Yasuomi Umetsu

Yasuomi Umetsu
梅津 泰臣
Born	(1960-12-19) December 19, 1960 Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation(s)	animator, director, writer, storyboard artist
Years active	1981–present
Employer	Tsuchida Production (~1980)
Known for	Kite series Mezzo series Wizard Barristers

Yasuomi Umetsu (梅津 泰臣, Umetsu Yasuomi, born December 19, 1960) is a Japanese animator, director, writer, and storyboard artist.

Career

Umetsu studied at the Chiyoda Gakuen Educational Corporation and was originally not interested in pursuing a career in the anime industry, and instead wanted to pursue a career as a manga artist. While in his 20s, he drew a short manga for Kodansha and decided to give up on pursuing manga due to feeling that it wasn't for him. After graduating from vocational school, he had trouble finding a job, and was introduced to Tsuchida Production through the head of the department at his school, but he felt that the company's style didn't suit him and did work for other companies in the industry eventually resulting in his firing after 1-2 months.

Following his brief employment with Tsuchida Production, Umetsu became involved with Toei Animation where he worked as an in-between animator and 2nd key animator for projects like Arcadia of My Youth (1982) and the 1981 American Spider-Man series. At the studio, he worked in the same room as Masami Suda, whom Umetsu learned much from in regard to key animation. Eventually, he was promoted to animation director for Stop!! Hibari-kun! (1983); however, his seniors at the company gave him a hard time since he was only 23 years old. When he became too uncomfortable with the environment, he moved to Madhouse, as he had an interest in working on Harmagaddon (1983) due to the involvement of Katsuhiro Otomo as character designer and had been invited by Masao Maruyama to work with the company. During his time with Madhouse, he was also influenced by director Yoshiaki Kawajiri, who taught him to consciously think about perspective and eye level. He participated in Megazone 23 (1985) as an animator and storyboard artist and was subsequently asked to do the original character designs for the bikers in Part II (1986), but he ended up doing the main characters for fun as well. He showed the president of AIC, Tooru Miura, and director Ichiro Itano, and the two opted to use Umetsu's designs for all of the characters. Following this decision, Umetsu apologized to the character designer of the first OVA, Toshiki Hirano. Umetsu was left dissatisfied with his work on the OVA as chief animation director, and didn't participate as an animation director again until 1987 when he was invited by Hiroyuki Kitakubo to participate on the Robot Carnival anthology. His contribution to the Robot Carnival anthology also marked his debut as a writer and director.

Throughout the 80s and early-to-mid 90s, Umetsu continued to work on projects as an animator, animation director, and character designer. Two particular works were OVAs made at Tatsunoko Production and based on already-existing IPs from the studio, but he felt that director Yukihiro Matsushita (who was in charge of both) did not have a love for the works, so when the job for another OVA (New Hurricane Polymar, 1996) was given to him, he asked for help from J.C.Staff in producing the series and for them to lend a director. J.C.Staff provided the project with director Akiyuki Shinbo, who himself was a fan of Tatsuo Yoshida (Tatsunoko Production's founder) and other works the studio had made. Unlike the previous OVAs, Shinbo used bande dessinée as the basis of his inspiration; and despite such a change, Umetsu stated that he thought that the team succeeded in creating the atmosphere that Shinbo wanted. Reminiscing on the project, Shinbo noted that near the end of its production, Umetsu had once come up to him with an uncolored cel and asked him about colors, as Umetsu intended to color it himself.

In 1998, Umetsu created, wrote, designed the characters for, and directed the hentai OVA Kite produced by Arms. The film was released in several versions, but there are two prominent editions: an R-18 hentai version released in two-parts, and a single international version which removes the sexual content. Though the film has received much controversy for its sexual abuse content, the film has been praised as well. A writer from Anime News Network described it as a "painful, violent beauty", with note of its "gritty realism" in style and atmosphere and "expertly told" storytelling. The film has also inspired several works in the west. For example, several scenes in the music video directed by Hype Williams for the song "Ex-Girlfriend" by No Doubt are based on Kite; and director-writer Quentin Tarantino recommended Kite as part of actress Chiaki Kuriyama's preparations for her role as Gogo Yubari in the first Kill Bill (2003) film. While Umetsu continued to work freelance (not directly belonging to a studio through employment), he produced his most major works with Arms for the next decade: a second hentai OVA (also with a cut international version) titled Mezzo Forte (2000); a sequel television series, Mezzo DSA (2004); and a sequel to Kite, Kite Liberator (2008). He also contributed the character designs to Nakoruru: Ano Hito kara no Okurimono (2002), studio Arms' first non-hentai work.

