- Katsuya Kondō
is a
mangaka ,character designer ,animator andanimation director bornJune 2 ,1963 inEhime Prefecture ,Japan . He is most well known for his character design work on theStudio Ghibli films "Kiki's Delivery Service " and "I Can Hear the Sea ", as well as thePlayStation game "Jade Cocoon ". His character designs are considered the epitome of the Studio Ghibli style.After graduating from high school, he began working for
Osamu Dezaki andAkio Sugino at their Studio Annapuru. Under the direction ofShinji Ōtsuka , Kondō worked as a key animator of the TVanime series "Cat's Eye". He then worked as a free agent on such shows as "The Mighty Orbots ", "Rainbow Brite " and "Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears ". His first work with Studio Ghibli was as a key animator on "Castle in the Sky ". After working on theGainax film "The Wings of Honneamise " and theOVA s "Devilman " and "Meikyū Bukken File 538 ", Kondō began to be known for the high quality of his work.Kondō collaborated with
Ken'ichi Sakemi on a manga retelling of theJoan of Arc story, as well as doing the character designs for the "Jade Cocoon" video game series. He also collaborated with Sakemi by creating the character designs for the 1990 NTV TV movie "Like the Clouds, Like the Wind " (based on Sakemi's novel "Kōkyū Monogatari"), which tells the story of a young country girl who is chosen to become one of the Emperor's concubines. He also worked withTomomi Mochizuki on the recentNHK "Minna no Uta " music video titled "Kaze no Tōri Michi", produced byAjia-do Animation Works forSayuri Horishita . He was recently announced as the supervising animator of the new Studio Ghibli film "Ponyo on a Cliff ". [Cite visual|title=Professional|date=2007-03-27 |medium=Television|distributor=NHK |location=Japan]Works
Listed alphabetically by year, with oldest at top.
Animation
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The Mighty Orbots " (1984, key animation)
*"Cat's Eye" (1985, key animation)
*"Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears " (1985, key animation)
*"Castle in the Sky " (1986, key animation)
*"Twilight Q " (1987, character design)
*"The Wings of Honneamise " (1987, key animation)
*"My Neighbor Totoro " (1988, original design)
*"Kiki's Delivery Service " (1989, animation director, character design)
*"Like the Clouds, Like the Wind " (1990, animation director, character design)
*"Rainbow Brite " (1990, key animation)
*"Only Yesterday " (1991, animation director)
*"Porco Rosso " (1992, key animation)
*"I Can Hear the Sea " (1993, animation director, character design)
*"Pom Poko " (1994, key animation)
*"Princess Mononoke " (1997, key animation)
*"My Neighbors the Yamadas " (1999, key animation)
*"The Aurora" (2000, 2D character design)
*"Devilman " (2003, OVA, key animation)
*"Howl's Moving Castle" (2004, animation supervisor, key animation)
*"Kaze no Tōri Michi" (2004, music video, key animation)
*"Dennō Coil " (2007, key animation)
*"Ponyo on a Cliff " (2008, key animation)Games
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Jade Cocoon " (PlayStation) (1998, character design, key animation, animation director)
*"Jade Cocoon 2 " (PlayStation 2) (2001, character design, key animation, animation director)Books and manga
*"Boku ga Suki na Hito e: Umi ga Kikoeru yori" (ISBN 4195551714,
1993-05-31 , ¥1200)
*"D'arc: Histoire de Jeanne D'arc", by Kenichi Sakemi and Kondō,Tokuma Shoten
**Volume 1: ISBN 4197700377,1995-09-30 , ¥950
**Volume 2: ISBN 4197700482,1996-09-30 , ¥950
*"Kondō Katsuya Art Works: Tamamayu Monogatari & Tamamayu Monogatari 2" (ISBN 4758010064, March 2002, ¥3990)References
External links
*en icon [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1733 Anime News Network]
*ja icon [http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0087930.htm Japan Movie Database]
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