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Kento Toya

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  • Art Department
  • Director
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Kento Toya is known for Solo Leveling (2024), Sword Art Online (2012) and My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019).
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    • Awards
      • 3 nominations total

    Known for

    Solo Leveling (2024)
    Solo Leveling
    8.5
    TV Series
    • Animation Department
    Sword Art Online (2012)
    Sword Art Online
    7.5
    TV Series
    • Animation Department
    My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019)
    My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
    7.8
    • Animation Department
    • 2019
    Sword Art Online: Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night (2021)
    Sword Art Online: Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night
    7.2
    • Animation Department
    • 2021

    Credits

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    Animation Department

    • Solo Leveling (2024)
      Solo Leveling
      8.5
      TV Series
      • assistant chief animation director
      • key animator: A-1 Pictures
      • 2025
    • Sword Art Online: Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night (2021)
      Sword Art Online: Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night
      7.2
      • animation director: ending sequence
      • character designer
      • chief animation director
      • 2021
    • Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway (2021)
      Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway
      6.6
      • key animator
      • 2021
    • Sword Art Online (2012)
      Sword Art Online
      7.5
      TV Series
      • character designer
      • animation director
      • 2012–2020
    • My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019)
      My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
      7.8
      • key animator
      • 2019
    • The Seven Deadly Sins (2014)
      The Seven Deadly Sins
      7.6
      TV Series
      • character designer
      • chief animation director
      • 2018
    • Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale (2017)
      Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale
      7.3
      • assistant animation director
      • 2017
    • Tomokazu Seki, Ian Sinclair, Tetsuya Kakihara, Airu Shiozaki, Yûto Uemura, Jarrod Greene, Justin Briner, Alejandro Saab, Daman Mills, and Daiki Kobayashi in Nanbaka (2016)
      Nanbaka
      6.6
      TV Series
      • animation director
      • 2016
    • Vividred Operation (2013)
      Vividred Operation
      5.8
      TV Series
      • animation director
      • second key animator
      • key animator ...
      • 2013
    • Aquarion EVOL (2012)
      Aquarion EVOL
      6.7
      TV Series
      • key animator
      • 2012
    • Strike Witches the Movie (2012)
      Strike Witches the Movie
      6.7
      • animation director
      • key animator (as Kent Toya)
      • 2012
    • The Idolm@ster (2011)
      The Idolm@ster
      6.7
      TV Series
      • key animator
      • second key animator
      • 2011
    • Hanasaku Iroha (2011)
      Hanasaku Iroha
      7.6
      TV Series
      • key animator: P.A.WORKS
      • second key animator
      • 2011
    • Banno Yasai Ninninman (2011)
      Banno Yasai Ninninman
      5.2
      Short
      • key animator
      • 2011
    • Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva (2009)
      Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva
      6.7
      • key animator
      • 2009

    Art Department

    • Solo Leveling (2024)
      Solo Leveling
      8.5
      TV Series
      • storyboard artist
      • 2025
    • Professor Layton and the Last Specter (2009)
      Professor Layton and the Last Specter
      7.8
      Video Game
      • graphic designer: PA Works
      • 2009
    • Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (2008)
      Professor Layton and the Unwound Future
      8.6
      Video Game
      • graphic designer: PA Works
      • 2008
    • Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (2007)
      Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
      8.3
      Video Game
      • graphic designer: PA Works
      • 2007

    Director

    • Solo Leveling (2024)
      Solo Leveling
      8.5
      TV Series
      • episode director
      • 2025

    Personal details

    • Alternative name
      • Kent Toya

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