Ei Aoki

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Given name: えい

Family name: あおき

Birthday: Jan 20, 1973

Website: http://www.est.hi-ho.ne...

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Also known as: [蒼井啓]

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	Aldnoah.Zero add Director
	Aldnoah.Zero 2nd Season add Director
	Angel Beats! add Storyboard (eps 3, 9)
	Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu add Storyboard (ep 4)
	Bakemonogatari add Storyboard (ep 10)
	Blood+ add Episode Director (ep 23)
	Blood+ add Storyboard (ep 23)
	Coyote Ragtime Show add Episode Director (eps 1, 11)
	Coyote Ragtime Show add Storyboard (eps 1, 11)
	Fate/Zero add Episode Director (eps 1, 8)
	Fate/Zero add Director
	Fate/Zero add Storyboard (eps 1, 8)
	Fate/Zero 2nd Season add Director
	Ga-Rei: Zero add Episode Director (eps 1, 12)
	Ga-Rei: Zero add Director
	Ga-Rei: Zero add Storyboard (eps 1, 2, 9, 10, 12)
	Girls Bravo: First Season add Director
	Girls Bravo: Second Season add Director
	Hourou Musuko add Storyboard (eps 1, 2, 6, 9-11)
	Hourou Musuko add Episode Director (eps 1, 11)
	Hourou Musuko add Director
	Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari add Storyboard (ep 9)
	Kara no Kyoukai 1: Fukan Fuukei add Director
	Kara no Kyoukai 3: Tsuukaku Zanryuu add Episode Director (ep 3 (Assistant))
	Kara no Kyoukai: Mirai Fukuin - Extra Chorus add Director
	Last Exile add Storyboard (ep 25)
	Last Exile add Episode Director (ep 25)
	Monkey Turn add Storyboard (ep 7)
	Onegai☆Teacher add Episode Director (eps 5, 11)
	Onegai☆Teacher add Storyboard (eps 5, 11)
	Onegai☆Twins add Episode Director (ep 11)
	Onegai☆Twins add Storyboard (ep 11)
	Planet:Valkyrie add Director
	Pumpkin Scissors add Storyboard (ep 18)
	Sasameki Koto add Storyboard (ep 11)
	Shangri-La add Storyboard (ep 7)
	Shuffle! add Episode Director (ep 19)
	Shuffle! add Storyboard (ep 19)
	Shuffle! Memories add Episode Director (eps 2, 7, 8, 11)
	Shuffle! Memories add Storyboard (eps 2, 7, 8, 11)
	Soukou no Strain add Storyboard (ep 13)
	Soukou no Strain add Episode Director (ep 13)
	Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpucho: Tou add Storyboard (ep 13)
	Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpucho: Tou add Episode Director (ep 13)
	Yarima Queen add Storyboard

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Meet the Bloodlines that Fight for the Holy Grail in Fate/Zero

Fate/Zero, directed by Ei Aoki, is an anime that tells us the story of the Fourth Holy Grail War. There are several mage bloodlines that compete to win the Holy Grail's wish. Keep on reading to learn all about them!

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Otanato | Sep 19, 10:15 PM

His directing is very good but he seems to have problems with world-building. Still one of my favorite directors.

Harmony | Jul 2, 8:07 PM

his directing is really good tbh, it's just that a.z made me sleep especially s2

MatijaxD | May 19, 1:27 PM

very mediocre

PeacingOut | Nov 24, 2015 11:22 PM

Unless directing one mega popular thing that was going to be so regardless automatically makes you a lifer top tier director/writer whatever who is untouchable and it kind of seems that way with anime then why is it this guy seems to be getting pushed so much as a top tier director. Honestly every show I've seen from him going back to Ga-Rei Zero is just so unrelentingly stiff with flat characters and quite often good seiyuu delivering lines as if they don't give a solitary shit and it's incredibly bizarre. The problem seems to get compounded whenever he's working with Gen Urobuchi scripts too who tends to write dialogue in that sort of flat stiff style that honestly seems like it would be hard for anyone to deliver well. They just seem like a poor match really, anyway agree with the guy that compared him to George Lucas as his knack for getting flat performances out of good actors creating curiously awkward droning dialogue scenes is oddly reminiscent of the man.

@Samu-Tan: I really didn't notice that big a difference between the first three episodes and the rest of the show other than it was very early in it's run and it still had time to decide where it wanted to go with things. Perhaps people would be better off just considering whether maybe that whole project was just ill-conceived from the get go and that the fault lies with just about everybody. It is possible for Gen Urobuchi to do sub par work, I don't know why people have such a hard time excepting it, I mean he is the original creator of the project after all, he does share his level of responsibility for it were it to be good or bad, but then why do I get this feeling that in some alternate universe where the show had gone on to be the smash hit genre show that it's creators wanted and he still only wrote three episodes that people would be heaping praise on Urobuchi as the sole reason for it's success instead of trying to deflect any and all criticisms of it away from him. Something like he got the ball rolling or it was his influence as original creator rubbing off on the project.

Anyway whatever, anime fans general inability to criticize that man even slightly is why I can hardly take him or his apparent infallible reputation seriously anymore. He's far from the only one that people just seem to heap praise on endlessly despite being little more than a bit player in the majority of anime that have been credited to him though.

WindBreaker | Sep 16, 2015 3:54 PM

Good Luck with the whole TROYCA thing! Hope it's a company to represent!

WindBreaker | Sep 16, 2015 3:48 PM

So...what I'm seeing is...The same guy who directed the AWESOME first season of Aldnoah, and Fate/Zero, is the SAME EXACT PERSON who directed Girls Bravo!?
Well, it's no wonder everything was amazing.

suikaMUSIC | Aug 30, 2015 3:02 PM

He directed both Fate/Zero and Hourou Musuko?! This guy is so versatile it's ridiculous...

mlcdl | Aug 16, 2015 10:01 AM

Haters on here sure didnt notice the fault at Aldnoah lies at scriptwriter? This guy is an amazing director. His best work has to be Wandering Son while my personal favorite would be Ga-rei: Zero and commonly favorite from his directory would be Fate/Zero.

Samu-tan | May 5, 2015 2:52 AM

It's too bad that A.0's writer was so bad (excluding Urobuchi for the first 3 amazing episodes), because this is a very talented director. I can forgive him for A.0 S2, because F/Z, Ga-Rei Zero and Hourou Musuko are all amazing shows.

Adab1za | Apr 28, 2015 9:47 AM

@radle

He wasn't thinking in anything he was the director not the script writer

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