Hirokazu Kojima

小島大和

**[Twitter](https://twitter.com/cunepero)** Kojima got started in the industry one day while he was working as a freelancer in various industries and somehow ended up with a job in anime at the age of 23. His first project was on the show "[Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirou](https://anilist.co/anime/9768/Shima-Shima-Tora-no-Shimajirou/)" under [Studio Kikan](https://anilist.co/studio/256/Studio-Kikan), where he got started of by doing in-between animation. At the time he was very unexperienced with anime production and has [said](https://www.arabnews.jp/article/arts-culture/article_26145/) he likely would have been fired for his lack of knowledge and poor quality work, if not for the in-between animation checker teaching him everything from scratch. Later down the line after establishing himself more in the anime industry, he would go on to work on "[Gurren Lagann](https://anilist.co/anime/2001/Tengen-Toppa-Gurren-Lagann/)" as a challenge to himself, where he would put forth mecha and effects animation he had no idea how to prior. Kojima [states](https://www.arabnews.jp/article/arts-culture/article_26145/) he feels a lot of inspiration from manga artists who are able to think abou

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