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Katsuyoshi Yatabe

Director, Writer, Producer, Additional CreditsBorn July 11, 1956 (69 years)
Yatabe Katsuyoshi (谷田部 勝義) is a Japanese screenwriter and director born July 11, 1956 in Tokyo, Japan.

After graduating he joined the Department of Arts at Nihon Daigaku in 1975. In 1978 he joined Ad Cosmo but felt that as subcontrctractor there would be no real productions done and thus went on to join Sunrise in 1979. There he learned under Tomino Yoshiyuki and Takahashi Ryousuke before becoming freelancer.

He also uses the aliases of Futa Morita (森田 風太) and Kota Morita (森田 光太), which are the names of his sons.

Known For

  • Rurouni Kenshin
  • Dinosaur King
  • Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
  • Baki the Grappler
  • Hikaru no Go
  • NANA
  • Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
  • Strawberry Panic!
  • Gundress
  • Original: Dirty Pair OVA
  • Detective School Q
  • Tokyo Mew Mew
  • The Ideon: Be Invoked
  • Before Green Gables
  • Yoroiden Samurai Troopers
  • Mashin Hero Wataru

Filmography

2009
2006
NANA (TV Series)
2006
Strawberry Panic! (TV Series)
2004
2004
Burn Up Scramble (TV Series)
2004
2003
Detective School Q (TV Series)
2002
2002
Tokyo Mew Mew (TV Series)
2001
Hikaru no Go (TV Series)
2001
Baki the Grappler (TV Series)
1999
Shin Hakkenden (TV Series)
1999
1996
Rurouni Kenshin (TV Series)
1995
Dirty Pair Flash (TV Series)
1993
Muka Muka Paradise (TV Series)
1993
1993
1992
1988
1988
Mashin Hero Wataru (TV Series)
1988
F (TV Series)
1987
1985
1985
1984
1983
1983
1981
1980
New Gigantor (TV Series)
1980

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