Manabu Ono (小野 学, Ono Manabu) is a Japanese anime director and storyboard artist. He started out as an animator and was the mechanical art director for "Angel Links" and animation director for the eighth episode of the same work. He made his directorial debut with "Transformers: Galaxy Force", which he directed under general director Hiroyuki Kakudo. His first solo work as a director was "Dragonauts: The Resonance".