Kazuo Komatsubara
Visual Effects
🎂 1943-12-24
Kazuo Komatsubara (小松原 一男 or 小松原 一夫, Komatsubara Kazuo, December 24, 1943 – March 24, 2000) was a Japanese animator, animation director and character designer born in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. He worked as an independently contracted character designer for Toei Animation in the 1970s and 1980s. He was a member of the board of directors of animation studio Oh! Production (which he helped found along with Norio Shioyama, Kōichi Murata, and Kōshin Yonekawa). He died on March 24, 2000 due to a cancerous tumor on his neck.
Visual Effects (38)

Animation Director
1986

Key Animation
1986

Character Designer
1981

Animation
1969

Animation Director
1969

Character Designer
1977

Character Designer
1976

Animation Director
1976

Animation Director
1982

Animation Director
1972

Character Designer
1985

Character Designer
1980

Animation Director
1980

Character Designer
1971

Character Designer
1984

Animation Director
1984

Key Animation
1998

Key Animation
1997

Key Animation
2001

Animation Director
1982

Animation Director
1997

Key Animation
1975

Animation Director
1981

Character Designer
1979

Animation Director
1979
Character Designer
1991

Animation Director
1978

Character Designer
1978

Character Designer
1980

Character Designer
1992

Character Designer
1999

Animation Director
1992

Animation Director
1985

Character Designer
1985

Character Designer
1988

Animation Director
1988

Animation Director
1985

Animation Director
1982