Kazuyuki Fudeyasu

Japanese screenwriter Kazuyuki Fudeyasu has established a major television-anime career as both a series composer and an episode scriptwriter. In Japanese animation, series composition generally involves shaping a program’s continuing story structure and coordinating scripts across a season, while individual screenplay credits identify writers of particular episodes. Fudeyasu’s record includes adaptations of manga and light novels, alongside comedy, fantasy, sports, and action productions. His credits place him on long-running broadcast series as well as shorter seasonal shows. He is credited with series composition on That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, adapted from Fuse’s light novels with illustrations by Mitz Vah. Its opening premise concerns Satoru Mikami, a Japanese office worker who dies and awakens in a fantasy world as a slime. Renamed Rimuru Tempest, he acquires unusual skills, forms alliances with monster peoples, and founds the Jura Tempest Federation. Fudeyasu also served as series composer for the second television season and The Slime Diaries: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime. The latter is a spinoff that shifts attention from major conflicts to everyday life in Tempest. Another prominent series-composition assignment was Black Clover, the television anime based on Yūki Tabata’s manga. Its central character, Asta, is born without magic in a society where magical power determines status. He nevertheless aims to become the Wizard King alongside his rival and foster-brother Yuno. Fudeyasu is also credited as series composer for Is the Order a Rabbit?, an adaptation of Koi’s four-panel manga about Cocoa Hoto’s life and friendships at the Rabbit House café. The show’s cast includes Chino Kafū, whose family runs the café, and the talking Angora rabbit Tippy. Further series-composition work includes How Not to Summon a Demon Lord, based on Yukiya Murasaki’s light novels. The story begins when Takuma Sakamoto, a socially isolated player, is summoned to another world in the form of his game character, Diablo. He cannot remove the magical collar intended to enslave him, so he adopts Diablo’s intimidating role-playing persona while traveling with the summoners, Rem Galleu and Shera L. Greenwood. Fudeyasu subsequently received series-composition credit on In the Land of Leadale, adapted from Ceez’s novels, and Shangri-La Frontier, adapted from Katarina’s manga. The former follows Keina Kagami, who awakens as her high-level avatar Cayna in the world of Leadale. The latter centers on Rakurō Hizutome, a “trash-game” specialist who enters the virtual-reality game Shangri-La Frontier and plays as Sunraku there.