Akio Kawamura

Akio Kawamura
Profile
Gender:	Male
Date of birth:	unknown
Place of birth:	Japan
Location:	Japan
Nicknames:	かわむらあきお
Please be reminded that although he is constantly working for episodes that are done by the BIG BANG studio, Kawamura and BIG BANG are merely partnerships, he does not belong to the studio.

Akio Kawamura (河村 明夫 ,Kawamura Akio) is a Japanese animation producer, sub-character designer. He does key animation, sub-character designing, animation director, storyboard, episode director, layout works in Detective Conan anime and movies. He is now credited as "かわむらあきお".

Works in Detective Conan

• See Animation directed by Akio Kawamura

Kawamura was originally affiliated with Axel Corporation (アクセル), but he quit the studio after a few years, and currently a freelance animator.

Kawamura joined the production of the Detective Conan anime exceedingly early, starting with the third episode An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case. He is technically considered as the second animation director who worked in the Detective Conan anime, after Masatomo Sudo. After that, he constantly did animation director work in the anime, meanwhile served as the storyboard and sub-character designer for some episodes as well. However, Kawamura was absent in the anime production during the 2nd half of 1998 due to him working on the two hour special The Girl from the Black Organization and the University Professor Murder Case that was about to air in 1999. He was responsible for some famous scenes in that episode, for example, the scenario which Haibara deliberately scared Conan was from his hands. After working on this episode, Kawamura quit the anime production team. He did not involve in the anime at all for ten years. However, he still went to serve as animation director, assistant animation director, layout, technical director and key animation works for the movies.

In 2009, Kawamura returned to the anime production team, and served as the animation director in the episodes outsourced to BIG BANG, until present. From this stinct onwards, his name crediting had changed from the full kanji "河村明夫" to full kana "かわむらあきお".

Movies

Participation in: 20 movies

• The Time-Bombed Skyscraper (Movie 1): Animation director, Sub-character design
• The Fourteenth Target (Movie 2): Layout, Key animation
• Countdown to Heaven (Movie 5): Animation director
• The Phantom of Baker Street (Movie 6): Layout
• Magician of the Silver Sky (Movie 8): Key animation
• Strategy Above the Depths (Movie 9): Assistant animation director
• The Private Eyes' Requiem (Movie 10): Assistant animation director
• Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure (Movie 11): Technical director
• Full Score of Fear (Movie 12): Assistant animation director
• The Raven Chaser (Movie 13): Assistant animation director
• The Lost Ship in the Sky (Movie 14): Key animation
• Quarter of Silence (Movie 15): Animation director
• The Eleventh Striker (Movie 16): Animation director
• Private Eye in the Distant Sea (Movie 17): Animation director
• Dimensional Sniper (Movie 18): Animation director
• Sunflowers of Inferno (Movie 19): Animation director
• The Darkest Nightmare (Movie 20): Assistant animation director
• The Crimson Love Letter (Movie 21): Key animation
• The Scarlet Bullet (Movie 24): Animation director
• The Bride of Halloween (Movie 25): Animation director

Note: Also served as the animation director for TV Special The Disappearance of Conan Edogawa: The Worst Two Days in History

Games

Participation in: 1 game

• Detective Conan: The Greatest Partner (2002): Storyboard, Technical director, Sub-character design

Other notable works

Anime

• Kenyuu Densetsu Yaiba: Animation Director, Key Animation
• Aoashi: Animation Director, Assistant Animation Director
• Bleach: Storyboard, Animation Director, Key Animation
• Lupin III: Dragon of Doom: Key Animation
• Lupin III: The Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure: Key Animation
• Red Baron: Animation Director, Mecha design, Key Animation
• Tantei Gakuen Q: Animation Director, Key Animation
• Tenshi na Konamaiki: Storyboard, Episode Director, Animation Director, Key Animation
• Tokyo Mew Mew: Animation Director, Key Animation

Movies

• Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody (movie 1): Assistant Animation Director
• Bleach the Movie: Fade to Black (movie 3) : Animation Director
• Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion (movie 2) : Animation Director, Key Animation

See also

• BIG BANG

References

1. かわむらあきお - Wikipedia (Japanese)
2. かわむらあきお - Atwiki (Japanese)
3. Anime News Network