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name: "Shin Wakabayashi"
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roles: ["Director"]
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average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:09:36.168923+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Shin Wakabayashi

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Also known as:** 若林 信
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4541897/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2394610

## Streaming the US now

- **Crunchyroll:** [*Attack on Titan*](https://film.one/tv/attack-on-titan.md) (83)

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## Biography

Shin Wakabayashi, also credited as 若林 信, is a Japanese anime director, episode director, storyboard artist and animator. He began working in the industry in the late 2000s, contributing key animation to series such as *Toradora!* (2008) and *Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood* (2009).

He worked on *Attack on Titan* (2013) as episode director, storyboard artist and key animator for episode 18. Wakabayashi has directed episodes of *ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept.* (2017) and *Eromanga Sensei* (2017). He served as series director on *Wonder Egg Priority* (2021). Previously affiliated with XEBEC, he now works as a freelancer and has been involved in training directors at CloverWorks.

*Sources: anime-planet.com, animenewsnetwork.com, imdb.com, myanimelist.net, anilist.co.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Attack on Titan* (2013), Fi1m 83, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/attack-on-titan.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *7FATES: CHAKHO* (2025), Director, Storyboard Artist, Screenplay
- *My Dress-Up Darling* (2022), series, Storyboard Artist
- *Wonder Egg Priority* (2021), series, Series Director, Director, Assistant Director, Storyboard Artist
- *ACCA: 13-Territory Inspection Dept.* (2017), series, Director, Storyboard Artist
- *Working!!! Lord of the Takanashi* (2016), Director
- *Hunter x Hunter: The Last Mission* (2013), Key Animation
- *Attack on Titan* (2013), series, Director, Key Animation, Storyboard Artist — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/attack-on-titan.md)
- *Oreshura* (2013), series, Key Animation
- *X-Men* (2011), series, Key Animation
- *High School of the Dead* (2010), series, Key Animation
- *The Tatami Galaxy* (2010), series, Key Animation
- *Wagnaria!!* (2010), series, Key Animation, Opening/Ending Animation
- *Aoi Bungaku Series* (2009), series, Key Animation
- *Monogatari* (2009), series, Storyboard Artist
- *Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood* (2009), series, Key Animation
- *Psychic Squad* (2008), series, Key Animation
- *I Fall in Love With You Through a Robot*, Director

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