If you're an anime fan, you've probably seen and been wowed by Shinya Ohira's work even if you don't know his name. He mastered realistic effects animation in the '80s on the likes of "Akira" and "Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack" before developing the sketchy hyper-fluid surrealistic art style he's known for today. He's one of Hayao Miyazaki's top animators, responsible for the boiler room scene in "Spirited Away," Howl's transformation in "Howl's Moving Castle," and, at his most stylistically extreme, the fire-bombings in "The Boy and the Heron."

Ohira tends to work on movies and original video animations (OVAs). When he works on a TV anime at this point in his career, it's always for something special, like the Gear 5 power-up scene in episode 1072 of "One Piece" and multiple a

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