A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Kouji Watanabe
Kōji Watanabe
わたなべ こうじ
渡边浩二
渡辺 浩二
渡辺浩司
Koji Watanabe (渡辺 浩二, Watanabe Kōji) is a Japanese mechanical and character designer, animator and animation director.
Animation:
1978 Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo
Animation Director:
1978 Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo
2002 Blue Gender: The Warrior
2014 The Big First-Grader and the Small Second-Grader
2019 Lupin the Third: Prison of the Past
2019 Saekano the Movie: Finale
2021 Sword Art Online the Movie – Progressive – Aria of a Starless Night
2022 Delicious Party♡Precure Movie: Dreaming♡Children's Lunch!
Key Animation:
1978 Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo
1986 Arion
1992 Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Afterglow of Zeon
1996 Tenchi Muyo! In Love
1997 Slayers Great
2000 Digimon Adventure 02: Hurricane Touchdown! The Golden Digimentals
2001 Digimon Adventure 02: Diablomon Strikes Back
2002 Blue Gender: The Warrior
2002 Digimon Frontier: Revival of Ancient Digimon
2002 Digimon Tamers: Runaway Locomon
2003 One Piece: Dead End Adventure
2003 RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio
2004 Steamboy
2006 Digimon Savers: The Movie - Ultimate Power! Activate Burst Mode!!
2010 Mobile Suit Gundam 00 The Movie: -A Wakening of the Trailblazer-
2013 Dokidoki! Pretty Cure the Movie: Memories for the Future
2013 Short Peace
2014 Space Brothers: Number Zero
2014 The Big First-Grader and the Small Second-Grader
2015 Harmony
2019 Lupin the Third: Prison of the Past
2019 Saekano the Movie: Finale
2020 Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
2021 Sword Art Online the Movie – Progressive – Aria of a Starless Night
2022 Delicious Party♡Precure Movie: Dreaming♡Children's Lunch!
Mechanical Designer:
1978 Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo
1986 Arion
1992 Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Afterglow of Zeon
1996 Tenchi Muyo! In Love
1997 Slayers Great
2000 Digimon Adventure 02: Hurricane Touchdown! The Golden Digimentals
2001 Digimon Adventure 02: Diablomon Strikes Back
2002 Blue Gender: The Warrior
2002 Digimon Frontier: Revival of Ancient Digimon
2002 Digimon Tamers: Runaway Locomon
2003 One Piece: Dead End Adventure
2003 RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio
2004 Steamboy
2006 Digimon Savers: The Movie - Ultimate Power! Activate Burst Mode!!
2006 The Galaxy Railways: A Letter from the Abandoned Planet
2010 Mobile Suit Gundam 00 The Movie: -A Wakening of the Trailblazer-
2013 Dokidoki! Pretty Cure the Movie: Memories for the Future
2013 Short Peace
2014 Space Brothers: Number Zero
2014 The Big First-Grader and the Small Second-Grader
2015 Harmony
2019 Lupin the Third: Prison of the Past
2019 Saekano the Movie: Finale
2020 Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
2021 Sword Art Online the Movie – Progressive – Aria of a Starless Night
2022 Delicious Party♡Precure Movie: Dreaming♡Children's Lunch!
Production Design:
