Biography
Kenji Hattori is a Japanese animator, credited in Japanese as 服部憲知 (also written 服部憲二, 服部憲治, and 服部憲次) [1]. His career centers on animation direction, a role he has taken on episode by episode across a large number of productions rather than staying attached to one studio or franchise [1]. His animation-director credits include episodes of Captain Earth, Choukousoku Galvion, Demon King Daimao, Non Non Biyori, Ping Pong the Animation, WATAMOTE, and the You're Under Arrest specials, and his earlier resume includes key animation on Gunsmith Cats and Power Dolls [1]. Picking up single-episode animation-direction credits across shows as different as a 1980s mecha OVA, a sports psychodrama, and a self-deprecating comedy about social anxiety is the kind of career that rarely gets a spotlight of its own, but it is exactly the steady, episode-to-episode craftsmanship that keeps a season looking consistent even when a dozen different hands are drawing it. No verified birthdate or birthplace could be confirmed from a citable source.