# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/toyoo-ashida
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:56:11.728Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/toyoo-ashida"
name: "Toyoo Ashida"
slug: "toyoo-ashida"
description: "Toyoo Ashida  was a Japanese anime character designer, animator and director. He was most notable for directing the original Vampire Hunter D anime, as well as for providing character designs for Vifam, Mashin Hero Wataru, Minky Momo and F-Zero GP Legend. He is the founder of the anime production studio, Studio Live and as well as the Japanese Animation Creators Association (JAniCA) along with Satoshi Kon."
tagline: "Anime character designer (1944–2011)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/ol3Y4v3rx1vnq3VFv4VvCwxMvMT.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1944-04-21"
deathDate: "2011-07-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.66
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.811849333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0038953/"
    handle:    "nm0038953"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Toyoo_Ashida"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%A3%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "تويو أشيدا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%88_%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "تويو اشيدا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyoo_Ashida"
    title: "Toyoo Ashida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyoo_Ashida"
    title: "Toyoo Ashida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%A2%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "تویو آشیدا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8A%A6%E7%94%B0%E8%B1%8A%E9%9B%84"
    title: "芦田豊雄"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%84%EC%8B%9C%EB%8B%A4_%ED%86%A0%EC%9A%94%EC%98%A4"
    title: "아시다 토요오"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%98%86%E7%94%B0%E8%B1%90%E9%9B%84"
    title: "蘆田豐雄"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7830703"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57730"
    title: "Toyoo Ashida"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump