Tadayoshi Yamamuro

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Tadayoshi Yamamuro (山室直儀; born in 1960), sometime incorrectly translated as Naoyoshi Yamamuro, is a Japanese animator and character designer. He is the Dragon Ball Super and Dragon Ball Heroes character designer. 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

KatsuyoshiNakatsuru — 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.

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, Battle of Gods, and Resurrection ‘F’. He also drew cover arts for the movie Dragon Boxes and for video games.

DBKaiPosterArt3 — *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.
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.

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v · d · eDragon Ball production staff

Companies	Bird Studio • Caramel Mama • Shueisha • Toei Animation

Author(s)	Akira Toriyama • Naho Ooishi* • Toyotarou* • Yoshitaka Nagayama*

Assistants	Takashi Matsuyama

Editors	Akio Iyoku* • Daisuke Terashi* • Fuyuto Takeda • Kazuhiko Torishima • Shinichi Fukumitsu* • Victory Uchida* • Yū Kondō

Directors	Akinori Nagaoka • Atsutoshi Umezawa • Aya Komaki • Daisuke Nishio • Hideaki Maniwa • Hidehiko Kadota • Hiroki Shibata • Hiroyuki Kakudō • Johei Matsuura • Jun'ichi Fujise • Katsumi Aoshima • Kazuhisa Takenouchi • Kazuhito Kikuchi • Keiko Hashimoto • Masahiro Hosoda • Minoru Okazaki • Mitsuo Hashimoto • Nobuhiro Komatsu • Osamu Kasai • Shigeyasu Yamauchi • Takahiro Imamura • Tatsuya Orime • Toshihiro Ishikawa • Yasuhiro Kamimura • Yasuhiro Nowatari • Yoshihiro Ueda • Yutaka Satō

Producers	Chiaki Imada • Gyarmath Bogdan • Hiromi Seki • James Wong • Kazumitsu Matsusaka • Keizo Shichijo • Kenji Shimizu • Kōji Kaneda • Kouichi Hirose • Kōzō Morishita • Rikizō Kayano • Seiichi Hiruta • Tamio Kojima • Tan Takaiwa • Tokizō Tsuchiya • Tomio Anzai • Tsutomu Tomari • Yoshiaki Yanagi

Production managers	Akihiko Yamaguchi • Atsunori Kazama • Kazumi Fujioka • Matsuji Kishimoto • Takeshi Torimoto • Yuichi Suenaga

Screenwriters	Akira Toriyama • Atsushi Maekawa • Aya Matsui • Ben Ramsey • Daisuke Yajima • Hajime Satsuki • Hiroko Miyazaki • Hiroshi Toda • Junki Takegami • Katsumi Aoshima • Katsuyuki Sumisawa • Keiji Terui • Masashi Kubota • Michiru Shimada • Miho Maruo • Shun'ichi Yukimuro • Takao Koyama • Toshiki Inoue • Yoshifumi Yuki • Yoshiyuki Suga • Yūsuke Watanabe

Art directors	Mitsuo Shindō • Yoshiyuki Yamamoto • Kunio Kaneshima • Iwamitsu Ito • Hiromitsu Shiozaki • Yuji Ikeda • Shigenori Takada • Masahiro Shimanuki • Ryuuji Yoshiike • Hiroshi Katō • Teppei Horita

Anime designers	Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru • Minoru Maeda • Naohiro Shintani • Tadayoshi Yamamuro

Animators	Akemi Seki • Akiko Matsumoto • Akio Katada • Akira Inagami • Akira Kato • Ayumi Kondou • Chiori Matsuda • Daisuke Hiruma • Hideaki Maniwa • Hideko Okimoto • Hiroaki Shimizu • Hiromi Matsushita • Katsumi Aoshima • Mamoru Hosoda • Masayuki Uchiyama • Naoki Miyahara • Naotoshi Shida • Romel Pura • Sai Yamane • Sonomi Aramaki • Tatsuo Miura • Tomoko Hirokawa • Toshiyuki Kan'no • Tsuyako Yamamuro • Yasunori Gotō • Yumiko Watanabe • Yutaka Hirose • Yutaka Itō

