Yasufumi Soejima

Yasufumi Soejima
Japanese Name	ソエジマ ヤスフミ
Profile
Birthday	March 13, 1971
Gender	Male
Blood Type	A
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Animation director CGI Artist
Favorites
Likes	Nobuyuki Fukumoto
Other Information
Affiliation	David Production
Media
Anime Debut	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation
Website	タイヨウノ：トウ

Yasufumi Soejima (ソエジマ ヤスフミ, Soejima Yasufumi) 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 / CGI director. Several of the endings and openings were supervised by him.

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

Credits

Tiger Balm Garden by Soejima

JoJo Great Festival Brochure

• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation
  • Ending Animation Director: Ending 1Ending 2
  • Ending Animation Storyboard: Ending 2
  • Visual Director
  • 3D CG: Episode 1Episode 2Episode 7Episode 14Episode 15Episode 17Episode 18Episode 19Episode 21Episode 23Episode 24Episode 25
  • 3D Modeling: Episode 6Episode 15Episode 19Episode 24Episode 26
  • Key Animation: Episode 1Episode 8Episode 9Episode 10Episode 16
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders
  • Ending Animation Director: Ending 1Ending 2Ending 3
  • Ending Animation Storyboard: Ending 1 Ending 2Ending 3
  • Ending Animation Color Coordinator: Ending 1
  • Storyboard: Episode 8Episode 22Episode 33Episode 40
  • Episode Director: Episode 8Episode 18Episode 33Episode 40Episode 47
  • Assistant Episode Director: Episode 25
  • Key Animation: Episode 6Episode 7
  • 3DCGI: Episode 1Episode 22Episode 34
  • 3D Modeling: Episode 9
  • Background Scenery Corrections: Episode 5
  • Background Scenery Model Sheets
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable
  • Storyboard: Episode 6Episode 15Episode 26Episode 31Episode 32Episode 33
  • Episode Director: Episode 4Episode 6Episode 14Episode 24Episode 30Episode 31Episode 32Episode 33Episode 37
  • Ending Animation 3DCGI: Ending 1
  • Ending Animation Direction: Ending 1
  • Ending Animation Storyboard: Ending 1
  • Opening Animation 3DCGI: Opening 2
  • Opening Animation Director: Opening 2Opening 3
  • Opening Animation Storyboard: Opening 2Opening 3
  • Scenery Corrections: Episode 20
  • Key Animation: Episode 32Episode 33
  • 3DCGI: Episode 28
• Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (OVA)
  • Deputy Director: Episode 5
  • Assistant Director: Episode 2
  • Storyboard: Episode 5Episode 2
  • Opening Animation Director: Opening 1Opening 2
  • Opening Animation Storyboard: Opening 1Opening 2
  • Opening Animation Photography: Opening 1Opening 2
  • Opening Animation Editing: Opening 1Opening 2
  • 3DCGI: Episode 5

Gallery

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  Walk like Crusaders Brochure

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  Last Crusaders Event Brochure

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  JoJo raDIO Event Brochure

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  Last Train Home storyboard

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  DU Episode 6 Storyboard

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  DU Episode 6 Storyboard

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  DU Episode 6 Storyboard

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  DU Episode 6 Storyboard

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  Yasufumi with Mahiro Maeda and Akemi Hayashi (2007)

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  Yasufumi with Daisuke Ono (2015)

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  Yasufumi with Kenta Miyake, Masahiko Komino, Daisuke Ono and Naokatsu Tsuda

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 Singapore. Having worked there a few times, he's a big fan of the "hot and passionate" atmosphere, as well as Little India's food stalls. The anime's setting in the Devil story arc was modeled after an actual hotel Soejima had stayed in while in Singapore.