Designer
Hisashi Hirai
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DesignerAnimator
- Native
- 平井久司
- Language
- Japanese
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Born
- May 27, 1964
- Hometown
- Tokyo, Japan
- Years active
- 1983–present
Hisashi Hirai is a Japanese animator, designer, illustrator and mangaka. He is best known for his character design work on Gundam SEED and the Fafner series.
Currently a freelancer. He began his career as an in-betweener for Nakamura Production and debuted in the 1983 TV series, Cat's Eye. He often worked on many outsourced episodes for Sunrise shows as a key animator and animation director.
In 1992 he would work on Dragon Slayer. An animated adaptation of the 1989 video game Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes by Nihon Falcom, his first major character design credit. Since then, he became more active as a character designer on numerous series. Most notably for Sunrise productions such as Infinite Ryvius, s-CRY-ed, and the aforementioned Gundam SEED series; which he had won the Character Design Prize for at the 3rd Tokyo International Anime Fair in 2004.
Hirai is also said to be a close friend of director Gorou Taniguchi.
