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Akira Toriyama with his pet cat, Koge (1987)


Tadayoshi Yamamuro (山室直儀 Yamamuro Tadayoshi), sometime incorrectly translated as Naoyoshi Yamamuro, is a Japanese animator and character designer. He is the character designer for Dragon Ball Super and Dragon Ball Heroes and was one of the character designers for Dragon Ball Z. 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[]

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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 also produced new animation for Dragon Ball Kai and Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi.

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Yamamuro in the 1990s

Tadayoshi Yamamuro worked on the movies and he was the character designer for the Dragon Ball Z movies and OVAs. He also drew cover arts for the Dragon Boxes and video games.

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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.

Filmography[]

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Episodes Supervised[]

Trunks Saga
Androids Saga
Imperfect Cell Saga
Perfect Cell Saga
Cell Games Saga
Great Saiyaman Saga
Majin Buu Saga
Fusion Saga
Kid Buu Saga
Black Star Dragon Ball Saga
Baby Saga
Super 17 Saga
Shadow Dragon Saga

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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