Noriyuki Abe

Noriyuki Abe is a Japanese anime director who was lead director on the anime adaption of Tite Kubo's Bleach manga.

Biography
Noriyuki Abe was born in the Japanese city of Kyoto on July 19, 1961. Abe's career as a director saw him taking the helm of Norakuro-kun and Masashi, the Samurai Lord as his first works, he has also worked on a couple of Yu Yu Hakusho projects in the early 1990s. He subsequently worked on numerous anime, many of which ran for over 40 or 50 episodes before starting work on the anime adaptation of Bleach in 2004, and which concluded after 366 episodes in 2014 having also spawned four animated movies which Abe also directed.

Works

 * Bleach
 * Bleach: Memories of Nobody
 * Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion
 * Bleach: Fade to Black
 * Bleach: The Hell Verse
 * Black Butler: Book of Circus
 * Black Butler: Book of Murder
 * Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic
 * Yu Yu Hakusho
 * Divine Gate
 * The Heroic Legend of Arslan
 * Ghost Stories
 * Great Teacher Onizuka
 * The Heroic Legend of Arslan: Dust Storm Dance
 * Tokyo Mew Mew