Biography
Noriko Hatta (八田典子, also credited as 八田能理子) is a Japanese animator with more than 200 credited projects to her name on Anime News Network's encyclopedia, most of them as key animator or in-between animator, with additional work as animation director and assistant animation director [1]. Her filmography covers some of the biggest ongoing franchises in anime: Attack on Titan (both the second and fourth seasons), Naruto: Shippuden, Bleach, My Hero Academia's third season, Vinland Saga, and the Berserk: The Golden Age Arc films and their television adaptation [1]. She has also worked extensively on the Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya series and Black Clover, and has stepped up to animation director on titles including I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and So I'm a Spider, So What? [1]. That volume of credits across nearly every major action and shonen franchise of the past two decades suggests a long, steady career inside the studio pipeline rather than a name attached to a small number of signature projects. No birthdate, birthplace, or interview material is publicly available for her [1].