Katsuya Kondo
Age: N/A | From: Ehime, Japan
Person Details
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Aliases: Katsuya Kondoh , Katsuya Kondô , Kondô Katsuya , Katsuya Kondō , Kondō Katsuya , 近藤 勝也 , Katsuya Kondou
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Ehime, Japan
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Movie Involvements: 30
TV Involvements: 2
Most Famous Work
Biography
Katsuya Kondō (近藤 勝也, born June 2, 1963, in Ehime Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist, character designer, animator, and animation director. He is best known for his character design work on the Studio Ghibli films Kiki's Delivery Service and Ocean Waves, as well as the PlayStation 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 and Akio Sugino at their Studio Annapuru. Under the direction of Shinji Ōtsuka, Kondō worked as a key animator of the TV anime 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 the Gainax film The Wings of Honneamise and the OVAs 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 the Joan 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 with Tomomi Mochizuki on the NHK Minna no Uta music video titled Kaze no Tōri Michi, produced by Ajia-do Animation Works for Sayuri Horishita. In 2007, he was announced as the supervising animator of the Studio Ghibli film Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. He also wrote the lyrics for the film's theme song. Description above from the Wikipedia article Katsuya Kondō, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
Howl's Moving Castle
(2004) Key Animation
Ponyo
(2008) Animation Director
My Neighbor Totoro
(1988) Animation
Castle in the Sky
(1986) Key Animation
The Boy and the Heron
(2023) Key Animation
Princess Mononoke
(1997) Animation
Ocean Waves
(1993) Animation Director
The Secret World of Arrietty
(2010) Key AnimationActing
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Visual Effects
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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| 2023 | Key Animation | |
| 2022 | Animation | |
| 2021 | Character Designer | |
| 2014 | Key Animation | |
| 2013 | Key Animation | |
| 2011 | Character Designer | |
| 2010 | Key Animation | |
| 2008 | Animation Director | |
| 2007 | Key Animation | |
| 2006 | Animation Director | |
| 2004 | Character Designer | |
| Animation Supervisor | ||
| Key Animation | ||
| 2000 | Character Designer | |
| 1999 | Key Animation | |
| 1997 | Animation | |
| 1994 | Key Animation | |
| 1993 | Character Designer | |
| Animation Director | ||
| 1992 | Key Animation | |
| 1991 | Animation Director | |
| 1990 | Character Designer | |
| Animation Director | ||
| 1988 | Animation | |
| 1987 | Key Animation | |
| Key Animation | ||
| 1986 | Key Animation | |
| Key Animation | ||
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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| 2022 | Director | |
| 2016 | Director | |
| Director | ||
| Director | ||
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