Birthplace: Pomona, California, United States
Jan Scott-Frazier (born Scott Frazier) is an American producer and multi-talented figure in anime who's spent over two decades working across nearly every role the industry has to offer.
She moved to Japan in 1987 and jumped into animation training that fall, eventually becoming an instructor at her school by late 1988. Her early career was marked by hands-on work—animation checking, photography, inbetweening—whatever the job demanded. Around the same time, she happened to be in Hangzhou during the 1989 Tiananmen Square escalation; things got hairy enough that she was briefly shot at during a drive to the airport.
Starting in 1992, Frazier established and ran TAO, a studio operation based in Thailand for about four-and-a-half years. She was working there during the Bangkok riots as well. In 1994, she produced the first digital manga, Comic On, created by Izumi Matsumoto—an early landmark in the medium's digital evolution.
Her Production I.G era saw her working as a technical director and eventually serving as president of the company's Japan-based US branch in 1996 before moving into freelance work. She's best known for her role producing Blood: The Last Vampire, where her unedited English-language script draft unexpectedly made it into the final product. She's also credited on video game work including Ghost in the Shell and Quo Vadis 2.
When the anime industry contracted, Frazier returned to the United States to help an American company break into the space.
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