Shinichi Watanabe

Twitterhttps://twitter.com/nabeshinafro Shinichi Watanabe is a Japanese director episode director and storyboard artist for anime while also being a voice actor. Shinichi is best known for his overthetop adaption of Rikudo Koshis Excel Sagahttps://anilist.co/anime/379/HeppokoJikkenAnimationExcelSaga in which he appears as the character Nabeshin. In addition to his appearance in Excel Saga and Puni Puni Poemyhttps://anilist.co/anime/564/PuniPuniPoemii his likeness has also appeared as NB in Tenchi Muyo GXPhttps://anilist.co/anime/1133/TenchiMuyoGXP InuAfro in Dotto KoniChanhttps://anilist.co/anime/1684/DottoKonichan and in small role in Mahoromatichttps://anilist.co/anime/276/Mahoromatic. He also does an unmistakable cameo of Nabeshin which can be seen in Nurse Witch Komugihttps://anilist.co/anime/615/NurseWitchKomugichan/ although Shinichi had nothing to do with that project. In addition he made an appearance in the show EyeShield 21https://anilist.co/anime/15/Eyeshield21. More recently he made an appearance in episode 32 of Hayate no Gotokuhttps://anilist.co/anime/2026/HayatenoGotoku. Shinichi claims that the nickname Nabeshin which is an obvious combination of nabe in Watanabe and shin in Shinichi came from God himself. Not to be confused with the director Watanabe Shinichirouhttps://anilist.co/staff/97009/ShinichirouWatanabe which is most known for directing Cowboy Bebop