Ei Aoki

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Ei Aoki (あおき えい, Aoki Ei, born 1973) is a Japanese storyboard artist and director. He credits the anime Megazone 23 as his inspiration to have a career in animation.^[2] In 2013, he created the animation studio Troyca with Toshiyuki Nagano and Tomonobu Kato,^[3] which began animation production on its first work in the fall of 2014. Aoki is the director behind Girls Bravo, The Garden of Sinners: Overlooking View, Ga-Rei: Zero, Wandering Son, Fate/Zero, Aldnoah.Zero, Re:Creators, and Id:Invaded.