Special Effects	Asami Aoki • Hidenori Arai • Nao Ōta • Yūji Okajima

Music composers	Shunsuke Kikuchi • Chiho Kiyooka • Akihito Tokunaga • Kenji Yamamoto • Norihito Sumitomo • Shuki Levy • Kussa Mahchi • Ron Wasserman • Bruce Faulconer • Julius Dobos • Mike Smith • Scott Morgan • Andy Baylor • Dale Kelly • Mark Akin • Scot Risch • Tom Keenlyside • John Mitchell • David Iris • Mark Menza • Dave Moran • Nathan Johnson • Jeremy Sweet • Shigeru Miyashita

Vocalists	Ayumi Hamasaki • Hironobu Kageyama • Takayoshi Tanimoto

Voice actors	Japanese voice actors • Blue Water voice actors • Ocean voice actors • FUNimation voice actors

See also	Dr. Slump • Dragon Ball (manga • anime) • Dragon Ball Z • Dragon Ball GT • Dragon Ball Z Kai • Dragon Ball Super (manga • anime) • Super Dragon Ball Heroes (anime) • Dragon Ball Daima • Video games • Related manga • Dragon Ball Room

v · d · eAnimation Supervisor

Dragon Ball	Masayuki Uchiyama • Toshiyuki Kan'no

Dragon Ball Z	Ichio Hayashi • Kazuya Hisada • Masahiro Shimanuki • Tadayoshi Yamamuro • Yuya Takahashi • Naohiro Shintani • Yuuji Hakamada • Kenji Yokoyama • Masayuki Uchiyama • Takeo Ide • Toshiyuki Kan'no

Dragon Ball GT	Tadayoshi Yamamuro • Masayuki Uchiyama • Takeo Ide • Toshiyuki Kan'no

Dragon Ball Super	Masahiro Shimanuki • Yukihiro Kitano • Osamu Ishikawa • Yoshitaka Yashima • Naoki Tate • Yuichi Karasawa • Seizo Toma • Hiroyuki Itai • Koji Nashizawa • Hirotaka Nii • Tadayoshi Yamamuro • Shuichi Iseki • Yasuhiro Namatame • Tsutomu Ono • Shuuichiro Manabe • Yoichi Onishi • Yuya Takahashi • Eugene Ayson • Paul Año-Nuevo • Joey Calangian • Noel Año-Nuevo • Chihiro Tanaka • Kaori Takamura • Masanori Satō • Hideki Yamazaki • Midori Sawaki • Yui Kinoshita • Tomoko Kusunoki • Yuuji Hakamada • Miho Tanaka • Naohiro Shintani

