Kazuto Nakazawa

Kazuto Nakazawa
Kazuto Nakazawa
Born	March 4, 1968 (age 56); Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Other names	Takeshi Tsuji (辻武司)
Alma mater	Tokyo Animator Academy
Occupation(s)	Anime director, animator, illustrator, character designer

Kazuto Nakazawa (中澤一登, Nakazawa Kazuto, born March 4, 1968) is a Japanese character designer and director of numerous anime series and video games who also goes by the pseudonym Takeshi Tsuji (辻武司, Tsuji Takeshi). 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. 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 Animatrix's "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."^[1]

Filmography

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

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

El Hazard: The Magnificent World Setting Collection (神秘の世界エルハザード設定資料集). AIC, 1996. ISBN 978-4900817081
El-Hazard: The Wanderers Setting Collection (神秘の世界エルハザード TVシリーズ設定資料集). AIC, 1997. ISBN 978-4900817128
Tenchi in Tokyo Setting Collection (新天地無用! 設定資料集). AIC, 1998. ISBN 978-4900817166
Roman Album: Samurai Champloo. Dark Horse, 2007. ISBN 978-1593076429
Top Creators Teach How to Characters (トップクリエイターが教えるキャラクターの創り方『サムライチャンプルー』『エルゴプラクシー』にみるアニメーション制作現場). MC Press, 2007. ISBN 978-4901972949
B: The Beginning Artworks (B: The Beginning アートワークス). PIE International, 2019. ISBN 978-4756251848