Throughout the years, Umetsu regularly directed openings and endings to various TV anime including his own, which he gained prominence for. He often contributed to other Arms works or affiliated studios Pierrot and Pierrot Plus (High School Girls ED, Tegami Bachi Reverse ED); but he freelanced for various sites.

An issue that Umetsu noticed in his own works was that he often took on too much of the work himself, and in a talk with Shinbo references to Kite Liberator, which he says he directed, wrote, and designed the characters for (as well as further unmentioned work), which often leads to him overworking himself. He described Kite Liberator as "hell" to work on because of the workload, saying that he spent an entire year without taking any Sundays off and sometimes sleeping at the studio for five days straight. In spite of the overwork, Kite Liberator is distinct in that it was Umetsu's first attempt to utilize 3DCG animation and a more contemporary style of work. For the 3DCG in the film, the team collaborated with Digital Frontier, whom Umetsu was aware of due to their work on the 2006 Death Note live-action films.

Due to the overwork problems, Umetsu tried to allocate the labor more evenly among his collaborators in his next project, Galilei Donna (2013), which was produced at A-1 Pictures. Though he created and directed the series, and was personally involved with other aspects of it, the character designs were instead done by Shingo Adachi, and the screenplay was split to four writers. In 2014, he also directed his last work with studio Arms, Wizard Barristers. Arms stopped producing series in 2017, and most of its staff seemingly left the company or joined its sister studio at Pierrot Plus (now Studio Signpost), with the company itself changed its name to Common Sense (keeping Arms as a trade name); and in 2020, the company officially filed for bankruptcy. Umetsu had also planned a film with Arms a decade prior titled Kiss and Cry; however, for unknown reasons, the film never premiered and was never officially cancelled.

After his last major work in 2014, Umetsu continued to contribute mainly to openings and endings to various series and occacsionally participating as a key animator for some works. In 2015, for example, Umetsu directed the opening to Gourmet Girl Graffiti. He also designed the characters for Pierrot's Dynamic Chord (2017) and made the character design drafts for Kokkoku (2018).

Since 2018, Umetsu has based his work out of studio Shaft, where he has been working on another project for several years. He did key animation for some episodes of Magia Record (2020–2022) and was directly named by series assistant director Midori Yoshizawa as one of the contributing artists to the final episode. In 2021, he directed the opening to Pretty Boy Detective Club, which Shinbo said he was proud of despite the shorter production period he described it having. He participated in the Shaft-outsourced episode of The Café Terrace and its Goddesses in 2023 to support episode director Kouji Matsumura, a friend of his who was formerly at Pierrot Plus and Arms and had moved to Shaft in the mid-2010s. That year, he also contributed to The Quintessential Quintuplets∽ due to Matsumura directing an episode. Alongside Shouji Saeki, Umetsu has also had a strong influence on the younger staff according to animator Kazuya Shiotsuki.

Umetsu's lengthy production was finally unveiled in 2024 as a film series titled Virgin Punk with its first part slated for a summer 2025 release. According to Umetsu, the project started pre-production at the end of 2014.

Style

Describing his own philosophies in his work, Umetsu has said that he avoids being too self-satisfying or too self-indulgent, but that he also is conscious of not making something that he's dissatisfied otherwise the "customers" (audience) to his "restaurant" (works) will be unhappy. He also feels that his works have been limited due to the state of the industry. In particular, he states that there are few animators who are good at action sequences, and Umetsu's works tend to have many action sequences in them. With an oversaturation of works being made and too little resources to cover them all, resources in general can be hard to come by; and in response to this, Umetsu has considered relying more on 3DCG animation and consciously making the decision to have less action scenes to make up for the lack of action animators.

