🎬 animator
Atsushi Saitou斎藤敦史
Animation Director and Key Animation on Sword Art Online, A Silent Voice and ERASED.
- anime credits
- 24
- anime credits
- most credited as
- Animation Director
- most credited as
- busiest year (5)
- 2017
- busiest year (5)

Best-known work
Sword Art OnlineMain Animator · 2012
A Silent VoiceKey Animation · 2016
ERASEDKey Animation · 2016
Sword Art Online IIKey Animation · 2014
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?Animation Director · 2015
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That DayKey Animation · 2011
Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow-Key Animation · 2025
ClannadIn-Between Animation · 2007
Durarara!!Key Animation · 2010
K-ON!Key Animation · 2009
Clannad: After StoryKey Animation · 2008
My Dress-Up Darling Season 2Key Animation · 2025
Credits per year
Anime Atsushi Saitou worked on, by premiere year
036
5 in 2017
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Show as table
| Item | Credits |
|---|---|
| 07 | 1 in 2007 |
| 08 | 1 in 2008 |
| 09 | 2 in 2009 |
| 10 | 1 in 2010 |
| 11 | 1 in 2011 |
| 12 | 2 in 2012 |
| 13 | 1 in 2013 |
| 14 | 1 in 2014 |
| 15 | 2 in 2015 |
| 16 | 4 in 2016 |
| 17 | 5 in 2017 |
| 18 | 0 in 2018 |
| 19 | 0 in 2019 |
| 20 | 1 in 2020 |
| 21 | 0 in 2021 |
| 22 | 0 in 2022 |
| 23 | 0 in 2023 |
| 24 | 0 in 2024 |
| 25 | 2 in 2025 |
All credits
- 2025
Solo Leveling Season 2 -Arise from the Shadow-Key Animation - 2025
My Dress-Up Darling Season 2Key Animation - 2020
Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep SoulKey Animation - 2017
Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal ScaleKey Animation - 2017
Re:CREATORSKey Animation - 2017
Fate/ApocryphaKey Animation - 2017
March comes in like a lion Season 2Key Animation - 2017
Princess PrincipalAnimation Director - 2016
A Silent VoiceKey Animation - 2016
ERASEDKey Animation - 2016
Doukyuusei -Classmates-Key Animation - 2016
Showa Genroku Rakugo ShinjuKey Animation - 2015
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?Animation Director - 2015
The Anthem of the HeartKey Animation - 2014
Sword Art Online IIKey Animation - 2013
A Certain Scientific Railgun SAnimation Director, Assistant Animation Director - 2012
Sword Art OnlineMain Animator - 2012
NisemonogatariAnimation Director - 2011
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That DayKey Animation - 2010
Durarara!!Key Animation - 2009
K-ON!Key Animation - 2009
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2009)Key Animation - 2008
Clannad: After StoryKey Animation - 2007
ClannadIn-Between Animation
Frequently asked questions
What anime has Atsushi Saitou worked on?
Atsushi Saitou's best-known work includes Sword Art Online (Main Animator), A Silent Voice (Key Animation), ERASED (Key Animation), Sword Art Online II (Key Animation), Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (Animation Director), Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day (Key Animation).
What does Atsushi Saitou do?
Atsushi Saitou is credited most often as animation director, key animation, main animator on anime.