Originally affiliated with Studio Deen and Gallop, he currently works for David Production. He is particularly known to visually distort scenes to "move the atmosphere without moving the picture.[1]"
Credits
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation
- Storyboard (eps 2, 7, 14, 20, 26)
- Episode Director (eps 2, 7, 14, 20, 26)
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders
- Storyboard (eps 3, 10-11, 19-20, 26, 29, 43, 46, 48)
- Episode Director (eps 3, 10-11, 19, 26, 29, 46, 48)
- Chief Episode Director
- Episode Director Cooperation (eps 2, 23-24, 37)
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable
- Series Director
- Storyboard (eps 2, 5, 9, 12, 22, 35-36)
- Episode Director (eps 2, 4, 14, 35, 38)
- Episode Director Cooperation (ep 28, 39)
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind
- Storyboard (ep 38)
- Episode Director Cooperation (eps 38-39)
- Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (OVA)
- Director
- Script (ep 5, 2, 9, 16)
- Episode Director (eps 5, 2)
- Storyboard (eps 5, 2, 9)
Gallery
Storyboards
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Walk Like Crusaders Brochure -
JoJo Great Festival Brochure -
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SC Episode 46 #1 -
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SC Episode 46 #3 -
SC Episode 46 #4 -
SC Episode 48 #1 -
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Example of Kato's scene distortion -
Example 2 -
Example 3
Videos
Trivia
- Kato's favorite scene from the TV anime was during the Anubis arc in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders when Polnareff is getting a shave at a salon. He notes the details of this scene were particularly nostalgic to him due to his own parents running a barber shop.[2]
