Hibiki Yoshizaki

• Name — Hibiki Yoshizaki • Born — 10 March 1980 • Birthplace — Tokyo, Japan • Known for — ME!ME!ME! GIRL Kirai, Demo, Suki Eve's Mob (Bōto) • Occupation — Video artist, animator, music video director, art director, motion graphics designer

Yoshizaki was born in Tokyo, Japan. At the age of 16, he was deeply impressed by Kōji Morimoto's MV "Extra" (music by Ken Ishii), which inspired him to work in animation. As a high school student, he started working in Gainax under the guidance of Hiroyuki Yamaga. He then entered Tama Art University and started working as a VJ in nightclubs all around Tokyo while studying animation under the mentorship of Kōji Morimoto at Studio 4°C. After graduation, he became a freelance motion graphics designer and art director, mainly for animated music videos and promotional videos. In 2011, for making Clammbon's Kanade Dance MV, he was selected as one of the top 100 video artists of the year in a magazine published by BNN Shinsha, Japan. In 2014, he created the first-two original animated music videos "ME!ME!ME!" and "GIRL" in collaboration with TeddyLoid and Daoko. It was made as the 3rd and 31st episode of Japan Animator Expo, which has gone viral with over 100 million views on YouTube and achieved the highest number of views among all 36 episodes in the project. After working as a freelance art director for 18 years, he joined Khara in 2016. In 2022, Yoshizaki collaborated with Eve to produce an animated music video, "Mob (Bōto)", which also featured in a musical film, Adam by Eve: A Live in Animation in collaboration with Netflix. Loosely inspired by George Orwell's novel 1984, the visuals depict the story of a masked high school girl who struggles with an existential crisis and begins to become aware of her mundane existence after realizing she is being constantly watched and controlled by nightmarish one-eyed entities.

• Year — Television — Notes • 2008 — Macross Frontier — Motion graphics • 2013 — AKB0048: Next Stage — Opening director and storyboard artist • 2024 — Kaiju No. 8 — Opening director

• Year — OVA — Notes • 2003-2004 — Macross Zero — Motion graphics • 2005 — Gundam Evolve — CG • 2013 — Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta — Opening director, storyboard artist, and motion graphics • 2013-2014 — Yozakura Quartet: Tsuki ni Naku — Opening director, storyboard artist • 2014 — Psycho-Pass 2 — Subtitle design

• Year — Music video — Artist — Notes — Ref • 2014 — ME!ME!ME! — TeddyLoid feat. Daoko — Director, unit director, editor, compositor, storyboard artist, visual effects, and original creator • 2015 — ME!ME!ME! CHRONIC — TeddyLoid feat. Daoko — Director, storyboard artist, and original creator • 2015 — GIRL — Daoko — Director, storyboard artist, and original creator • 2016 — Sakura Nagashi — Hikaru Utada — Director • 2016 — The Asahi Shimbun — Motohiro Onishi — Director • 2022 — Adam by Eve: A Live in Animation: Mob (Bōto) — Eve — Director

• Year — Music video — Artist — Notes • 2007 — Believe — i-dep — Director • 2009 — Room #204 — Jazztronik — Director • 2010 — KANADE DANCE — Clammbon — Director

• Year — Video game — Notes • 2003 — Star Ocean: Till the End of Time — Item designer • 2013 — Ace Combat Infinity — Cinematics and motion graphics • 2019 — Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown — Cinematics director

• Year — Commercial — Notes • 2016 — HAL Tokyo College of Technology & Design: Kirai, Demo, Suki — Director