Ken'ichi Kasai

Ken'ichi Kasai (カサヰ ケンイチ) is a Japanese anime director, born on 12 April 1970 in Gifu Prefecture.

He is amongst J.C.Staff's most noted directors, having directed the highly-rated Honey and Clover series. Beginning his career as a production manager, using his birth name, he moved onto direction with J.C. Staff. With 2002's Wagamama: Fairy Mirumo De Pon!, he began using his name in katakana.

TV anime
Sources:
 * Cooking Papa (production manager)
 * Moeru! Top Striker (production manager)
 * Ultraman Kids Haha wo Tazunete 3000 Man Kōnen (production manager)
 * Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (assistant director)
 * Cutie Honey F (assistant director)
 * Mama Loves the Poyopoyo-Saurus (assistant director and episode director)
 * Jibaku-kun (opening and ending theme director)
 * Soreyuke! Uchū Senkan Yamamoto Yōko (episode director)
 * Ah! My Goddess: Being Small is Convenient (episode director)
 * Anime Ganbare Goemon (storyboards and episode director)
 * Gokudō-kun Manyū-ki (storyboards and episode director)
 * Bakusō Kyōdai Let's & Go!! (storyboards and episode director)
 * Neo Ranga (storyboards and episode director)
 * Majutsushi Orphen Revenge (storyboards and episode director)
 * Ginga Hyōryū Vifam 13 (episode director)
 * Kareshi Kanojo no Jijō (storyboards and episode director)
 * Daa! Daa! Daa! (storyboards and episode director)
 * Kuru Kuru Amī (director)
 * Wagamama: Fairy Mirumo De Pon! (director)
 * Wagamama: Fairy Mirumo De Pon! Gōruden (director)
 * Major, first three seasons (director)
 * Honey and Clover, first season (director)
 * Honey and Clover, second season (supervision, ending theme storyboards, episode director)
 * Puri Gorota: Uchū no Yūjō dai Bōken (director, script and storyboards of Nodame Cantabile's live-action drama episode 4's anime portion)
 * Nodame Cantabile first season'' (director)
 * Kimikiss: pure rouge (director)
 * Toradora! (storyboards and episode director)
 * Aoi Hana (director)
 * Bakuman (director)

Notes and references
カサヰケンイチ 笠井賢一