Ayumu Watanabe (渡辺 歩, Watanabe Ayumu, September 3, 1966) is a Japanese animation director, animator, and director born in Tokyo. He also worked under the alias Kakeru Watanabe (渡辺 カケル, Watanabe Kakeru).

KNOWN FOR

Space Brothers
2012
Great Pretender
2020
Akane-banashi
2026
Komi Can't Communicate
2021
Summer Time Rendering
2022
Azumanga Daioh
2002
Witch Hat Atelier
2026
Ace Attorney
2016
After the Rain
2018
Major 2nd
2020
You are Ms. Servant
2024
Mysterious Girlfriend X
2012

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Directing
28
Writing
3
Sound
1
Art
11
Visual Effects
6
2026
Witch Hat Atelier
Series Director
2026
Akane-banashi
Series Director
2025
Ganglion
Series Director
2024
You are Ms. Servant
Series Director
2022
Summer Time Rendering
Series Director
2021
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko
Director
2021
Komi Can't Communicate
Series Director
2020
Major 2nd
Series Director
2019
Children of the Sea
Director
2018
After the Rain
Series Director
2018
Gurazeni: Money Pitch
Director
2016
Ace Attorney
Series Director
2014
The Big First-Grader and the Small Second-Grader
Director
2014
Space Brothers #0
Director
2014
If Her Flag Breaks
Director
2012
Mysterious Girlfriend X
Director
2012
Space Brothers
Series Director
2008
Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend
Director
2006
Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur
Director
2004
Pa-Pa-Pa the Movie: Perman: Tako de Pon! Ashi wa Pon!
Director
2003
Pa-Pa-Pa the Movie: Perman
Director
2002
Doraemon: The Day When I Was Born
Director
2001
Doraemon: Ganbare! Gian!!
Director
2000
Doraemon: A Grandmother's Recollections
Director
1999
Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding
Director
1998
Doraemon Comes Back
Director
1991
Dorami-chan: Wow, The Kid Gang of Bandits / The☆Doraemons: Strange, Sweets, Strange? / Doraemon: Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding
Director
Freedom in the Sky
Director