Shinji Higuchi

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/shinji_higuchi) A notable director, special effects director and designer working on both tokusatsu and anime. He started his career in 1984 working on Godzilla as a modeler for the monsters. The same year he joined Daicon Film, working on the special effects of the tokusatsu movie *Yamata no Orochi no Gyakushu*, and later became one of the founding members of [Studio Gainax](https://anilist.co/studio/6/). In 1992 he established Studio [GONZO](https://anilist.co/studio/3/) alongside other ex-Gainax staff [Shouji Murahama](https://anilist.co/staff/119708/), [Hiroshi Yamaguchi](https://anilist.co/staff/97308/) and [Mahiro Maeda](https://anilist.co/staff/100392/). His most notable achievements in tokusatsu are working as special effects director for *Gamera: Guardian of the Universe* (1995), and as both special effects director and director, on *Shin Godzilla* (2016).