Director Akiyuki Shinbo, himself regarded for his color style by Umetsu, has noted Umetsu's particular use of color as well.

Works

  "In Director(s)" column higlights Umetsu's directorial works.

Television series

Year	Title	Director(s)	Studio	CD	SB	ED	AD	KA	Other roles and notes	Ref(s)
1981	Spider-Man	—	—	No	No	No	No	No	In-between animator
	Tiger Mask II	Kouzou Morishita	Toei Animation	No	No	No	No	No	In-between animator
1982	Arcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit SSX	Tomoharu Katsumata Masamitsu Sasaki	Toei Animation	No	No	No	No	Yes
1984	Galactic Patrol Lensman	Hiroshi Fukutomi	Madhouse	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
	Fist of the North Star	Toyoo Ashida	Toei Animation	No	No	No	No	Yes	Uncredited
1985	Zeta Gundam	Yoshiyuki Tomino	Sunrise	No	No	No	No	Yes	Ending
2002	Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	Kenji Kamiyama	Production I.G	No	No	No	No	Yes
2003	Last Exile	Koichi Chigira	Gonzo	No	No	No	No	Yes
	R.O.D the TV	Koji Masunari	J.C.Staff	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
2004	Mezzo DSA	Yasuomi Umetsu	Arms	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Original creator Screenplay
	Elfen Lied	Mamoru Kanbe	Arms	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad	Osamu Kobayashi	Madhouse	No	No	No	Yes	No
	Bleach	Noriyuki Abe	Pierrot	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha	Akiyuki Shinbo	Seven Arcs	No	No	No	No	Yes
2005	Trinity Blood	Tomohiro Hirata	Gonzo	No	No	No	No	Yes
2006	High School Girls	Yoshitaka Fujimoto	Arms	No	No	No	No	No	Ending director, storyboard artist, & key animator
	Welcome to the N.H.K.	Yuusuke Yamamoto	Gonzo	No	No	No	No	Yes	Opening
2007	Ikki Tousen: Dragon Destiny	Koichi Ohata	Arms	No	No	No	No	Yes
2008	Casshern Sins	Shigeyasu Yamauchi	Madhouse	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Hyakko	Michio Fukuda	Nippon Animation	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens	Yutaka Yamamoto	A-1 Pictures	No	No	No	No	Yes
2009	Valkyria Chronicles	Yasutaka Yamamoto	A-1 Pictures	No	No	No	No	No	Opening director, storyboard artist, & animation director
	Pandora Hearts	Takao Kato	Xebec	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Queen's Blade: The Exiled Virgin	Kinji Yoshitomo	Arms	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Tokyo Magnitude 8.0	Masaki Tachibana	Bones Kinema Citrus	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Tegami Bachi	Akira Iwanaga	Pierrot+	No	No	No	No	Yes
2010	And Yet the Town Moves	Akiyuki Shinbo	Shaft	No	No	No	No	No	Opening director, storyboard artist, animation director, & key animator
	Tegami Bachi Reverse	Akira Iwanaga	Pierrot+	No	No	No	No	No	Ending director, storyboard artist, animation director, & key animator
	Sound of the Sky	Mamoru Kanbe	A-1 Pictures	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Shoka	Makoto Yamada	Production I.G	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Working!!	Yoshimasa Hiraike	A-1 Pictures	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Big Windup!	Tsutomu Mizushima	A-1 Pictures	No	No	No	No	No	2nd key animator
	Occult Academy	Tomohiko Itō	A-1 Pictures	No	No	No	No	Yes
2011	Beelzebub	Yoshihiro Takamoto	Pierrot+	No	No	No	No	No	Opening key animator Ending director, storyboard artist, & animation director}}
	Blood-C	Tsutomu Mizushima	Production I.G	No	No	No	No	Yes	Opening director & storyboard artist
