Naokatsu Tsuda

Naokatsu Tsuda
Japanese Name	津田 尚克
Profile
Gender	Male
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Director
Other Information
Affiliation	David Production
Media
Anime Debut	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation

Naokatsu Tsuda (津田 尚克, Tsuda Naokatsu) is the creative director for the TV adaptation of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure by David Production. Aside from directing episodes, he also storyboards several of them.

As an employee of David Production, he was approached by the company's vice president, Koji Kajita, after directing Inu x Boku SS and was subsequently asked to be the director for the JoJo TV series.

Contributions

• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation
  • Director
  • Storyboard (ED; ep 1)
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders
  • Director
  • Script (ep 18)
  • Episode Director (ep 1, 20, 24)
  • Storyboard (eps 1-2, 18, 24, 27, 34-35, 39, 47)
  • Episode Director Cooperation (eps 34, 43)
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable
  • Director
  • Storyboard (eps 1, 14, 20, 27, 36, 39)
  • Episode Director (eps 4, 14, 27, 31-32, 38-39)
  • Episode Director Cooperation (ep 28)
  • Opening Animation Director (OP 1)
  • Opening Animation Storyboard (OP 1)

Trivia

• In his high school days, Tsuda's favorite JoJo was Giorno Giovanna.