あおきえい

Twitter Ei Aoki is a Japanese storyboard artist and director. He credits the anime Megazone 23 as his inspiration to have a career in animation. In 2013, he created the animation studio TROYCA with Toshiyuki Nagano and Tomonori Katou, which began animation production on its first work in the fall of 2014. He stood out as a director on Kara no Kyoukai 1 in 2007, but he would not rise to fame until years later after directing the acclaimed Fate/Zero and then at his studio with Aldnoah.Zero.