Masayuki Kouda

Masayuki Kouda is an animator/storyboarder/director with Studio Pierrot affiliation. He came to be recognized as a strong animation director for 'Blue Dragon: Trials of the Seven Shadows (2008)' and sequentially as a regular animator/animation director for 'Naruto Shippuden (2007)' Made his debut as a character designer in 'Baby Steps' (2014), as a storyboard artist/episode director in episode 469 of Naruto Shippuden. Currently, he is the Series Director of Boruto: Naruto Next Generations' (2017) a position which he has held since episode 105.