Kazuo Komatsubara Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Kazuo Komatsubara Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Kazuo Komatsubara (å° æ ¾åŽŸ 一ç"· or å° æ ¾åŽŸ 一夫, Komatsubara

Kazuo, December 24, 1943 â€" March 24, 2000) was a Japanese animator,

animation director and character designer born in Yokohama, Kanagawa

Prefecture, Japan. He worked as an independently contracted character

designer for Toei Animation in the 1970s and 1980s. He was a member of

the board of directors of animation studio Oh! Production (which he

helped found along with Norio Shioyama, KÅ ichi Murata, and KÅ shin

Yonekawa). He died on March 24, 2000 due to a cancerous tumor on his

neck.Beginning with Devilman in 1972, Komatsubara moved on to work on

other important 1970s anime shows including Getter Robo (1974), Getter

Robo G (1975), UFO Robo Grendizer (1975), and Magne Robo Gakeen

(1976), working closely with and succeeding Go Nagai on character

designs for many of these shows. For the 1987 OVA remake of the

Devilman series, Komatsubara worked as both character designer and

animation director. He then caught the animation fandom book at the

end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s as the character

designer for Leiji Matsumoto's Space Cruiser Yamato series, as well as

working on the anime TV series Space Pirate Captain Harlock and the

anime film Galaxy Express 999. Komatsubara became the most popular

anime character designer for Matsumoto's characters, and many of his

illustrations were featured on the front covers of various

magazines.At the same time, Shingo Araki was also a very popular

character designer at Toei Animation, though he was beginning to do

more work for Tokyo Movie Shinsha. Because of this, Komatsubara began

to focus more on his work for Toei Animation. He collaborated with

Rintaro on several projects, including the 1980 anime television

series Ganbare Genki and the anime film Metropolis (released in 2001,

after Komatsubara's death).When not working on adaptations of the

works of Nagai and Matsumoto, Komatsubara worked as character designer

on shÅ jo anime series such as Miracle ShÅ jo Limit-chan (1973) and

High-step Jun (1985). In 1984, he was invited by Hayao Miyazaki to

participate in the production of the anime film Nausicaä of the

Valley of the Wind, for which he did character designs and acted as

animation director. Miyazaki acted as an advisor to Komatsubara during

this time, and Komatsubara indicated he learned many things from him

as a result of this mentoring.
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