Summary
Sung Hoo Park, theJujutsu Kaisenanime director, is working on a new original animation forDisney+. Recently, Disney hosted the Disney APAC Content Showcase 2024 in Singapore, announcing several new titles, including Japanese ones.
Disney has been working consistently with APAC creators since 2021 and the APAC Showcase is held every year since 2022. Despite its name, they also bring sneak peeks and previews for titles produced in other countries, but one of the main focuses is to present new Asian-Pacific titles to the public.
Sung Hoo Park’s new series istitledBullet/Bullet, and it is slated to debut exclusively on Disney+. Hedrafted the story for a decade. A trailer was shared, previewing an action urban rally story with CG cars. As a good deal of anime do today, it seemingly mixes CG technology with 2D animation. Check out:
Other main staff members were also revealed:Aki Kindaichi(Umamsume: Cinderella Gray) is in charge of the scripts,Hidetaka Tenjin(severalMacrossseries) is making the concept designs and mechanical designs.Shin Misawa(Initial D) is directing the car action scenes.
Sung Hoo Park’s Career in Japanese Animation
A Macross fan going professional
Sung Hoo Park’s (sometimes transliterated as Seong-Hoo-Park and Sunghoo Park) interest in anime started in elementary school after watchingMacross(a franchise that shouldcome to Disney+ at some point). In theMyAnimeListdatabase, the first time he was credited in an anime was in 2005, working on in-between animation processes forTide-Line Blue. The first time he directed an animation was in the 26thFairy Tailepisode.
He worked on several series on key animation or assistant direction, and his debut as a main series direction came in 2017, withGaro: Vanishing Line. Three years later, hedirectedThe God of High School, one of the first Crunchyroll original series (and a manhwa adaptation). Still in 2020, his most famous work premiered in Japan and internationally:Jujutsu Kaisenanime adaptation.
Jujutsu Kaisenbrought Sung Hoo Park’s name to the spotlight. His competent and creative direction greatly contributed to the anime’s success (of course, alongside many other great animators), making fans amazed at the quality of animation. Sung Hoo Park later directed theJujutsu Kaisen 0movie, and recently got projects in other franchises.
He directedEiichiro Oda’sMonsters: 103 Mercies Dragon Damnationanime adaptation (available on Netflix), and also directed and storyboarded theoriginal Adult Swim’sNinja Kamuianime(now available on Max).
Bullet/Bulletpremieres in Summer 2025 on Disney+.Jujutsu Kaisendirector, Sun-Hoo Park, spent a decade drafting the series.
