Shunsuke Machitani

Director

Works as: Director
Titles: 12 on MovieCove
Links: IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 157 days to Oct 28Down 73% in 30 days

What are Shunsuke Machitani's films like?

Across a limited sample of 4 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Survival.

Themes

share of theme weight

Bonds

42%

Survival

19%

Ideas

17%

Self

14%

Morality

8%

Friendship2 Hope2

Moods and endings

endings shown from 5 titles

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Melancholic

3

Hopeful

3

Tense

1

Joyful

1

Absurd

1

How their films linger

Bittersweet4

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Shunsuke Machitani's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 10 of their 12 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Crunchyroll (10).

Also on these channels

Ameba1 title, show their title on Ameba
Cineverse1 title, show their title on Cineverse
HIDIVE1 title, show their title on HIDIVE
Kartoon Channel1 title, show their title on Kartoon Channel
Midnight Pulp1 title, show their title on Midnight Pulp
RetroCrush1 title, show their title on RetroCrush

Subscription and free streaming for Shunsuke Machitani's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

12 credits, 12 with a MovieCove page.

Sentenced to Be a Hero(2026)
Show 1 episode · Director
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all shows
Fuuto PI(2022)
Show 2 episodes · Director · Assistant Director
Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all shows
Gensou Sangokushi: Tengen Reishinki(2021)
Show 12 episodes · Director · Series Director
Midcredits score: 4th percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Run with the Wind(2018)
Show 1 episode · Storyboard Artist
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all shows
Planetarian: Storyteller of the Stars(2016)
Director · Storyboard Artist
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films
Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet(2016)
Show 5 episodes · Director · Series Director · Storyboard Artist
Midcredits score: 46th percentile of all shows
Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V(2014)
Show 3 episodes · Storyboard Artist
Midcredits score: 27th percentile of all shows
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure(2012)
Show 3 episodes · Director
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
Sword Art Online(2012)
Show 1 episode · Director
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all shows
Oreimo(2010)
Show 1 episode · Director
Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all shows
Spice and Wolf(2008)
Show 1 episode · Director
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all shows
Gensomaden Saiyuki(2000)
Show 1 episode · Assistant Director
Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all shows

Career shape

A full career of 12 titles from 2000 to 2026.

Highest rated

Oreimo (2010)

Midcredits 24^th

By role

only this rolewith another role

Directing8 of 12 · 76^thOther crew7 of 12 · 48^th

12 titles, 3 with more than one role — directing and other crew overlap on 3 of them.

By decade

2000s2 · crew2010s7 · crew2020s3 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.

Who does Shunsuke Machitani work with?

People who share at least 2 of Shunsuke Machitani's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Katsuichi Nakayama shares the most, 2.