Director
Tetsuro Araki
Born 1976 · Sayama, Saitama, Japan
Tetsuro Araki (荒木 哲郎, Araki Tetsuro) is a Japanese anime director, best known as the director of the Death Note anime adaptation. He is married to editor Aya Hida. Araki is a graduate at Senshu University and worked with Madhouse before moving with Production I.G and later Wit Studio. His directorial debut was 2005's original video animation Otogi-Jūshi Akazukin. He is best known as the director of the Death Note, Highschool of the Dead and Attack on Titan anime adaptations. He is also the director of two original anime series Guilty Crown and Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, and the original anime fiilm Bubble. Araki, along with Death Note character designer Masaru Kitao, appeared at Anime Expo 2007.
Directed
Attack on Titan
Director · 2013
Death Note
Director · 2006
High School of the Dead
Series Director · 2010
Attack on Titan: Crimson Bow and Arrow
Director · 2014
Black Lagoon
Director · 2006
Attack on Titan: The Roar of Awakening
Director · 2018
Attack on Titan: Wings of Freedom
Director · 2015
Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God
Director · 2007
High School of the Dead: Drifters of the Dead
Director · 2011
Bubble
Director · 2022
Attack on Titan: Chronicle
Director · 2020
Guilty Crown
Director · 2011
Death Note Relight 2: L's Successors
Director · 2009
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
Series Director · 2016
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: The Battle of Unato
Director · 2019
Gungrave
Director · 2003
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX
Director · 2025
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: Life That Burns
Director · 2017
