Tetsuro Araki

Director

1976-11-05 · Sayama, Saitama, Japan

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.

• Ataque a los Titanes: El arco y la flecha escarlata (2014) — Director
• Burbuja (2022) — Storyboard Artist, Director, Second Unit Director
• HIGHSCHOOL OF THE DEAD OVA (2011) — Director
• Death Note Relight: La visión de un Dios (2007) — Director
• Ataque a los Titanes: Las alas de la libertad (2015) — Director
• Ataque a los Titanes: El rugido del despertar (2018) — Director
• Shingeki no Kyojin: Chronicle (2020) — Director
• Death Note Relight 2: Los sucesores de L (2009) — Screenplay, Director
• El jardín de los pecadores: Paradigma paradoja (Paradoja espiral) (2008) — Key Animation
• Koutetsujou no Kabaneri Movie 3: Unato Kessen (2019) — Screenplay, Director
• Koutetsujou no Kabaneri Movie 2: Moeru Inochi (2017) — Director, Screenplay
• Koutetsujou no Kabaneri Movie 1: Tsudou Hikari (2016) — Director
• COLORs (2023) — Director, Second Unit Director
• おとぎ銃士 赤ずきん OVA (2005) — Director
• 甲鉄城のカバネリ 無名爛漫 (2026) — Director