Yoji Enokido

Yoji Enokido is a Japanese screenwriter whose career is closely tied to television anime and animated films that combine comedy, adolescence, and unusually elaborate world-building. Born on September 27, 1963, he first worked as an editor at Animage, Tokuma Shoten’s anime magazine, before moving into screenplay work. His credits became especially visible through productions associated with Gainax and director Kunihiko Ikuhara.

Enokido wrote episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion, the 1995–96 television series directed by Hideaki Anno. That assignment placed him on a show about teenagers recruited to pilot Evangelions against the Angels, but it did not define him solely as an Evangelion writer. His collaboration with Ikuhara on Revolutionary Girl Utena was more sustained: he was credited with series composition and scripts for the 1997 series. Utena follows Utena Tenjou, a girl who enters Ohtori Academy and becomes entangled in ritualized duels over the Rose Bride, Anthy Himemiya. Enokido also co-wrote the screenplay for the 1999 film Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Adolescence of Utena, whose radically reworked story was directed by Ikuhara.

His work on FLCL, the six-episode OVA released in 2000–01, is another key credit. Enokido handled series composition and wrote scripts for the project, directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki and produced by Gainax and Production I.G. Its central figure, twelve-year-old Naota Nandaba, is drawn into the disruptions caused by the scooter-riding alien Haruko Haruhara; robots and other impossibilities emerge from his head. The OVA’s compressed structure and abrupt shifts between domestic malaise and absurd spectacle make that credit distinct from a conventional long-running television commission.

Later series-composition credits include Ouran High School Host Club, adapted from Bisco Hatori’s manga, and Darker than Black. In Ouran, scholarship student Haruhi Fujioka breaks an expensive vase and works for the school’s Host Club, a premise Enokido helped shape across the anime’s twenty-six episodes. He also served as series composer on Star Driver, Captain Earth, and Bungo Stray Dogs. Bungo Stray Dogs begins with Atsushi Nakajima joining the Armed Detective Agency, where gifted members use powers named in reference to writers and literary works.

Across these credits, Enokido has repeatedly worked on adaptations and original anime. His record is not confined to one genre: it is visible in projects where school comedy, symbolic conflict, science-fiction disruption, and literary allusion are organized through episodic storytelling. His sustained roles on Utena, FLCL, and Bungo Stray Dogs demonstrate that range.