Shinpei Nagai

He joined Shin-Ei Animation in the late 1990s as a production manager where he befriended the late Hiroshi Ishida who moved with Nagai to Studio Junio. They parted as Nagai briefly worked at Radix and Ishida went to SynergySP, and in 2004 Nagai incorporated his own small company called Studio Lagoon (officially founded in 2000) which he ran for another three years.