Takao Nakano is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He has served as a writer and series compositor for the Ultraman Series during the New Generation era, having written many episodes and some films and novels.
Career[]
Nakano began his career by mainly writing and directing tokusatsu adult videos (AVs), such as Metomic Action (1991) and SPIRAL ZONE (1992), later pivoting to non-adult TV series and films. He has written for the Ultraman Series since 2014 and was a series compositor alongside others for some series.
Works[]
- Operation: Mystery - Second File (2007) - Writer, 1 episode
- Episode 1 "Zeus Trigger"
- Operation: Mystery - Mystery File (2013) - Writer, 1 episode
- Episode 2 "Ground-Crawling Queen"
- Ultraman Ginga S (2014) - Series compositor and writer, wrote 3 episodes
- Episode 2 "Ginga VS Victory"
- Episode 11 "Gan-Q's Tears"
- Episode 16 "The Fight for Tomorrow"
- Ultraman Ginga S The Movie: Showdown! The 10 Ultra Warriors! (2015) - Writer
- Ultraman X (2015) - Series compositor and writer, wrote 4 episodes
- Episode 3 "A Song That Calls the Night"
- Episode 5 "When the Aegis Shines"
- Episode 9 "We Are Nebula!"
- Episode 16 "Feature Report! 24 Hours Inside Xio"
- Ultraman X The Movie: Here He Comes! Our Ultraman (2016) - Writer
- Ultraman Orb (2016) - Series compositor and writer, wrote 4 episodes
- Episode 1 "The Sunset Wanderer"
- Episode 6 "The Forbidden Forest"
- Episode 9 "The Impostor Blues"
- Episode 25 "The Wandering Sun"
- Ultraman Orb The Movie: Let Me Borrow the Power of Bonds! (2017) - Writer
- Ultraman R/B (2018) - Series compositor and writer, wrote 4 episodes
- Episode 1 "Beginning of Ultraman"
- Episode 8 "The World Is Waiting for Me"
- Episode 15 "Enshrined by Extremity"
- Episode 25 "Home of Sunrise"
- Ultraman R/B The Movie: Select! The Crystal of Bond (2019) - Writer
- Ultraman Taiga (2019) - Series compositor and writer, wrote 5 episodes
- Episode 2 "Tregear"
- Episode 4 "Requiem of the Wolves"
- Episode 15 "I Can't Hear Your Voice"
- Episode 20 "Sand Castle"
- Episode 24 "I'm Pirika"
- Ultraman Z (2020) - Writer, 3 episodes
- Episode 5 "First Juggling"
- Episode 10 "Here Comes the Space Pirate!"
- Episode 17 "Beliarok"
- Ultraman Taiga The Movie: New Generation Climax (2020) - Writer
- Ultraman Decker (2022) - Writer, 3 episodes
- Episode 4 "The Destructive Monster Awakens"
- Episode 6 "Subterranean Monster Appears! And Appears!"
- Episode 20 "Lord Ragon"
- Ultraman Blazar (2023) - Writer, 1 episode
- Episode 15 "Betwixt Morn and Dusk"
- Ultraman Blazar The Movie: Tokyo Kaiju Showdown (2024) - Writer
- SKaRD Break Room (2024) - Writer[1]
- Ultraman Arc (2024) - Writer,[2][3] 2 episodes
- Episode 17 "Demon Slicing Meteor Sword"
- Episode 21 "The Dream Bird"
- Ultraman Omega (2025) - Writer[4]
Literature[]
- Ultraman Orb Chronicle (2017) - Writer
- Ultraman R/B Novel: The Blue-Eyed Girl Whose Name is Gray (2019) - Original concept
- Ultraman Taiga Novel: Tregear's Story／Blue Shadow (2020) - Writer
- Jugglus Juggler Chronicle: Ja no Michi wa Hebi (2021) - Writer
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