1978 Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo
1986 Arion
1992 Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Afterglow of Zeon
1996 Tenchi Muyo! In Love
1997 Slayers Great
2000 Digimon Adventure 02: Hurricane Touchdown! The Golden Digimentals
2001 Digimon Adventure 02: Diablomon Strikes Back
2002 Blue Gender: The Warrior
2002 Digimon Frontier: Revival of Ancient Digimon
2002 Digimon Tamers: Runaway Locomon
2003 One Piece: Dead End Adventure
2003 RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio
2004 Steamboy
2006 Digimon Savers: The Movie - Ultimate Power! Activate Burst Mode!!
2006 The Galaxy Railways: A Letter from the Abandoned Planet
2010 Mobile Suit Gundam 00 The Movie: -A Wakening of the Trailblazer-
2010 Welcome to the Space Show
2013 Dokidoki! Pretty Cure the Movie: Memories for the Future
2013 Short Peace
2014 Space Brothers: Number Zero
2014 The Big First-Grader and the Small Second-Grader
2015 Harmony
2019 Lupin the Third: Prison of the Past
2019 Saekano the Movie: Finale
2020 Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
2021 Sword Art Online the Movie – Progressive – Aria of a Starless Night
2022 Delicious Party♡Precure Movie: Dreaming♡Children's Lunch!
Prop Designer:
1978 Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo
1986 Arion
1992 Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Afterglow of Zeon
1996 Tenchi Muyo! In Love
1997 Slayers Great
2000 Digimon Adventure 02: Hurricane Touchdown! The Golden Digimentals
2001 Digimon Adventure 02: Diablomon Strikes Back
2002 Blue Gender: The Warrior
2002 Digimon Frontier: Revival of Ancient Digimon
2002 Digimon Tamers: Runaway Locomon
2003 One Piece: Dead End Adventure
2003 RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio
2004 Steamboy
2006 Digimon Savers: The Movie - Ultimate Power! Activate Burst Mode!!
2006 The Galaxy Railways: A Letter from the Abandoned Planet
2010 Mobile Suit Gundam 00 The Movie: -A Wakening of the Trailblazer-
2010 Welcome to the Space Show
2013 Dokidoki! Pretty Cure the Movie: Memories for the Future
2013 Short Peace
2014 Space Brothers: Number Zero
2014 The Big First-Grader and the Small Second-Grader
2015 Harmony
2019 Lupin the Third: Prison of the Past
2019 Saekano the Movie: Finale
2020 Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
2021 Sword Art Online the Movie – Progressive – Aria of a Starless Night
2022 Delicious Party♡Precure Movie: Dreaming♡Children's Lunch!
2024 Trapezium
Animation Director:
1995 El-Hazard: The Magnificent World
1997 Photon: The Idiot Adventures
2004 Bleach
2004 Phantom: The Animation
2010 Seikimatsu Occult Academy
2012 Space Brothers
2015 Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation
2015 One-Punch Man
2019 Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files {Rail Zeppelin} Grace note
2021 Shadows House
2022 Tokyo 24th Ward
2023 MASHLE: MAGIC AND MUSCLES
2023 UniteUp!
2024 Dragon Ball DAIMA
2024 Meiji Gekken: 1874
2024 WIND BREAKER
Character Designer:
1995 El-Hazard: The Magnificent World
1997 Photon: The Idiot Adventures
2004 Bleach
2004 Phantom: The Animation
2010 Seikimatsu Occult Academy
2012 Space Brothers
2015 Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation
2015 One-Punch Man
2018 RErideD – Derrida, who leaps through time –
2019 Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files {Rail Zeppelin} Grace note
2021 Shadows House
2022 Tokyo 24th Ward
2023 MASHLE: MAGIC AND MUSCLES
2023 UniteUp!
2024 Dragon Ball DAIMA
2024 Meiji Gekken: 1874
2024 WIND BREAKER
Key Animation:
1984 Cream Lemon
1990 Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
1991 3x3 Eyes
1991 Detonator Orgun
1992 Bastard!!
1992 Yu Yu Hakusho
1994 Key the Metal Idol
1994 New Cutey Honey
1995 El-Hazard: The Magnificent World
1997 Photon: The Idiot Adventures
1998 Neo Ranga
1999 Tenamonya Voyagers
2001 R.O.D: Read or Die
2002 Naruto
2002 RahXephon
2004 Bleach
2004 Kurau Phantom Memory
2004 Mars Daybreak
2004 Phantom: The Animation
2006 Ergo Proxy
2008 Birdy the Mighty: Decode
2008 Black Butler
2010 Night Raid 1931
2010 Seikimatsu Occult Academy
2012 Space Brothers
2015 Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation
2015 One-Punch Man
2018 Golden Kamuy
2018 RErideD – Derrida, who leaps through time –
2019 Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files {Rail Zeppelin} Grace note
2021 86 EIGHTY-SIX
2021 Shadows House
2022 SPY x FAMILY
2022 Tokyo 24th Ward
2023 MASHLE: MAGIC AND MUSCLES
2023 UniteUp!
2024 Dragon Ball DAIMA
2024 Meiji Gekken: 1874
2024 WIND BREAKER
Mechanical Designer:
1984 Cream Lemon
1990 Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
1991 3x3 Eyes
1991 Detonator Orgun
1992 Bastard!!
1992 Yu Yu Hakusho
1994 Key the Metal Idol
1994 New Cutey Honey
1995 El-Hazard: The Magnificent World
1997 Photon: The Idiot Adventures
1998 Neo Ranga
1999 Tenamonya Voyagers
2001 R.O.D: Read or Die
2002 Naruto
2002 RahXephon
2004 Bleach
2004 Kurau Phantom Memory
2004 Mars Daybreak
2004 Phantom: The Animation
2006 Ergo Proxy
2008 Birdy the Mighty: Decode
2008 Black Butler
2010 Night Raid 1931
2010 Seikimatsu Occult Academy
2012 Space Brothers
2015 Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation
2015 One-Punch Man
2017 ROBOMASTERS THE ANIMATED SERIES
2018 Golden Kamuy
2018 RErideD – Derrida, who leaps through time –
2019 Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files {Rail Zeppelin} Grace note
