Shigeru TamuraShigeru Tamura.

Shigeru Tamura (田村 茂, Tamura Shigeru) is a Japanese illustrator, animator, filmmaker, and manga artist. His animated works have included Glassy Ocean, for which he won the 1998 Japan Media Arts Festival Animation Award; Ursa Minor Blue, which he also wrote and directed; and A Piece of Phantasmagoria. He has also contributed to the now-defunct manga magazine Garo, and illustrated covers for the magazines Sun Power, TV Station, and Big Gold.