Mitsuo Fukuda

Mitsuo Fukuda, born on October 28, 1960, in Tochigi Prefecture, is a Japanese animation director and scriptwriter. A graduate of Waseda Senior High School, where he belonged to the manga research society, he joined Sunrise in 1979 at nineteen and considers himself a disciple of the director Takeyuki Kanda. For the OVA series Future GPX Cyber Formula SAGA he brought in the screenwriter Chiaki Morosawa, a family friend whom he later married and who handled series composition on nearly all of his subsequent work until her death in 2016. His principal credits include Future GPX Cyber Formula, Gear Fighter Dendoh, and the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED series; although freelance since Dragonar, he has worked almost exclusively on Sunrise productions, in close association with the former Sunrise executives Takayuki Yoshii and Naotake Furusato.