Biography
Miyako Nishida (西田美弥子) is a Japanese animator who has worked in animation direction, chief animation direction, key animation, and character design across more than 200 anime productions listed in Anime News Network's encyclopedia, with credits running from Neon Genesis Evangelion and Trigun through to recent series [1]. Her chief animation director and animation director credits include Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, Tonikawa: Over the Moon for You, the long-running Hidamari Sketch franchise, The Apothecary Diaries, By the Grace of the Gods, and I'm Standing on 1,000,000 Lives, and she has done character design work on Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni and Ao no Miburo [1]. Her key animation credits stretch across a wide stylistic range, from the mecha-tinged science fiction of Darling in the Franxx to the ghost-story restraint of Mononoke and the coming-of-age realism of Blue Period [1]. That combination, steady chief animation director work on some of the past decade's most visually distinctive shows plus design credits of her own, points to someone well regarded within the industry, even though no profile, interview, or biographical detail beyond her credit list has surfaced in the sources checked here [1].