Yasuyuki Ueda (
Ueda Yasuyuki) is a Japanese producer, who has worked on such projects as
Serial Experiments Lain (a producer and story writer). He was a director for the
Noel video game, worked on the
Lain video game, and also on
WachenRoder for the
Sega Saturn. He first hired
Yoshitoshi ABe, who would become a regular collaborator in the future on many other anime projects.