TV Mini Series
      • Director
      • 2022
    • Gundam Build Divers Re: Rise (2019)
      Gundam Build Divers Re: Rise
      6.8
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2019–2020
    • How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? (2019)
      How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?
      6.9
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2019
    • Wataten! An Angel Flew Down to Me (2019)
      Wataten! An Angel Flew Down to Me
      6.8
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2019
    • Uchi no Maid ga Uzasugiru (2018)
      Uchi no Maid ga Uzasugiru
      6.2
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2018
    • Gundam Build Divers (2018)
      Gundam Build Divers
      6.5
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2018
    • Mamoru Miyano, Yûichi Nakamura, Jessie James Grelle, and Manaka Iwami in Tada Never Falls in Love (2018)
      Tada Never Falls in Love
      7.3
      TV Mini Series
      • Director
      • 2018
    • Kokkoku (2018)
      Kokkoku
      6.9
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2018
    • 91 Days (2016)
      91 Days
      7.6
      TV Mini Series
      • Director
      • 2016
    • Aokana: Four Rhythm Across the Blue (2016)
      Aokana: Four Rhythm Across the Blue
      6.4
      TV Mini Series
      • episode director
      • 2016
    • Cross Ange: Rondo of Angel and Dragon (2014)
      Cross Ange: Rondo of Angel and Dragon
      7.0
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2014–2015
    • Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne (2012)
      Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne
      5.9
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2012

    Second Unit or Assistant Director

    • Genocidal Organ (2017)
      Genocidal Organ
      6.4
      • unit director
      • 2017
    • Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 3 - The Brightness Falls (2015)
      Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 3 - The Brightness Falls
      6.5
      • unit director
      • 2015
    • Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 2 - The Torn-Up Wyvern (2013)
      Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 2 - The Torn-Up Wyvern
      6.8
      Video
      • unit director
      • 2013
    • Seiguriddo sebun: Shiogane no tsubasa
      • unit director
      • 2012
    • Turn A Gundam: Earth Light (2002)
      Turn A Gundam: Earth Light
      6.6
      • assistant unit director
      • 2002
    • Steve Blum, Wendee Lee, Jennifer Hale, Megumi Hayashibara, Ai Kobayashi, and Koichi Yamadera in Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001)
      Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
      7.8
      • assistant unit director
      • 2001

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