Toshiyuki Kato
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Toshiyuki Kato (加藤 敏幸, Kato Toshiyuki) is an animator and storyboard artist credited for his work on the TV adaptation of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure by David Production. He works primarily as one of the series' storyboard artists and the series director for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable.
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
Walk Like Crusaders Brochure
JoJo Great Festival Brochure
SC Episode 43 #1
SC Episode 43 #2
SC Episode 43 #3
SC Episode 43 #4
SC Episode 46 #1
SC Episode 46 #2
SC Episode 46 #3
SC Episode 46 #4
SC Episode 48 #1
SC Episode 48 #2
SC Episode 48 #3
SC Episode 48 #4
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]
