Yasufumi Soejima

Yasufumi Soejima (ソエジマ ヤスフミ) is a Japanese CGI Artist credited for his work on the TV adaptation of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure by David Production. He is notable for being the series' Visual / director. Several of the endings and openings were supervised by him.

After graduating from, Soejima worked at until 1999 before he would transfer to Studio  as the chief art director. He is currently affiliated with David Production and has worked as part of the CGI direction for series like and.

Credits

 * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation
 * Ending Animation Director (ED 1, ED 2)
 * Ending Animation Storyboard (ED 2)
 * Visual Director
 * 3D CG (David Production)
 * 3D Modeling (David Production)
 * Key Animation (eps 1, 8-10, 16)


 * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders
 * Ending Animation Director (ED 1, ED 2)
 * Ending Animation Storyboard (ED 1, ED 2, ED 3)
 * Ending Animation Color Coordinator (ED 1)
 * Storyboard (eps 8, 22, 33, 40)
 * Episode Director (eps 8, 18, 33, 40, 47)
 * 3D CG (david production; eps 1-3, 10, 22, 34)
 * Background Scenery Corrections (ep 5)
 * Art Setting
 * Assistant Episode Director (ep 25)


 * JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable
 * Storyboard (ED; eps 6, 15, 26, 31-33)
 * Episode Director (eps 4, 6, 14, 24, 30, 31-33, 37)
 * Unit Director (ED)
 * 3D CG (ED)
 * Ending Animation 3D CG (ED 1)
 * Ending Animation Direction (ED 1)
 * Ending Animation Storyboard (ED 1)
 * Opening Animation 3DCGI (OP 2)
 * Opening Animation Director (OP 2, OP 3)
 * Opening Animation Storyboard (OP 2, OP 3)
 * Key Animation (eps 32-33)


 * Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (OVA)
 * Deputy Director (ep 5)
 * Assistant Director (ep 2)
 * Storyboard (eps 5,2)
 * Opening Animation Director
 * Opening Animation Storyboard
 * Opening Animation Photography
 * Opening Animation Editing

Trivia

 * Aside from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Soejima is notably one of Hirohiko Araki's oldest fans within the TV anime staff, having read and enjoyed Cool Shock B.T., Baoh the Visitor, and Gorgeous Irene while they were in serialization.
 * Soejima's favorite country is . Having worked there a few times, he's a big fan of the "hot and passionate" atmosphere, as well as food stalls. The anime's setting in the Devil story arc was modeled after an actual hotel Soejima had stayed in while in Singapore.