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name: "Tetsuaki Watanabe"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tetsuaki-watanabe"
fi1m_id: "tetsuaki-watanabe"
imdb_id: "nm8241968"
tmdb_id: 3055927
wikidata_id: "Q110147048"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T19:51:25.252054+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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# Tetsuaki Watanabe

## Identity

Tetsuaki Watanabe

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tetsuaki-watanabe
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tetsuaki-watanabe
- **IMDb ID:** nm8241968
- **TMDB ID:** 3055927
- **Wikidata ID:** Q110147048
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110147048, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8241968/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3055927

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Active:** 2014–present
- **Also known as:** 渡邊徹明, 渡邉 徹明
- **Frequently works with:** [Taku Kishimoto](https://film.one/person/taku-kishimoto.md), [Yasushi Muroya](https://film.one/person/yasushi-muroya.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110147048, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8241968/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3055927

## Coming up

- *The Vermilion Mask* (2026-10-10), Series Director

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Haikyu!!*](https://film.one/tv/haikyu.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Tetsuaki Watanabe is a Japanese animation director. He joined Production I.G in 2009 as a production manager and later worked as an episode director and storyboard artist on several series before becoming freelance around 2020.

He served as an episode director on *Haikyu!!* (2014) and directed *BLUE LOCK* (2022). Other credits include episode direction on *Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress* (2016) and direction on *Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26* (2025). He was mentored by directors Goro Taniguchi and Susumu Mitsunaka.

*Sources: anime-planet.com, imdb.com, myanimelist.net, en.namu.wiki.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Haikyu!!* (2014), Fi1m 80, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/haikyu.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

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

- *The Vermilion Mask* (2026), series, Series Director
- *Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26* (2025), series, Director, Screenplay, Storyboard Artist
- *BLUE LOCK* (2022), series, Series Director, Storyboard Artist, Director
- *BEM: BECOME HUMAN* (2020), Storyboard Artist, Second Unit Director
- *Case File N° 221: Kabukicho* (2019), series, Storyboard Artist, Director
- *Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files {Rail Zeppelin} Grace note* (2019), series, Director
- *Layton Mystery Detective Agency: Kat's Mystery‑Solving Files* (2018), series, Storyboard Artist, Director
- *Magical Circle Guruguru* (2017), series, Director
- *The Ancient Magus' Bride: Those Awaiting a Star* (2016), series, Director
- *Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress* (2016), series, Director
- *Maria the Virgin Witch* (2015), series, Key Animation, Director
- *Haikyu!!* (2014), series, Director, Storyboard Artist — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/haikyu.md)
- *Eden of the East* (2009), series, Production Assistant

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