Yasuyuki Ueda
Ueda is the main producer for Geneon Entertainment. He is not part of the Wild Geese, but hired their
key personnel. His duty as a producer is to supervise various matters, such as funding for the project. Ueda was hired
as the producer for Rondorobe. His past production credits with Geneon include Haibane Renmei, NieA_7, Koi Kaze, and Texnolyze.
Yasuyuki Ueda article on Wikipedia
Yasuyuki Ueda and Yoshitoshi Abe, interviewed at Otakon 2000
Tomokazu Tokoro
Tomokazu Tokoro is the director of the Wild Geese. He searches for locations
to photograph and use as design samples for the OVA. As director, Tokoro wields ultimate creative control and authority
on the production for this project, ensuring the final quality of every section’s work within the Wild Geese team.
His direction credits include Haibane Renmei, Macross Zero, NieA_7, and several episodes of Sousei no
Aquarion.
Tomokazu Tokoro profile on Anime news Network
Haibane Renmei review at Anime News Network
Yousuke Kuroda
Kuroda is the screenplay writer. His job is to ensure that everyone understands the
story flow so that everyone will work under the same objectives. Once his script is approved for production, pre-production
begins. His past experience as
Screenwriter includes many famous series such as Madlax, Trigun, s-CRY-ed, Onegai Teacher, Gungrave, Excel Saga, and Demonbane.
Kuroda is also the owner of Orphee, a small design company known for their script work on various animations,
live-action projects (also known as 'tokusatsu'), and game projects.
Yousuke Kuroda profile at Anime News Network
Yousuke Kuroda Questions
and Answers at Tenchi-Web.com
Hideyuki Kurata
Kurata is the OVA scriptwriter. It should here be pointed out that a scriptwriter is not the same
as a screenwriter. Kurata's scriptwriting job is to create the characters’ dialogue according to the screenplay
scenario.
He and Kuroda have worked together on the Excel Saga production team. His most recent work as scriptwriter
was for the Gun x Sword series.
Hideyuki Kurata and ROD team interview at Elfwood
Hideyuki Kurata profile on Anime News Network
Ryoji Nakamori
Nakamori is the primary character designer for the Hellsing Ultimate OVA. This is his first position
in charge of character design in an anime series. He has experience as animator for the animes Pretear, Tantei Gakuen Q and
Bleach.
Ryoji Nakamori profile at Anime News Network
Hidetaka Tenjin
Tenjin is the OVA mechanical designer. His work
as mechanical designer in Macross Zero OVA and Sousei no Aquarion prove his ability. He has a small studio of his own called
Studio Tenjin. He also works as an illustrator for some of Bandai's Gundam box art.
Macross page with 5 wallpapers by Hidetaka Tenjin
Hidetaka Tenjin profile on Anime News Network
Noriyuki Jinguji
Jinguji is working as a production designer. He participates in animation
production, creating design images from the scriptwriter’s story. This images are shared among the other staff members,
who create an animation based on these pictures.
His credits include production design for the Read or Die series.
Noriyuki Jinguji profile on Anime News Network
Hayato Matsuo
Hayato Matsuo is the music director; his job is to create an appropriate sound track for the Hellsing
OVA. Matsuo has a distinctive musical style and his work is easily recognizable by those who have heard his work before.
He has worked on the anime Guyver, and a live action title, Kamen Rider Faiz.
Hayato Matsuo profile at Anime News Network
Hideki Tonokatsu
Tonokatsu takes care of the storyboards, along with Kazuhiro Higa.
Storyboards are a sequence of rough sketches created to give an idea of the final animation. A storyboard
will also cover camera angle and movement.
His past credits as a storyboard creator include Sousei no Aquarion, Genshiken and few episodes of Hikaru
no Go.
Tonokatsu is officially listed as a vice-supervisor of Wild Geese. In truth, he is more of a true supervisor,
since the official supervisor--Hirano-sensei a.k.a. the God—claims to keep his hands out of most work on the OVA. His
duties include crosschecking on the team, making sure that everything is going according to plan. Tonokatsu is quite well
known; he has been involved with famous anime titles such as Silent Mobius, Crayon Shinchan and Happy Lesson.
Hideki Tonokatsu profile on Anime News Network
Kazuhiro Higa
Kazuhiro Higa, also known as Romanov Higa, works on the storyboards
along with Tonokatsu. Their work is essential to help the directors and cinematographers visualize scenes from the OVA and
find potential problems before they occur.
Higa has created several animated features: Urda (a series composed of 5-minute
shorts), Something, Wired Bob, Sandstorm: "Scoop", Sandstorm: "Debut", Burst!, and Oneday Somegirl. This is his first position
as a storyboard writer.
Kazuhiro Higa’s involvement with the Hellsing production team is fitting. He has a interest in
Nazi and military regalia. His film Urda also dealt with Nazis and time travel.
Kazuhiro (Romanov) Higa profile at Anime News Network
Hiroshi Yagishita
Yagishita
is a CGI Producer. He handles most of the 3D animation work, including some digital composing and animation effects. He worked
for two projects at the same time, because he also worked for Noein production team. And since the Noein series is over, Yagishita
is now focusing his work only on Hellsing. Besides Noein, he has worked as a GCI and 3D animator on a tokusatsu (live-action) title:
Gamera 3 The Movie, and two other animation titles, Sousei no Aquarion and Glass Fleet.
Hiroshi Yagishita profile on Anime News Network
Hitomi Sano
Sano
is a color designer who creates the overall color palette for the series, inspects the animation for flaws, and helps create
the three-dimensional effects on each character. Sano has worked as a color designer for the animes Demonbane and Najica Blitz
Tactics.
Hitomi Sano profile on Anime News Network
Hideyasu Narita
Narita is an art designer. His work is to create background art for the series. His credits include
Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shambala, a movie for the FMA series. His older works are Project ARMS and the Read or Die
series.
Hideyasu Narita profile on Anime News Network
Manabu Otsuzuki
Otsuzuki is the art director, responsible for task assignment, budgeting, and scheduling, as well as
overall art quality control. He also supervises the art design team. He has worked as an art director on Najica Blitz Tactics
and several episodes of Eureka 7.
Manabu Otsuzuki profile on Anime News Network
Toru Fukushi
Fukushi is the Director of photography for the Wild Geese team. His job is to get the best possible
photographs for the director. These shots are shown to the design team so that they can create artwork from them. His past
credits include Fullmetal Alchemist and Stratos 4.
Toru Fukushi profile on Anime News Network
Yota Tsuruoka
Tsuruoka is the sound director. He is responsible for the sound effects, the voice actors’ output
and supervision of the sound design team. Tsuroka has a great deal of experience in his field. He has worked on hundreds of
anime titles, such as Full Metal Panic!, Inu Yasha, Kaleido Star, Macross 7, Stratos 4, Vandread, Yukikaze, Samurai 7, and
Speed Grapher.
Yota Tsuruoka profile on Anime News Network
Koji Kasamatsu
Kasamatsu is a sound designer. His work consists of creating and manipulating
sound effects for the series, and maintaining the voice actors’ work.
Koji Kasamatsu profile on Anime News Network
Norihiko
Netsu
Netsu works as a title designer; that is, he designs the OVA's title art. He has previously worked
on the anime Texhnolyze as an art designer.
Norihiko Netsu profile on Anime News Network
