Hiroaki Ando is a German-Japanese storyboarder, illustrator, designer, cartoonist and comic writer. Between 1998 and 2005 he worked as an assistant to Akira Miyashita - renowned japanese manga-ka - at Miyashita Production in Tokyo. In 2005 he moved back to Düsseldorf and since then he has been working for an international range of clients in the fields of print, interactive and motion media as a self-employed storyboarder, illustrator, designer and cartoonist.