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Tadayoshi Yamamuro in March 2013
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Tadayoshi Yamamuro (山室直儀; born in 1960) is a Japanese animator and character designer. He is the Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, and Dragon Ball Heroes character designer. He is known for his straight style, as opposed to Minoru Maeda's rounded style, and he is recognized as the best animator and illustrator for the 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 was animation director for the Dragon Ball Z episodes 122, 127, 133, 137, 143, 147, 152, 157, 162, 168, 173, 185, 200, 206, 232, 242, 249, 255, and 285. For the Dragon Ball GT episodes 13, 19, 25, 31, 40, 42, 48, 52, and 59. And for the new animation produced for Dragon Ball Kai and Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi.
Yamamuro in the 1990s
Tadayoshi Yamamuro worked on the movies Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure and Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might, and he was the character designer for the Dragon Ball Z movies Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan, Bojack Unbound, Broly - Second Coming, Bio-Broly, Fusion Reborn, Wrath of the Dragon, The Path to Power, Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!, Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans, Episode of Bardock, and Battle of Gods. He also drew cover arts for the movie Dragon Boxes and for 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.
Trivia
- Tadayoshi Yamamuro once said that his favorite character among those that he designed is Janemba.
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 Super Saiyans, as designed by Yamamuro  Bio-Broly poster  Fusion Reborn poster .jpg "FusionRebornPoster(Yamamuro).jpg (77 KB)") Fusion Reborn poster  Gogeta poster  Wrath of the Dragon poster  The Movies boxart DVD cover designed by Yamamuro  Goku and Bulma, by Yamamuro  Puar and Yamcha  Krillin and Goku  Goku and the Red Ribbon Army  The Turtle School  Yajirobe and Goku  Adult Goku  Yamamuro's process to draw Teen Gohan     Dragon Ball Kai poster  Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!! poster .jpg "DVD&Blu-rayVisionCoverByYamamuro(April2013).jpg (356 KB)") Yamamuro's cover for the April 2013 DVD & Blu-ray Vision .jpg "Yamamuro(March2013).jpg (71 KB)") Yamamuro on Hokotate (TV program) in 2013 Yamamuro drawing Goku (March 2013) .jpg "TadayoshiYamamuro1(OKStars).jpg (67 KB)") Yamamuro in 2013 |
