Biography
Takafumi Hori (堀 剛史) is a Japanese animator, director and writer. He began his career at Nippon Animation and has worked extensively as a key animator and animation director on numerous anime productions.
Hori is credited with key animation on series and films including Naruto Shippūden (2007), Summer Wars (2009), Suzume (2022), Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (2023) and Kill la Kill (2013). He has maintained close ties to Studio Trigger while working as a freelancer.
In 2016 he wrote an episode of the American series Steven Universe and contributed animation to Steven Universe: The Movie (2019).