	Fractale	Yutaka Yamamoto	A-1 Pictures Ordet	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Puella Magi Madoka Magica	Akiyuki Shinbo Yukihiro Miyamoto	Shaft	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Blue Exorcist	Tensei Okamura	A-1 Pictures	No	No	No	No	Yes
	No.6	Kenji Nagasaki	Bones	No	No	No	No	Yes
	The Idolmaster	Atsushi Nishigori	A-1 Pictures	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Working'!!	Atsushi Ootsuki	A-1 Pictures	No	No	No	No	Yes
2012	Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero	Rion Kujo	Arms	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Code: Breaker	Yasuhiro Irie	Kinema Citrus	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Blast of Tempest	Masahiro Andou	Bones	No	No	No	No	Yes
2013	Galilei Donna	Yasuomi Umetsu	A-1 Pictures	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Original creator Original concept
	Maoyu	Takeo Takahashi	Arms	No	No	No	No	Yes
2014	Wizard Barristers	Yasuomi Umetsu	Arms	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Original concept Series composition Chief animation director Opening/ending director, storyboard artist, & animation director
2015	Isuca	Akira Iwanaga	Arms	No	No	No	No	No	Ending director, storyboard artist, and key animator
	Gourmet Girl Graffiti	Akiyuki Shinbo Naoyuki Tatsuwa	Shaft	No	No	No	No	No	Opening director & storyboard artist
	Seraph of the End	Daisuke Tokuda	Wit Studio	No	No	No	No	No	Opening director & storyboard artist
	Gangsta.	Shūkō Murase Kōichi Hatsumi	Manglobe	No	No	No	No	No	Opening director & storyboard artist
	Gunslinger Stratos	Shinpei Ezaki	A-1 Pictures	No	No	No	No	No	Ending director, storyboard artist, & key animator
	Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid	Hiraku Kaneko	Arms	No	No	No	No	Yes
2016	Dimension W	Kanta Kamei	3Hz	No	No	No	No	No	Opening director, storyboard artist, animation director, key animator, & in-between inspector
	Bungo Stray Dogs	Takuya Igarashi	Bones	No	No	No	No	No	Ending director, storyboard artist, animation director, & key animator
	Twin Star Exorcists	Tomohisa Taguchi	Pierrot	No	No	No	No	No	Opening director, storyboard artist, & animation director
	Bungo Stray Dogs Season 2	Takuya Igarashi	Bones	No	No	No	No	No	Ending director, storyboard artist, & animation director
	Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru	Takashi Naoya	Doga Kobo	No	No	No	No	No	Opening director
	High School Fleet	Yuu Nobuta	Production IMS	No	No	No	No	Yes
	The Morose Mononokean	Akira Iwanaga	Pierrot+	No	No	No	No	No	Eyecatch
	Persona 5: The Animation - The Day Breakers	Takaharu Ozaki	A-1 Pictures	No	No	No	No	Yes
2017	ēlDLIVE	Jouji Furuta	Pierrot	No	No	No	No	No	Ending director, storyboard artist, & animation director
	Dynamic Chord	Shigenori Kageyama	Pierrot	Yes	No	No	No	No
2018	Kokkoku: Moment by Moment	Yoshimitsu Oohashi	Geno Studio	No	No	No	No	No	Original character design Ending director & storyboard artist
	Fate/Extra: Last Encore	Akiyuki Shinbo Yukihiro Miyamoto	Shaft	No	No	No	No	Yes
2020	Magia Record	Doroinu	Shaft	No	No	No	No	Yes
2021	Pretty Boy Detective Club	Akiyuki Shinbo Hajime Ootani	Shaft	No	No	No	No	No	Opening director, storyboard artist, & animation director
2022	Magia Record: Dawn of a Shallow Dream	Doroinu Yukihiro Miyamoto	Shaft	No	No	No	No	Yes
2023	The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses	Satoshi Kuwabara	Tezuka Productions	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Fate/strange Fake	Shun Enokido Takahito Sakazume	A-1 Pictures	No	No	No	No	Yes
	The Quintessential Quintuplets∽	Yukihiro Miyamomto	Shaft	No	No	No	No	Yes

