is a Japanese

animator An animator is an artist who creates images, known as frames, which give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, and video games. Animat ...

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and illustrator. He is often noted for his work with anime studio

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Helen McCarthy Helen McCarthy (born 27 February 1951) is the British author of such anime reference books as ''500 Manga Heroes and Villains'', ''Anime!'', ''The Anime Movie Guide'' and ''Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation''. She is the co-author o ...

in ''500 Essential Anime Movies'' commented that he "shot to fame" in 1985 as an animation director on the '' Zeta Gundam'' TV series. McCarthy, Helen. ''500 Essential Anime Movies: The Ultimate Guide''. Harper Design, 2009. p. 62. .

Works

Anime television

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Aura Battler Dunbine is an anime television series created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and produced by Sotsu and Sunrise. Forty-nine episodes aired on Nagoya TV from February 5, 1983, to January 21, 1984. A three-episode anime OVA sequel entitled ''New Story of Aura ...

'' (1983) - Animation Director (episodes 23, 33, 37, 42, 45, and 47) *''

Heavy Metal L-Gaim is a mecha anime television series, begun in 1984, which was created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino. Its characters and mecha In science fiction, or mechs are giant robots or machines, typically depicted as piloted, humanoid walking ...

'' (1984)- Animation Director (episodes 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 23, 27, 30, and 37) *''

Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross is a Japanese science fiction mecha anime TV series released in 1984, as the third of the Super Dimension series. It was adapted as "The Masters Saga" or the "Second Generation" of the American TV series ''Robotech''. Plot In the year 212 ...

'' (1984) - Secondary Character Designer *''

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam is a 1985 Japanese television anime series, the second installment in the ''Gundam'' franchise, and a sequel to the original ''Mobile Suit Gundam''. The show was created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, with character designs by Yoshikazu ...

'' (1985) - Animation Director (episodes 1, 6, 11, 15, 19, 23, 26, and 36) *''

Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ is the third installment in Sunrise's long running '' Gundam'' franchise and the last TV series in the franchise released in Japan's Shōwa period. A direct follow up to '' Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam'', it is directed and written by Yoshiyuki ...

'' (1986) - Character Designer; Animation Director (episodes 2, 32 and 47)

Original video animation (OVA)

* '' Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei'': Character Design * ''

Megazone 23 is a Japanese animated mecha cyberpunk film series created by Noboru Ishiguro, written by Hiroyuki Hoshiyama and Emu Arii, and directed by Ishiguro, Ichiro Itano, Kenichi Yatagai, and Shinji Aramaki. The three-part original video anima ...

'': Key Animation (Part 2), Character Designer (Part 3) * ''

Robot Carnival is a Japanese anthology original video animation (OVA) and anime film released in 1987. The film consists of nine shorts by different well-known directors, many of whom started out as animators with little to no directing experience. Each has ...

'': Director, Script, Character Design (''Starlight Angel'') * '' Dragon Century'': Animation Director and Character Designer * ''

Genesis Survivor Gaiarth was an anime OVA series produced by AIC and Artmic in 1992. The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic, dystopian future, chronicling the story of a young man named Ital Del Labard and his partner, the war-roid Zaxon. It was licensed and dis ...

'': Screenplay, Original Concept, Character Design, Key Animation (ep. 1) * ''

Moldiver is a 6-episode 1993 OVA anime series. It is a parody of magical girl and superhero anime series. Plot The plot focuses on a young girl by the name of Mirai Ozora, living in Tokyo in 2045. Being obsessed with her hobbies of shopping and model ...

'': Director, Original Concept, Character Design, Animation Director (ep. 6), Animation (OP/ED) * ''

Yamato 2520 was Yoshinobu Nishizaki's attempt at a sequel to ''Space Battleship Yamato'', set several hundred years after the original series. However, Nishizaki was sued by Leiji Matsumoto for breach of copyright. Ultimately, ''Yamato 2520'' was left ...

'' Character Designer

Anime films

* '' Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack'': Character Design, Animation Director

References

External links

Hiroyuki Kitazume
anime works in Media Arts Database * 1961 births Anime character designers Living people Japanese animated film directors Japanese animators Manga artists from Tokyo Sunrise (company) people {{Anime-bio-stub