Kazuto Nakazawa
Kazuto Nakazawa is a Japanese character designer and director of numerous anime series and video games who also goes by the pseudonym Takeshi Tsuji. His directorial work includes Parasite Dolls, the anime sequence in Kill Bill: Volume 1, and the Moondrive segment of Genius Party Beyond. He has designed characters for many anime, such as Ashita no Nadja and Samurai Champloo, for which he also served as animation director.
Kazuto Nakazawa
- Name
- Kazuto Nakazawa
- Born
- 4 March 1968
- Birthplace
- Niigata Prefecture, Japan
- Education
- Tokyo Animator Academy
- Occupation
- Anime director, animator, illustrator, character designer
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
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Kazuto Nakazawa is a Japanese character designer and director of numerous anime series and video games who also goes by the pseudonym Takeshi Tsuji. His directorial work includes Parasite Dolls, the anime sequence in Kill Bill: Volume 1, and the Moondrive segment of Genius Party Beyond. He has designed characters for many anime, such as Ashita no Nadja and Samurai Champloo, for which he also served as animation director.
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Biography
Biography
In addition to his work with anime, he designed the characters of Tales of Legendia and was the animation director of Devil Kings. Throughout his career, he has worked also as an animator, providing key animations to anime such as The Animatrixs "Kid's Story" and "A Detective Story". He has made two appearances at anime conventions in the United States: at Otakon in 1999 and 2006. He also animated the Joe Hahn-directed music video for the Linkin Park song "Breaking the Habit."
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Kazuto Nakazawa • Born — 4 March 1968 • Birthplace — Niigata Prefecture, Japan • Education — Tokyo Animator Academy • Other Names — Takeshi Tsuji • Occupation — Anime director, animator, illustrator, character designer
TV series
TV series
• El-Hazard (1995) – character designer, chief animation director • Tenchi in Tokyo (1997) – character designer, chief animation director • Black Heaven (1999) – character designer • Final Fantasy: Unlimited (2001) – character designer • Ashita no Nadja (2003) – character designer • Samurai Champloo (2004) – character designer, chief animation director • Yurururu ~Nichijou Hen~ (2007) – director • House of Five Leaves (2010) – character designer, chief animation director • Terror in Resonance (2014) – character designer, chief animation director • Days (2016) – character designer • B: The Beginning (2018) - creator, director, character designer, key animation supervisor • Fena: Pirate Princess (2021) – creator, director, original character designer
OVAs/ONAs
OVAs/ONAs
• El Hazard: The Magnificent World (1995) – character designer • Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko (1996) – character designer • Battle Arena Toshinden (1996) – character designer • Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko II (1997) – character designer • El Hazard 2: The Magnificent World (1997) – character designer • COMEDY (2002) – director • Parasite Dolls (2003) – director • Vassalord (2013) – director • B: The Beginning (2018) – creator, director, character designer, chief animation director • B: The Beginning – Succession (2021) – creator, chief director, character designer, series composition • Love Through a Prism (2026) – director
Video games
Video games
• Le Roman de la Reine (1998) – character designer • Tales of Legendia (2005) – character designer • Asura's Wrath (2012) – director & main character designer (ep 15.5)
Music videos
Music videos
• Linkin Park - Breaking the Habit (2004) – director • ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION - Atarashii Sekai (2008) – director • supercell - Utakata Hanabi (2010) – director
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
1968
Kazuto Nakazawa born.
Films
• Hells Angels (2008) – character designer • Genius Party Beyond: Moondrive (2008) – director, character designer • Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai (2009) – character designer • COMEDY SKIT (Hitman) 1989 (2015) – director
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Notes from the source article
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- 1.『Genius Party BEYOND 公式ガイドブック』27頁。
- 2.Production I.G [WORK LIST[Details]].
- 3.卒業生インタビュー：アニメ『サムライチャンプルー』キャラクターデザイン［中澤一登］ - 学院の特色｜東京アニメーター学院 - 声優・漫画家志望、アニメーション業界でプロを目指す方専門の学校. 東京アニメーター学院.
- 4.『Genius Party BEYOND 公式ガイドブック』24頁。
- 5.Production I.G [WHAT'S NEW].
- 6.London International Awards.
- 7.『G -ONE- MASAMI OBARI'S WORKS』、1998年12月1日発行、株式会社ムービック、P116。
- 8.Kazuto NAKAZAWA.
- 9.Kazuto Nakazawa.
- 10.新・天地無用！｜アニメキャスト・動画配信情報・1997春アニメ最新情報一覧.
- 11.FF:U ～ファイナルファンタジー：アンリミテッド～｜アニメ声優・キャラクター・登場人物・2001秋アニメ最新情報一覧.
- 12.Upcoming Anime Titles.
- 13.さらい屋五葉｜アニメ声優・キャラクター・登場人物・動画配信情報・2010春アニメ最新情報一覧.
- 14.Cowboy Bebop Director Watanabe, Composer Kanno Make Zankyō no Terror Anime.
- 15.Soccer Anime DAYS Reveals Main Cast.
- 16.Crunchyroll, Adult Swim's Fena: Pirate Princess Original Anime Reveals Trailer, Art, Cast, Staff, Summer Launch.
- 17.デジモンアドベンチャー02 ディアボロモンの逆襲｜アニメキャスト・映画・動画配信情報・最新情報一覧.
- 18.Hells Angels Anime to Premiere in October in Japan.
- 19.Oshii Develops, Writes Musashi Miyamoto Samurai Film (Update 2).
- 20.Studio 4°C's Genius Party Beyond Trailer Posted.
- 21.B: The Beginning Anime Reveals Trailer, March 2 Worldwide Debut.
- 22.B: The Beginning Season 2's Trailer Reveals More Cast, Staff, March 18 Global Debut.
- 23.Boys Over Flowers' Yoko Kamio, WIT Studio Create Love Through a Prism Anime for Netflix.
- 24.OVA それゆけ！宇宙戦艦ヤマモト・ヨーコ｜アニメ声優・OVA・動画配信情報・最新情報一覧.
- 25.Parasite Dolls at BAAF.
- 26.Nanae Chrono's Vampire Anime Vassalord Previewed in Video.
- 27.DAYS Soccer Manga to Bundle to 2 New Original Anime DVDs.
- 28.DAYS Soccer TV Anime Gets Finale as 3 New Original Anime DVDs.
- 29.NHK Launches Ani-Kuri 15.
- 30.I.G. and Kazuto Nakazawa to Animate "Asience: Hairy Tails".
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