OVAs

Year	Title	Director(s)	Studio	CD	SB	ED	AD	KA	Other roles and notes	Ref(s)
1985	Megazone 23	Noboru Ishiguro	AIC Artland	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
1986	Megazone 23 Part II	Ichiro Itano	AIC Artland Artmic	(Original)	No	No	No	Yes	Chief animation director
	Outlanders	Katsuhisa Yamada	Tatsunoko Production	No	No	No	No	Yes
1987	Robot Carnival: Presence	Yasuomi Umetsu	Oh! Production	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Screenplay
	Lily C.A.T.	Hisayuki Toriumi	Pierrot	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
	The Incredible Gyoukai Video Junk Boy	Katsuhisa Yamada	Madhouse	No	No	No	No	No	Ending animation
1989	Cleopatra DC	Naoyuki Yoshinaga	J.C.Staff	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Angel Cop	Ichiro Itano	DAST Corporation	No	No	No	Yes	No
	Dog Soldier	Hiroyuki Ebata	J.C.Staff	No	No	No	No	Yes
1990	Devilman: The Demon Bird	Tsutomu Iida	Oh! Production	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Nineteen 19	Koichi Chigira	Madhouse	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Angel	Hideki Takayama	Project Team Muu	No	No	No	No	Yes
	The Hakkenden	Takashi Annou	AIC	No	No	No	No	Yes
1991	Urotsukidoji II: Legend of the Demon Womb	Hideki Takayama	Phoenix Entertainment	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Yumemakura Baku Twilight Gekijou	Saeko Aoki (1)	Pierrot	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
	Soukou Kyojin Z-Knight	Fumihiko Takayama	Sunrise	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
	Eiyuu Gaiden Mozaicka	Ryōsuke Takahashi	Studio Deen	No	No	No	No	Yes
1992	Gensou Jotan Ellcia	Yoriyasu Kogawa	J.C.Staff	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
	Oz	Katsuhisa Yamada	Madhouse	No	No	No	No	Yes
1993	Casshan: Robot Hunter	Hiroyuki Fukushima	Tatsunoko Production	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
1994	Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai	Hiroko Tokita	Group TAC	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Chief animation director
	Gatchaman	Hiroyuki Fukushima	Tatsunoko Production	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
	Homeroom Affairs	Osamu Sekita	J.C.Staff	No	No	No	No	Yes
1995	Cool Devices Operation 07: Yellow Star	Yasuomi Umetsu	Honey Dip	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Original creator Screenplay
	Kodocha	Iku Suzuki	J.C.Staff	No	No	No	No	Yes
1996	Kimera	Kazu Yokota	Artland	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
	Shin Hurricane Polymar	Akiyuki Shinbo	Tatsunoko Production	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	Ending storyboard artist & key animator
	Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko I	Akiyuki Shinbo	J.C.Staff	No	No	No	No	Yes	Cel-painting (uncredited)
	Landlock	Yasuhiro Matsumoto	Sanctuary	No	No	No	No	Yes
1997	Hen	Hiroshi Suzuki	Group TAC	Yes	No	No	No	No	Supervisor
	Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko II	Akiyuki Shinbo	J.C.Staff	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Voogie's Angel	Masami Ōbari	J.C.Staff	No	No	No	No	Yes
1998	Kite	Yasuomi Umetsu	Arms	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Original creator Screenplay
2000	Mezzo Forte	Yasuomi Umetsu	Arms	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Original creator Screenplay
2002	Read or Die	Koji Masunari	Studio Deen	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Nakoruru ~Ano hito kara no okurimono~	Katsuma Kanazawa	Arms	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
2003	Crimson Climax	Katsuma Kanazawa	Arms	No	No	No	No	Yes
2008	Kite Liberator	Yasuomi Umetsu	Arms	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Original creator Screenplay