Super Dragon Ball Heroes	Tadayoshi Yamamuro • Takeo Ide

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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)|''Dragon Ball'' franchise]].
+'''Tadayoshi Yamamuro''' (山室直儀; born in 1960), sometime incorrectly translated as '''Naoyoshi Yamamuro''', is a Japanese animator and character designer. He is the Dragon Ball Super and ''[[Dragon Ball Heroes]]'' character designer. 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)|''Dragon Ball'' franchise]].
 ==Biography==
-[[File:KatsuyoshiNakatsuru.jpg|thumb|Yamamuro at work]]
+[[File:KatsuyoshiNakatsuru.jpg|thumb|left|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, ''[[W:c:Drslump:Dr. Slump and Arale-chan|Dr. Slump and Arale-chan]]''. 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 (anime)|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 has been animation director for the ''Dragon Ball Z'' episodes [[Mystery Revealed|122]], [[A Handy Trick|127]], [[Nightmare Comes True|133]], [[Last Ditch Effort|137]], [[His Name is Cell|143]], [[Time Chamber|147]], [[Say Goodbye, 17|152]], [[Hour of Temptation|157]], [[Trunks Ascends|162]], [[Meet Me in the Ring|168]], [[Dende's Dragon|173]], [[Awakening|185]], [[Gohan Goes to High School|200]], [[The Newest Super Saiyan|206]], [[Buu is Hatched|232]], [[Learn to Fuse!|242]], [[Return to Other World|249]], [[Buu Against Buu|255]], and [[People of Earth Unite|285]]. For the ''Dragon Ball GT'' episodes [[The Man Behind the Curtain|13]], [[A General Uprising|19]], [[Baby's Arrival|25]], [[Collapse From Within|31]], [[Piccolo's Decision|40]], [[A Dangerous Union|42]], [[The Shadow Dragons|48]], [[The Seven-Star Dragon|52]], and [[Super Saiyan 4 Vegeta|59]]. And for the new animation produced for ''[[Dragon Ball Kai]]'' and ''[[Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi]]''.
+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, ''[[W:c:Drslump:Dr. Slump and Arale-chan|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 (anime)|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 [[Mystery Revealed|122]], [[A Handy Trick|127]], [[Nightmare Comes True|133]], [[Last Ditch Effort|137]], [[His Name is Cell|143]], [[Time Chamber|147]], [[Say Goodbye, 17|152]], [[Hour of Temptation|157]], [[Trunks Ascends|162]], [[Meet Me in the Ring|168]], [[Dende's Dragon|173]], [[Awakening|185]], [[Gohan Goes to High School|200]], [[The Newest Super Saiyan|206]], [[Buu is Hatched|232]], [[Learn to Fuse!|242]], [[Return to Other World|249]], [[Buu Against Buu|255]], and [[People of Earth Unite|285]]. For the ''Dragon Ball GT'' episodes [[The Man Behind the Curtain|13]], [[A General Uprising|19]], [[Baby's Arrival|25]], [[Collapse From Within|31]], [[Piccolo's Decision|40]], [[A Dangerous Union|42]], [[The Shadow Dragons|48]], [[The Seven-Star Dragon|52]], and [[Super Saiyan 4 Vegeta|59]]. And for the new animation produced for ''[[Dragon Ball Kai]]'' and ''[[Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi]]''.
-[[File:DBKaiPosterArt3.PNG|thumb|left|160px|''Dragon Ball Kai'' poster, by Yamamuro]]
+[[File:TadayoshiYamamuro.jpg|thumb|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 ''[[Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan|Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan]]'', ''[[Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound|Bojack Unbound]]'', ''[[Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming|Broly - Second Coming]]'', ''[[Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly|Bio-Broly]]'', ''[[Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn|Fusion Reborn]]'', ''[[Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon|Wrath of the Dragon]]'', ''[[Dragon Ball: The Path to Power|The Path to Power]]'', ''[[Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!|Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!]]'', ''[[Dragon Ball: Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans|Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans]]'', ''[[Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock|Episode of Bardock]]'', and ''[[Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods|Battle of Gods]]''. He also drew cover arts for the movie [[Dragon Box]]es and for [[video game]]s.
+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 ''[[Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan|Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan]]'', ''[[Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound|Bojack Unbound]]'', ''[[Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming|Broly - Second Coming]]'', ''[[Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly|Bio-Broly]]'', ''[[Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn|Fusion Reborn]]'', ''[[Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon|Wrath of the Dragon]]'', ''[[Dragon Ball: The Path to Power|The Path to Power]]'', ''[[Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!|Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!]]'', ''[[Dragon Ball: Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans|Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans]]'', ''[[Dragon Ball: Episode of Bardock|Episode of Bardock]]'', ''[[Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods|Battle of Gods]]'', and ''[[Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’|Resurrection ‘F’]]''. He also drew cover arts for the movie [[Dragon Box]]es and for [[video game]]s.
+[[File:DBKaiPosterArt3.PNG|thumb|160px|left|''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''. He is the character designer and chief animation director of the 2008 ''GeGeGe no Kitaro'' anime adaptation.
+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.
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 ==Trivia==
-*Tadayoshi Yamamuro once said that his favourite character among those that he designed is [[Janemba]].
+*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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 DBZ group pic.png|Super Saiyans, as designed by Yamamuro
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 DBKaiPosterArt.PNG|''Dragon Ball Kai'' poster
 Yosh!.png|''Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!'' poster
+DVD&Blu-rayVisionCoverByYamamuro(April2013).jpg|Yamamuro's cover for the April 2013 ''DVD & Blu-ray Vision''
+12279015_850764601704297_7033776299592740610_n.jpg|Yamamuro's design for Super Saiyan 4 Gohan in ''Dragon Ball Heroes''
+Yamamuro(March2013).jpg|Yamamuro on ''Hokotate'' (TV program) in 2013
+TadayoshiYamamuro1(OKStars).jpg|Yamamuro in 2013
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 ==External links==
 *[http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E5%AE%A4%E7%9B%B4%E5%84%80 Tadayoshi Yamamuro's biography] (Japanese)
 *[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=13935 Tadayoshi Yamamuro's work, at animenewsnetwork.com]
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