Kazuko Tadano

Kazuko Tadano
Born	March 14, 1959 (Age 61) Hiroshima, Japan
Other names	KAZZ KAZZ-T
Occupation(s)	Animator, Character Designer, Illustrator, Animation Director
Years active	1980-present
Spouse	Hiromi Matsushita

Kazuko Tadano (只野 和子, Tadano Kazuko) is a Japanese character designer, animator, illustrator and animation director. She's mostly known for her design work for the first two seasons of the 1990s Sailor Moon anime.

Career

Tadano first worked on as an animation director for an episode of 1980s Saint Seiya anime. She then became a character designer for Dancouga – Super Beast Machine God, and Crystal Triangle.

In the 1990s, after working on various episodes for Goldfish Warning!, she the became a character designer for the first two seasons of the Sailor Moon TV series (Sailor Moon and Sailor Moon R), she provided some animation direction for many episodes. She also provided the designs for its first movie, Sailor Moon R: The Movie.

From the late 1990s to 2000s, after Sailor Moon, she designed the characters in Wedding Peach, Petite Princess Yucie, Jūsō Kikō Dancouga Nova, Valkyria Chronicles 3: An Unrecorded Chronicle, and Nobunagun.

In June 2018, it was announced that Tadano was chosen as a character designer for Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal: The Movie, a two-part anime film project that takes place as a "fourth season" of the Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal anime series, adapting the Dream arc of the original manga (Subtitled Dead Moon arc). She has stated that the designs for the films are "reminiscent of the past while bringing with them a modern nuance, all while being faithful to Ms. Takeuchi’s original imagery".

In December 2019, both Tadano and her husband, Hiromi Matsushita, were chosen as character designers for the upcoming sixth spin-off of the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series, Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens.

Personal life

She married Hiromi Matsushita, who was also an animation director on Sailor Moon.

Her favorite hobbies are going to karaoke, traveling, and her dislikes are exercising (though she prefers to walk).

Works

• Crystal Triangle (1987) - OAV Character Design, Animation Director
• Dancouga – Super Beast Machine God (1985) - Character Design (Shinobu, Masato, Laura), Animation Director (episodes 4, 19, 24), Key Animation (episodes 2, 17)
• Goldfish Warning! (1991-1992) - Animation Director (eps. 14, 19, 25, 30, 35, 43, 50)
• Jūsō Kikō Dancouga Nova (2007) - Character Design (Under the name of KAZZ)
• Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation (2018) - Chief Animation Director
• Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation Season 2 (2020) – Chief Animation Director, Animation Director (eps. 1), Key Animation (eps. 1)
• Mysterious Joker (2014-2015) - Animation Director (eps. 13, 19, 24, 26)
• Nobunagun (2014) - Character Design (under the name of KAZZ-T)
• Petite Princess Yucie (2002-2003) - Character Design, Animation Director, Opening
• Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal: The Movie -Part 1&2- (2021) - Character Design
• Sailor Moon (1992-1993) - Character Design, Animation Director (eps. 6, 12, 17, 21, 28, 34, 39, 46)
• Sailor Moon R (1993-1994) - Character Design, Animation Director (eps. 53, 58, 64, 69, 88)
• Sailor Moon R: The Movie (1993) - Character Design, Animation Director
• Saint Seiya (1986) - Animation Director (eps. 65)
• The World of Narue (2003) - Eyecatch Illustration
• Valkyria Chronicles 3: Unrecorded Chronicles (2011) - OAV Character Design, Chief Animation Director
• Wedding Peach (1995-1996) - Character Design
• Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens (2020) - Character Design, Chief Animation Director (OP, ED, eps. 4), Animation Director (eps. 1), Key Animation (eps. 1)

External links

• Kazuko Tadano at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Kazuko Tadano at Animecons.com
• Kazuko Tadano at IMDb