Tetsuya Nishio

Nishio graduated from Nagoya Designer Academy and started his career at Anime Spot, a subcontracting studio, after being refused in interviews with several animation studios. He debuted as an in-betweener on [Osomatsu-kun](https://anilist.co/anime/9883/) and as a key animator on [Laughing Salesman](https://anilist.co/anime/3077/). It's on [Yu Yu Hakusho](https://anilist.co/anime/392//) that Nishio came into his own as an animator, developing weighty and realistic movements influenced by [Satoru Utsunomiya](https://anilist.co/staff/101489/). Thanks to the ability demonstrated there, he was chosen to design the characters for [Ninku](https://anilist.co/anime/912/). After working as character designer and chief animation director on [Jin-Roh](https://anilist.co/anime/570/) he permanently joined Production I.G. where he became known, together with [Hiroyuki Okiura](https://anilist.co/staff/103502/) and [Kazuchika Kise](https://anilist.co/staff/115781/), as "The Three Gods of I.G." [Masashi Kishimoto](https://anilist.co/staff/96879/) requested for Nishio to be the character designer of the Naruto anime. In August 2020, he was promoted to company director of Production I.G alongside [Takayuki Gotou](https://anilist.co/staff/103266/Takayuki-Gotou/), a co-founder of the studio.