Kazuya Kuroda

Kazuya Kuroda (黒田 和也, Kuroda Kazuya) is a Japanese animator, character designer and illustrator. He made with his debut with the Gainax series, Top Wo Nerae! and Fushigi no Umi no Nadia, where he contributed the in-between and key animation respectively. He was then the character designer and the chief animation director of Gonzo's Vandread, where his style of art and animation, especially of the female characters, brought him a great number of fans and renown.

Works

TV anime

• Fushigi no Umi no Nadia (in-between and key animation)
• Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon S (animation director)
• Musekinin Kanchō Tylor (key animation)
• Neon Genesis Evangelion (key animation)
• VS Knight Lamune & 40 Fire (animation character design and animation director)
• Master of Mosquiton 99 (character design)
• Gate Keepers (animation director)
• Vandread (character design and chief animation director)
• Vandread: The Second Stage (character design and chief animation director)
• Chrono Crusade (character design and chief animation director)
• Saishū Heiki Kanojo (key animation)
• Chōjūshin Gravion (key animation)
• Raimuiro Senkitan (key animation)
• Kaibutsu Ōjo (character design and chief animation director)
• Spice and Wolf (character design and chief animation director)

OVA

• Top Wo Nerae! (in-between animation)
• 1982 Otaku no Video (key animation)
• 1985 Zoku Otaku no Video (key animation)
• Teito Monogatari: Chapter 1 (key animation)
• Macross Dynamite 7 (OP/ED animation)
• Dōkyūsei 2 (episodes 11 and 12 key animation)
• Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem (key animation)
• Sakura Wars: The Gorgeous Blooming Cherry Blossoms (character design)
• Sakura Wars: The Radiant Gorgeous Blooming Cherry Blossoms (character design)
• Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei (character design)

Adult anime

• Hōkago Mania Club (package key animation and poster key animation)
• Sora no Iro, Mizu no Iro (character design and chief animation director) (Note: The original character designs were done by Tony Taka and appeared in a hentai game by the same name as the animation, in which Kazuya Kuroda only redrew the characters. Basically, he designed the characters in his own style by copying another artist's character designs.)
• 15 Beautiful Girls Adrift (character design and chief animation director) (Note: All girls were covergirls from the BugBug Magazine)

Anime films

• Yū Yū Hakusho: Meikai Shitō-hen Honō no Kizuna (key animation)
• Tenchi Muyō!: TENCHI MUYO in LOVE (animation director)

Games

• Gate Keepers (animation director)
• Akiba-kei Kanojo (key telephone card illustrations; 18+)

Illustrations

• Saber Marionette R (novel illustrations)
• BugBug (cover illustrations)
• Stars over Heaven (Trading card illustration)
• Mist la Rouge (Trading card illustrations; 2nd volume)
• Toranoana: 2006 Fuyu no Dai Kansha-sai (Trading card illustrations; 2nd volume)

External links

• Kazuya Kuroda at Anime News Network's encyclopedia