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Issei Futamata has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Hunter x Hunter.
Recurring themes

Ghost in the Shell
1995
Action · Animation

Memories
1995
Fantasy · Animation

Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 3: Ghost Tears
2014
Action · Animation

After the Dark
2013
Drama · Fantasy

Time Masters
1982
Animation · Science Fiction

Watchmen: Chapter I
2024
Animation · Drama

Babylon 5: The River of Souls
1998
Action · Science Fiction

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society
2007
Animation · Action

Gon, a young boy who lives on Whale Island, dreams of becoming a Hunter like his father, who left when Gon was still young.
With Megumi Han, Mariya Ise, Issei Futamata

Yeah, Kenichi’s a total wimp. He’s always getting picked on and doesn’t have a lot of friends to stick up for him. The guy needs motivation if he hopes to graduate in one piece. Well, Miu’s the perfect motivation. She’s hot, she accepts him, and she just so happens to live at a dojo with six martial arts masters. You could say fate has led Kenichi to their door, or you could say he was just following the hottie. Either way, he’s about to get whipped into serious shape. If he can survive some hard-core training, he might survive another day at school. He might even score with Miu. Yeah, you could call Kenichi a wimp. But let’s go with underdog instead.
With Tomokazu Seki, Tomoko Kawakami, Jurota Kosugi

A mysterious suicide and a series of unmanned robot run-aways sparks off a Police investigation into the suspicious software on-board thousands of industrial robots around Tokyo.
Dir. Mamoru Oshii · With Mina Tominaga, Toshio Furukawa, Ryusuke Ohbayashi

While martial arts champion Baki Hanma trains hard to surpass his legendary father, five violent death row inmates descend upon Tokyo to take him on.
With Nobunaga Shimazaki, Kenjiro Tsuda, Takehito Koyasu

A Japanese police unit who use giant anthropomorphic robots (called Labors) is caught up in a political struggle between the civilian authorities and the military when a terrorist act is blamed on an Air Force jet. With the aid of a government agent, the team gets close to a terrorist leader to stop things from going out of control when after the military is impelled to impose martial law.
Dir. Mamoru Oshii · With Mina Tominaga, Toshio Furukawa, Ryusuke Ohbayashi

As the perpetually lecherous Ataru and his friends prepare for a carnival at Tomobiki High School, they gradually realize the days are literally repeating themselves. Any effort to break the pattern dumps them back where they started.
Dir. Mamoru Oshii · With Toshio Furukawa, Fumi Hirano, Akira Kamiya
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