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name: "Yoko Kanamori"
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roles: ["Assistant director","Director"]
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updated: "2026-09-17T22:08:30.030657+00:00"
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# Yoko Kanamori

Assistant director and director.

## Details

- **Work:** Assistant director, Director
- **Also known as:** Yoko Kanemori, Youko Kanemori, 金森 陽子, Yōko Kanemori, Youko Kanamori, Yōko Kanamori
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8684907/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2323737

## Streaming the US now

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

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## Biography

Yōko Kanamori, also credited as Yoko Kanemori or Youko Kanamori, is a Japanese animation director and storyboard artist. She began her career at Studio Pierrot as a production manager around 2011, working on series such as *Beelzebub* (2011–2012) and *White Bear Café* (2012–2013), before becoming a freelancer.

She has contributed as episode director and storyboard artist on numerous anime, including *Attack on Titan* (2013), *Yona of the Dawn* (2014), *Seraph of the End* (2015), *Mob Psycho 100* (2016), *The Ancient Magus' Bride* (2017), *Boruto: Naruto Next Generations* (2017), *Run with the Wind* (2018), *Great Pretender* (2020), and *Natsume's Book of Friends* (various seasons). She made her debut as series director on *'Tis Time for "Torture," Princess* (2024).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

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

## Complete filmography (16)

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

- *The Grimm Variations* (2024), series, Director
- *Tis Time for "Torture," Princess* (2024), series, Series Director
- *SPY x FAMILY* (2022), series, Storyboard Artist
- *Ranking of Kings* (2021), series, Storyboard Artist
- *Otherside Picnic* (2021), series, Storyboard Artist
- *Great Pretender* (2020), series, Director, Storyboard Artist
- *Run with the Wind* (2018), series, Storyboard Artist, Director
- *The Ancient Magus' Bride* (2017), series, Director, Assistant Director, Storyboard Artist, Co-Director
- *Boruto: Naruto Next Generations* (2017), series, Storyboard Artist, Director
- *Mob Psycho 100* (2016), series, Director
- *Seraph of the End* (2015), series, Director
- *The Rolling Girls* (2015), series, Director
- *Yona of the Dawn* (2014), series, Director
- *Attack on Titan* (2013), series, Assistant Director, Director, Storyboard Artist — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/attack-on-titan.md)
- *Natsume's Book of Friends* (2008), series, Storyboard Artist, Director
- *Naruto Shippūden* (2007), series, Production Assistant

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