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Ayako Kouno

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  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
  • Art Department
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Ayako Kouno is known for Sword Art Online: Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night (2021), NieR:Automata Ver1.1a (2023) and Sword Art Online the Movie: Progressive - Scherzo of Deep Night (2022).
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    Known for

    Sword Art Online: Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night (2021)
    Sword Art Online: Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night
    7.2
    • Director
    • 2021
    Yui Ishikawa in NieR:Automata Ver1.1a (2023)
    NieR:Automata Ver1.1a
    7.3
    TV Series
    • Director
    Haruka Tomatsu, Shiori Izawa, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, and Kaede Hondo in Sword Art Online the Movie: Progressive - Scherzo of Deep Night (2022)
    Sword Art Online the Movie: Progressive - Scherzo of Deep Night
    6.7
    • Director
    • 2022
    Yurikuma Arashi (2015)
    Yurikuma Arashi
    6.8
    TV Mini Series
    • Director

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    Director

    • Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! (2024)
      Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!
      7.6
      TV Series
      • episode director
      • 2024
    • Yui Ishikawa in NieR:Automata Ver1.1a (2023)
      NieR:Automata Ver1.1a
      7.3
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2023
    • Haruka Tomatsu, Shiori Izawa, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, and Kaede Hondo in Sword Art Online the Movie: Progressive - Scherzo of Deep Night (2022)
      Sword Art Online the Movie: Progressive - Scherzo of Deep Night
      6.7
      • Director
      • 2022
    • Sword Art Online: Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night (2021)
      Sword Art Online: Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night
      7.2
      • Director
      • 2021
    • After the Rain (2018)
      After the Rain
      7.4
      TV Mini Series
      • episode director
      • 2018
    • Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga (2017)
      Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga
      7.3
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2017
    • Yasuyuki Kase, Ibuki Kido, and Atsumi Tanezaki in The Perfect Insider (2015)
      The Perfect Insider
      6.6
      TV Mini Series
      • Director
      • 2015
    • Your Lie in April (2014)
      Your Lie in April
      8.5
      TV Series
      • episode director
      • 2014–2015
    • Yurikuma Arashi (2015)
      Yurikuma Arashi
      6.8
      TV Mini Series
      • episode director
      • 2015
    • Aikatsu! (2012)
      Aikatsu!
      8.4
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2013
    • Love Live!: School Idol Project (2013)
      Love Live!: School Idol Project
      7.2
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2013

    Second Unit or Assistant Director

    • Sword Art Online: Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night (2021)
      Sword Art Online: Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night
      7.2
      • unit director
      • unit director: ending sequence
      • 2021
    • High School Fleet the Movie (2020)
      High School Fleet the Movie
      8.0
      • unit director
      • 2020
    • Maaya Sakamoto, Tomokazu Sugita, Jun Fukuyama, Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Yûki Kaji, Aoi Yûki, Misaki Kuno, Sora Amamiya, and Yûhei Takagi in The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky (2018)
      The Seven Deadly Sins: Prisoners of the Sky
      7.0
      • unit director
      • 2018
    • After the Rain (2018)
      After the Rain
      7.4
      TV Mini Series
      • assistant director
      • 2018
    • Noriyuki Abe, Yasunori Mitsuda, Maaya Sakamoto, Yukari Tamura, Jun Fukuyama, Masahiro Gotô, Jun'ichi Suwabe, Daisuke Ono, Noriaki Sugiyama, Hiroyuki Yoshino, Yukihiro Masumoto, Emiri Kato, Takuma Terashima, Yûki Kaji, Yana Toboso, Terri Doty, and Hiroshi Tôchi in Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic (2017)
      Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic
      7.6
      • unit director
      • 2017
    • Accel World: Infinite Burst (2016)
      Accel World: Infinite Burst
      5.8
      • unit director
      • 2016
    • Love Live! The School Idol Movie (2015)
      Love Live! The School Idol Movie
      7.0
      • unit director: live part
      • 2015

    Art Department

    • Daisuke Namikawa, Tomokazu Sugita, Daisuke Ono, Yumi Uchiyama, Ai Kakuma, and Konomi Kohara in Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (2021)
      Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation
      8.3
      TV Series
      • storyboard artist
      • 2023
    • Sword Art Online: Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night (2021)
      Sword Art Online: Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night
      7.2
      • storyboard artist
      • storyboard artist: ending sequence
      • 2021
    • 86 (2021)
      86
      8.2
      TV Series
      • storyboard artist
      • 2021
    • High School Fleet the Movie (2020)
      High School Fleet the Movie
      8.0
      • storyboard artist
      • 2020
    • After the Rain (2018)
      After the Rain
      7.4
      TV Mini Series
      • storyboard artist
      • 2018
    • Blend S (2017)
      Blend S
      6.8
      TV Mini Series
      • storyboard artist
      • 2017
    • Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga (2017)
      Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga
      7.3
      TV Series
      • storyboard artist
      • 2017

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