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Kazuo Komatsubara

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series, Komatsubara worked as both character designer and animation director. He then caught the animation fandom boom at the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s as the character designer for the
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When not working on adaptations of the works of Nagai and Matsumoto, Komatsubara worked as character designer on
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was also a very popular character designer at Toei Animation, though he was beginning to do more work for
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Komatsubara also created original characters (not based on manga or other references) for the
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character design and animation director unless otherwise noted.
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on several projects, including the 1980 anime television series
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in 1972, Komatsubara moved on to work on other important 1970s
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on character designs for many of these shows. For the 1987
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Great Mazinger vs. Getter Robo G: Kuchu Daigekitotsu
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based on Galaxy Express 999) (1987; Chief Animator)
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animator
animation director
Yokohama
Kanagawa Prefecture
Japan
independently contracted
Toei Animation
board of directors
Oh! Production
Norio Shioyama
Kōichi Murata
Kōshin Yonekawa
cancerous
tumor
Devilman
anime
Getter Robo
Getter Robo G
UFO Robo Grendizer
Magne Robo Gakeen
Go Nagai
OVA
Space Battleship Yamato
TV series
Space Pirate Captain Harlock
Galaxy Express 999
Leiji Matsumoto
Shingo Araki
Tokyo Movie Shinsha

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