Hiroshi Fukutomi(福冨 博Fukutomi Hiroshi, former name 福富 博 (pronounced the same)) is an anime director born July 25, 1950 in Kochi Prefecture, Japan. After leaving Tokyo Designer Gakuin in the middle of his studies, he joined A Production (then known as Shin'ei Dōga). In 1982, with some of the staff producing Kaibutsu-kun (including Yoshinobu Sanada, Toshiyuki Honda, and Makoto Moriwaki), Fukutomi founded Animal House(あにまる屋Animaru-ya), now known as Studio Comet.