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Tadayoshi Yamamuro (山室直儀 Yamamuro Tadayoshi), sometime incorrectly translated as Naoyoshi Yamamuro, is a Japanese animator and character designer. He is the character designer for Dragon Ball Super and Dragon Ball Heroes and was one of the character designers for Dragon Ball Z. He is known for his straight style, as opposed to Minoru Maeda's more rounded style, and he is recognized as the chief animator and illustrator of the modern Dragon Ball franchise.
Biography[]
Tadayoshi Yamamuro at work, in the 1990s
At a young age, Tadayoshi Yamamuro began learning martial arts in a Shaolin Temple. Years later, in 1984, he was hired in Mitsuo Shindō's production company and began working as an in-between animator for the TV adaptation of Akira Toriyama's Dr. Slump manga, Dr. Slump and Arale-chan (from 1986 to 1981). Tadayoshi Yamamuro gain fame working on animated movies such as Angel's Egg (1985) and Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986). He then worked as an in-between animator and key animator for Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. He became a main character designer for Dragon Ball Z after Minoru Maeda left Toei Animation in November 1992, at the end of the Perfect Cell Saga, a role that he shared with Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru until the end of Dragon Ball GT in November 1997. Yamamuro also produced new animation for Dragon Ball Kai and Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi.
Yamamuro in the 1990s
Tadayoshi Yamamuro worked on the movies and he was the character designer for the Dragon Ball Z movies and OVAs. He also drew cover arts for the Dragon Boxes and video games.
Dragon Ball Kai poster, by Yamamuro
Outside of the anime adaptations of Toriyama's manga series, Tadayoshi Yamamuro worked on Beet the Vandel Buster, Casshern Sins, Digimon, One Piece Film Strong World, Superflat Monogram, and Toriko (since 2011). He is the character designer and chief animation director of the 2008 GeGeGe no Kitaro anime adaptation.
Filmography[]
Anime[]
- Dragon Ball - In-Between Animation, Key Animation
- Dragon Ball Z - Animation Director (19 episodes), Key Animation (Shindo Pro)
- Dragon Ball GT - Chief Animation Director (ep 39), Animation Director (9 episodes), Key Animation (10 episodes)
- Dragon Ball Kai - Animation (OP & ED Staff)
- Dragon Ball Kai: The Final Chapters - Animation (OP/ED)
- Dragon Ball Super - Storyboard (ep 13), Character Design, Chief Animation Director (ep 13), Animation Director (OP #1, ED #1; ep 13), Animation Supervisor, Key Animation (ED #1)
Films[]
- Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure - Key Animation
- Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might - Key Animation
- Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan - Animation Director
- Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound - Animation Director, Key Animation
- Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming - Animation Director, Key Animation
- Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly - Animation Director, Key Animation
- Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn - Animation Director, Key Animation
- Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon - Animation Director, Key Animation
- Dragon Ball: The Path to Power - Animation Director, Key Animation
- Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods - Storyboard, Chief Animation Director, Animation Character Design, Key Animation
- Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ - Director, Storyboard, Chief Animation Director, Animation Director, Animation Character Design, Key Animation
ONAs[]
- Super Dragon Ball Heroes - Character Design, Episode Director (ep 7), Storyboard (36 episodes), Chief Animation Supervisor (21 episodes), Animation Supervisor (19 episodes)
OVAs[]
- Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock - Character Design, Animation Director, Key Animation
- Dragon Ball: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans - Character Design, Animation Director
- Dragon Ball: The Return of Son Goku and Friends! - Character Design, Animation Director, Key Animation
- Dream 9 Toriko & One Piece & Dragon Ball Z Super Collaboration Special - Character Design (Dragon Ball), Chief Animation Director (Dragon Ball)
Specials[]
- Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - The Father of Goku - Key Animation
Episodes Supervised[]
- 122: "Mystery Revealed"
- 127: "A Handy Trick"
- 133: "Nightmare Comes True"
- 137: "Last Ditch Effort"
- 143: "His Name is Cell"
- 147: "Time Chamber"
- 152: "Say Goodbye, 17"
- 157: "Hour of Temptation"
- 162: "Trunks Ascends"
- 168: "Meet Me In the Ring"
- 173: "Dende's Dragon"
- 185: "Awakening"
- 200: "Gohan Goes to High School"
- 206: "The Newest Super Saiyan"
- 232: "Buu is Hatched"
- 242: "Learn to Fuse!"
- 249: "Return to Other World"
- 255: "Buu Against Buu"
- 285: "People of Earth Unite"
- 19: "A General Uprising"
- 25: "Baby's Arrival"
- 31: "Collapse From Within"
- 40: "Piccolo's Decision"
- 42: "A Dangerous Union"
- 48: "The Shadow Dragons"
- 52: "The Seven-Star Dragon"
- 59: "Super Saiyan 4 Vegeta"
Trivia[]
- Tadayoshi Yamamuro once said that his favorite character among those that he designed is Janemba.
- He becomes the Animation Supervisor for Episode 13 and Episode 131 of Dragon Ball Super. These are the only episodes that he supervised. However, he was the storyboard director of the latest episodes of Universe Survival Saga.
Gallery[]
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