Films

Year	Title	Director(s)	Studio	CD	SB	ED	AD	KA	Other roles and notes	Ref(s)
1982	Queen Millennia	Nobutaka Nishizawa	Toei Animation	No	No	No	No	No	In-between animator
	Arcadia of My Youth	Tomoharu Katsumata	Toei Animation	No	No	No	No	No	In-between check
	Future War 198X	Tomoharu Katsumata Toshio Masuda	Toei Animation	No	No	No	No	No	In-between animator
1983	Genma Wars	Rintaro	Madhouse	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Barefoot Gen	Mori Masaki	Madhouse	No	No	No	No	Yes
1984	Wata no Kunihoshi	Shinichi Tsuji	Mushi Production	No	No	No	No	No	Assistant animation director
1985	The Dagger of Kamui	Rintaro	Madhouse Project Team Argos	No	No	No	No	Yes
1986	Toki no Tabibito: Time Stranger	Mori Masaki	Madhouse	No	No	No	No	Yes
1988	Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack	Yoshiyuki Tomino	Sunrise	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Akira	Katsuhiro Otomo	TMS Entertainment	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Grave of the Fireflies	Isao Takahata	Studio Ghibli	No	No	No	No	Yes
1990	A Wind Named Amnesia	Kazuo Yamazaki	Madhouse	No	No	No	No	Yes
1991	Urusei Yatsura: Always My Darling	Katsuhisa Yamada	Madhouse	No	No	No	No	Yes
1994	Darkside Blues	Toshiyasu Kogawa	J.C.Staff	No	No	No	No	Yes
1998	Spriggan	Hirotsugu Kawasaki	Studio 4°C	No	No	No	No	Yes
2002	A Tree of Palme	Takashi Nakamura	Palm Studio	No	No	No	No	Yes
2010	Book Girl	Shunsuke Tada	Production I.G	No	No	No	No	Yes
2012	Blood-C: The Last Dark	Naoyoshi Shiotani Norihiro Naganuma	Production I.G	No	No	No	No	Yes
2016	Kizumonogatari I: Tekketsu	Akiyuki Shinbo Tatsuya Oishi	Shaft	No	No	No	No	Yes
2017	Kizumonogatari III: Reiketsu	Akiyuki Shinbo Tatsuya Oishi	Shaft	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Fireworks	Akiyuki Shinbo Nobuyuki Takeuchi	Shaft	No	No	No	No	Yes
2018	Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple	Takuya Igarashi	Bones	No	No	No	No	Yes
2025	Virgin Punk	Yasuomi Umetsu	Shaft	Yes	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	Original creator

Video games

• Contra: The Hard Corps (Mega Drive, 1994) – Packaging and promotional illustrations (Japanese version)
• Castlevania (Nintendo 64, 1999) – Promotional illustrations
• Shin Megami Tensei: Nine (Xbox, 2002) – Character designer
• Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Nintendo Switch, 2017) – Illustrator

Manga

• Vegetables (1998)

Notes

Web citations

• Hirota, Keisuke (December 25, 2021). 新作アニメ作品を制作中の梅津泰臣が語る「これまで」と「これから」【アニメ業界ウォッチング第85回】 [Yasuomi Umetsu, Who is Working on a New Animated Work, Talks About the "Past" and "Future" (Anime Industry Watching No.85)]. Akiba Souken.

Book citations

• McCarthy, Helen (2009). 500 Essential Anime Movies: The Ultimate Guide. Harper Design. ISBN 978-0061474507.
• Shinbo, Akiyuki (July 27, 2012). 新房語 [Shinbogatari] (in Japanese). Ichijinsha. ISBN 978-4758012591.
• Aniplex (2021). Pretty Boy Detective Club Vol. 5 Special Booklet. Aniplex.
• Maeda, Hisashi; Nakagami, Yoshikatsu; Kawabata, Takeshi; Yonebayashi, Akiko (2022). マギアレコード 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ外伝 TVアニメ公式ガイドブック 2巻 [Magia Record Puella Magi Madoka Magica TV Anime Official Guidebook Volume 2] (in Japanese). Houbunsha. ISBN 978-4832272019.

External links

• Official blog (in Japanese)
• Yasuomi Umetsu at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Yasuomi Umetsu at IMDb
• Yasuomi Umetsu anime at Media Arts Database (in Japanese)