Kazuto Nakazawa

Kazuto Nakazawa (中澤 一登, Nakazawa Kazuto, born March 4, 1968) is a Japanese

• 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

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

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

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

• Linkin Park - Breaking the Habit (2004) – director
• ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION
  - Atarashii Sekai (2008) – director
• supercell - Utakata Hanabi (2010) – director

Bibliography

• 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

External links

• Kazuto Nakazawa at
  IMDb
• Kazuto Nakazawa at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Production IG Interview: "The Making of Asience 5"