Katsuya Kondo

Personal Info

Known For Visual Effects

Gender Male

Birthday 1963-06-02 (61 years old)

Place of Birth Ehime, Japan

Also Known As Katsuya Kondoh, Katsuya Kondô, Kondô Katsuya, Katsuya Kondō, Kondō Katsuya, 近藤 勝也, Katsuya Kondou

Katsuya Kondo

Biography

Katsuya Kondō (近藤 勝也, born June 2, 1963, in Ehime Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist, character designer, animator, and animation director. He is best known for his character design work on the Studio Ghibli films Kiki's Delivery Service and Ocean Waves, as well as the PlayStation game Jade Cocoon. His character designs are considered the epitome of the Studio Ghibli style. After graduating from high school, he began working for Osamu Dezaki and Akio Sugino at their Studio Annapuru. Under the direction of Shinji Ōtsuka, Kondō worked as a key animator of the TV anime series Cat's Eye. He then worked as a free agent on such shows as The Mighty Orbots, Rainbow Brite, and Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears. His first work with Studio Ghibli was as a key animator on Castle in the Sky. After working on the Gainax film The Wings of Honneamise and the OVAs Devilman and Meikyū Bukken File 538, Kondō began to be known for the high quality of his work. Kondō collaborated with Ken'ichi Sakemi on a manga retelling of the Joan of Arc story, as well as doing the character designs for the Jade Cocoon video game series. He also collaborated with Sakemi by creating the character designs for the 1990 NTV TV movie Like the Clouds, Like the Wind (based on Sakemi's novel Kōkyū Monogatari), which tells the story of a young country girl who is chosen to become one of the Emperor's concubines. He also worked with Tomomi Mochizuki on the NHK Minna no Uta music video titled Kaze no Tōri Michi, produced by Ajia-do Animation Works for Sayuri Horishita. In 2007, he was announced as the supervising animator of the Studio Ghibli film Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. He also wrote the lyrics for the film's theme song. Description above from the Wikipedia article Katsuya Kondō, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Visual Effects

2023
The Boy and the Heron

as Key Animation

2021
Earwig and the Witch

as Character Designer

2014
When Marnie Was There

as Key Animation

2014
Ronja the Robber's Daughter

as Character Designer

2013
The Wind Rises

as Key Animation

2011
From Up on Poppy Hill

as Character Designer

2010
2008
Ponyo

as Animation Director

2007
Den-noh Coil

as Key Animation

2006
House Hunting

as Animation Director

2004
Howl's Moving Castle

as Key Animation

2004
The Path of Wind

as Character Designer

2004
Howl's Moving Castle

as Animation Supervisor

2000
The Aurora

as Character Designer

1999
My Neighbors the Yamadas

as Key Animation

1997
Princess Mononoke

as Animation

1994
Ocean Waves

as Animation Director

1994
Pom Poko

as Key Animation

1994
Ocean Waves

as Character Designer

1992
Porco Rosso

as Key Animation

1991
Only Yesterday

as Animation Director

1990
Like the Clouds, Like the Wind

as Character Designer

1990
Like the Clouds, Like the Wind

as Animation Director

1988
My Neighbor Totoro

as Animation

1987
Twilight Q

as Key Animation

1987
Twilight Q

as Character Designer

1986
Amon Saga

as Key Animation

1986
Castle in the Sky

as Key Animation

Director

2016
2016
Encounter

as Director

2016
Balance

as Director