Director
Akio Watanabe
35 works · Active 1996–2025 · Avg score 72/100
Akio Watanabe has been directing since 1996, building a 35-title body of work with a community-average of 72/100. Their voice is most often heard in Supernatural, Drama, Mystery, with Bakemonogatari as a defining piece.
Signature works
- Bakemonogatari (2009)
- Nisemonogatari (2012)
- Monogatari Series Second Season (2013)
- Nekomonogatari Black (2012)
- The Fruit of Grisaia (2014)
- My Happy Marriage (2023)
Trademarks
Filmography
2020s
- 2025 — Grisaia: Phantom Trigger · TV
- 2024 — MONOGATARI Series: OFF & MONSTER Season · ONA
- 2023 — My Happy Marriage · TV
- 2023 — ONIMAI: I'm Now Your Sister! · TV
- 2023 — 16bit Sensation: Another Layer · TV
- 2022 — RWBY: Ice Queendom · TV
- 2022 — Bakemonogatari PV · SPECIAL
- 2021 — Higurashi: When They Cry - SOTSU · TV
- 2020 — Higurashi: When They Cry - GOU · TV
- 2020 — Grisaia: Phantom Trigger THE ANIMATION - Stargazer · MOVIE
2010s
- 2019 — Zoku Owarimonogatari · OVA
- 2019 — Grisaia: Phantom Trigger THE ANIMATION · MOVIE
- 2017 — Owarimonogatari Second Season · TV
- 2017 — Fireworks · MOVIE
- 2016 — Koyomimonogatari · ONA
- 2016 — Kubikiri Cycle: The Blue Savant and the Nonsense User · OVA
- 2016 — Koyomi History · OVA
- 2015 — Owarimonogatari · TV
- 2015 — The Labyrinth of Grisaia · SPECIAL
- 2014 — The Fruit of Grisaia · TV
- 2014 — Hanamonogatari · TV
- 2014 — Tsukimonogatari · TV
- 2013 — Monogatari Series Second Season · TV
- 2012 — Nisemonogatari · TV
- 2012 — Nekomonogatari Black · TV
- 2011 — FAIRY TAIL OVA · OVA
- 2010 — The World God Only Knows · TV
2000s
- 2009 — Bakemonogatari · TV
- 2006 — Hoshizora Kiseki · ONA
- 2001 — The SoulTaker · TV
1990s
- 1999 — Seraphim Call · TV
- 1999 — Soreyuke! Uchuu Senkan Yamamoto Youko (1999) · TV
- 1996 — Saber Marionette J · TV
- 1996 — Legend of Crystania · OVA