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Morio Asaka (浅香 守生, Asaka Morio^?) is a Japanese anime director and one of the best known members of the Japanese animation studio Madhouse. He was born on March 11, 1967 in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan and has worked in anime for almost twenty years.

Contents 1 Directorial Style 2 List of Works 3 Convention Appearances 4 External links

Asaka has covered a wide range of genres in the shows and films he has helmed, from magical girl (Cardcaptor Sakura) to feminine drama (NANA) to sports (Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl), sci-fi (Galaxy Angel), and action (Last Order -Final Fantasy VII-). Many of his works take on a female perspective for the telling of the story, with a strong feminine protagonist as the central focus. This has contributed to him becoming the the main director at Madhouse for handling the more serious series featuring female characters or targeting the female market. However, his works are also known for often elaborate action sequences, and even his most serious stories are frequently laced with comedy.

Unlike many of his fellow Madhouse staff directors, Asaka rarely writes or contributes to the scripts of his projects.

• The New Adventures of Kimba The White Lion series (1989 - 1990) - Storyboard Artist
• Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl - Soreyuke Koshinuke Kiss!! movie (1992) - Storyboard Artist, Unit Director
• Mermaid's Scar OVA (1993) - Director
• Pops OVA (1993) - Director
• Phantom Quest Corp OVA series (1994 - 1995) - Episode Director (episodes 2, 4), Storyboard Artist (episodes 2, 4)
• Street Fighter (TV series) series (1995 - 1997) - Director (with Sunao Katabuchi and Yoshinori Kanemori)
• Azuki-chan series (1995 - 1998) - Animation Director, Storyboard Artist
• Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl Special - Zutto Kimi no Koto ga (1996) - Director, Storyboard Artist
• Cardcaptor Sakura series (1998 - 2000) - Supervising Director, Episode Director (episodes 1, 69), Storyboard Artist (episodes 1, 23, 27, 47, 70)
• Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie movie (1999) - Director, Storyboard Artist
• Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie 2 - The Sealed Card movie (2000) - Director, Storyboard Artist
• Leave it to Kero! Theatrical Version short movie (2000) - Story Concept
• Galaxy Angel series (2001) - Director, Storyboard Artist, Unit Director
• Galaxy Angel Z) series (2002) - Director, Storyboard Artist
• Chobits series (2002) - Director
• Chibits short OVA (2003) - Director, Storyboard Artist
• Gunslinger Girl series (2003 - 2004) - Director, Storyboard Artist
• Rozen Maiden series (2004) - Director (opening credits), Storyboard Artist (opening credits)
• Last Order -Final Fantasy VII- OVA (2005) - Director, Storyboard Artist
• NANA series (2006 - 2007) (ongoing) - Director, Episode Director, Storyboard Artist, Key Animator (opening credits)

• Anime Expo 2001 (July, 2001)

• Morio Asaka at the Anime News Network Encyclopedia
• Morio Asaka at the Internet Movie Database