
Taichi Ishidate
Director
Born: December 20, 1979 (46 years old)
Place of birth: Japan
Biography
Taichi Ishidate (石立 太一, Ishidate Taichi) was born in 1979. He is a Kyoto Animation animator and one of the teachers of the studio's animation school. One of the best action animators of the studio with notable use of effects, with equal skill with character animation. Learned a lot from Yoshiji Kigami while working under him on multiple projects. In the last few years, Ishidate focused more on directing rather than animating, directing some of the studio's main projects such as Violet Evergarden.
Filmography (34)
- K-ON! The Movie (2011, ★ 7.9)
- Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020, ★ 8.3)
- The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (2010, ★ 7.8)
- Violet Evergarden: Recollections (2021, ★ 8.5)
- A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016, ★ 8.4)
- Nichijou: My Ordinary Life (2011, ★ 8.4)
- The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2006, ★ 7.8)
- K-ON! (2009, ★ 8)
- Violet Evergarden (2018, ★ 8.5)
- InuYasha (2000, ★ 8.6)
- Beyond the Boundary: I'll Be Here – Future (2015, ★ 7.4)
- Tamako Love Story (2014, ★ 7.2)
- Beyond the Boundary (2013, ★ 8.1)
- Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (2017, ★ 8.3)
- Free! (2013, ★ 8.2)
- Sound! Euphonium (2015, ★ 7.9)
- Clannad (2007, ★ 8.3)
- CITY THE ANIMATION (2025, ★ 8.7)
- Amagi Brilliant Park (2014, ★ 7.2)
- Tamako Market (2013, ★ 7.3)
- Myriad Colors Phantom World (2016, ★ 7.6)
- Hyouka (2012, ★ 8.1)
- Lucky Star (2007, ★ 7.5)
- Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! (2012, ★ 8.1)
- High☆Speed!: Free! Starting Days (2015, ★ 6.9)
- Beyond the Boundary: I'll Be Here – Past (2015, ★ 6.9)
- Sound! Euphonium The Movie: May the Melody Reach You! (2017, ★ 7)
- Free! the Final Stroke the First Volume (2021, ★ 6.8)
- Tsurune (2018, ★ 7.1)
- Free! the Final Stroke the Second Volume (2022, ★ 6.1)