![]() ![]() ![]() He was the sole creative mind behind Comedy from the studio’s anthology Sweat Punch (2002). Started getting interested in direction at Studio 4C. His Kuroko no Basket cuts have attracted a lot of attention 1. ![]() His limber, flexible characters cater to the types of fight scenes Nakazawa excels in. He’s better known for his designs than his animation, with credits including Ashita no Nadja, El Hazard, Hells, Legend of Black Heaven, Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko, and Zankyou no Terror. Effectively, he took the realism of Takashi Nakamura and Satoru Utsunomiya and made it more easily accessible and popular 1.Īs an animator his major scenes are too numerous to list, but some of his most recognizable cuts come from shows where he served as character designer and animation director: Samurai Champloo, Kids on the Slope, House of Five Leaves, and so on. Close quarters fights of the type found in The Hakkenden are what made Nakazawa famous, so the impact of the series on Nakazawa’s work is apparent. He claims that at one time he had Ohira’s Hamaji’s Resurrection running on a loop in the background for weeks in his apartment. His biggest influences are Masami Obari (he was briefly employed at Obari’s Studio G-1) and Shinya Ohira. Animator, character designer, and director who has left a strong impact on anime from the early aughts and on. ![]()
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