2021 86 EIGHTY-SIX
2021 LBX Girls
2021 Shadows House
2022 SPY x FAMILY
2022 Tokyo 24th Ward
2023 MASHLE: MAGIC AND MUSCLES
2023 UniteUp!
2024 Dragon Ball DAIMA
2024 Meiji Gekken: 1874
2024 WIND BREAKER
Prop Designer:
1984 Cream Lemon
1990 Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
1991 3x3 Eyes
1991 Detonator Orgun
1992 Bastard!!
1992 Yu Yu Hakusho
1994 Key the Metal Idol
1994 New Cutey Honey
1995 El-Hazard: The Magnificent World
1997 Photon: The Idiot Adventures
1998 Neo Ranga
1999 Tenamonya Voyagers
2001 R.O.D: Read or Die
2002 Naruto
2002 RahXephon
2004 Bleach
2004 Kurau Phantom Memory
2004 Mars Daybreak
2004 Phantom: The Animation
2006 Ergo Proxy
2008 Birdy the Mighty: Decode
2008 Black Butler
2010 Night Raid 1931
2010 Seikimatsu Occult Academy
2012 Space Brothers
2015 Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation
2015 One-Punch Man
2017 ROBOMASTERS THE ANIMATED SERIES
2018 Golden Kamuy
2018 RErideD – Derrida, who leaps through time –
2019 Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files {Rail Zeppelin} Grace note
2021 86 EIGHTY-SIX
2021 LBX Girls
2021 Shadows House
2022 SPY x FAMILY
2022 Tokyo 24th Ward
2023 MASHLE: MAGIC AND MUSCLES
2023 UniteUp!
2024 Dragon Ball DAIMA
2024 Meiji Gekken: 1874
2024 WIND BREAKER
Storyboard Artist:
1984 Cream Lemon
1990 Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
1991 3x3 Eyes
1991 Detonator Orgun
1992 Bastard!!
1992 Yu Yu Hakusho
1994 Key the Metal Idol
1994 New Cutey Honey
1995 El-Hazard: The Magnificent World
1997 Photon: The Idiot Adventures
1998 Neo Ranga
1999 Hunter × Hunter
1999 Tenamonya Voyagers
2001 R.O.D: Read or Die
2002 Naruto
2002 RahXephon
2004 Bleach
2004 Kurau Phantom Memory
2004 Mars Daybreak
2004 Phantom: The Animation
2006 Ergo Proxy
2008 Birdy the Mighty: Decode
2008 Black Butler
2010 Night Raid 1931
2010 Seikimatsu Occult Academy
2012 Space Brothers
2015 Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation
2015 One-Punch Man
2017 ROBOMASTERS THE ANIMATED SERIES
2018 Golden Kamuy
2018 RErideD – Derrida, who leaps through time –
2019 Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files {Rail Zeppelin} Grace note
2021 86 EIGHTY-SIX
2021 LBX Girls
2021 Shadows House
2022 SPY x FAMILY
2022 Tokyo 24th Ward
2023 MASHLE: MAGIC AND MUSCLES
2023 UniteUp!
2024 Dragon Ball DAIMA
2024 Meiji Gekken: 1874
2024 WIND BREAKER
Supervising Animation Director:
1984 Cream Lemon
1990 Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
1991 3x3 Eyes
1991 Detonator Orgun
1992 Bastard!!
1992 Yu Yu Hakusho
1994 Key the Metal Idol
1994 New Cutey Honey
1995 El-Hazard: The Magnificent World
1997 Photon: The Idiot Adventures
1998 Neo Ranga
1999 Hunter × Hunter
1999 Tenamonya Voyagers
2001 R.O.D: Read or Die
2002 Naruto
2002 RahXephon
2004 Bleach
2004 Kurau Phantom Memory
2004 Mars Daybreak
2004 Phantom: The Animation
2006 Ergo Proxy
2008 Birdy the Mighty: Decode
2008 Black Butler
2010 Night Raid 1931
2010 Seikimatsu Occult Academy
2012 Space Brothers
2015 Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation
2015 One-Punch Man
2017 ROBOMASTERS THE ANIMATED SERIES
2018 Golden Kamuy
2018 How Not to Summon a Demon Lord
2018 RErideD – Derrida, who leaps through time –
2019 Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files {Rail Zeppelin} Grace note
2021 86 EIGHTY-SIX
2021 LBX Girls
2021 Shadows House
2022 SPY x FAMILY
2022 Tokyo 24th Ward
2023 MASHLE: MAGIC AND MUSCLES
2023 UniteUp!
2024 Dragon Ball DAIMA
2024 Meiji Gekken: 1874
2024 Spice and Wolf: MERCHANT MEETS THE WISE WOLF
2024 WIND BREAKER
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