Masakazu Yamazaki

Masakazu Yamazaki
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Gender:	Male
Date of birth:	unknown
Place of birth:	Japan
Location:	Japan

Masakazu Yamazaki (山崎 正和 ,Yamazaki Masakazu) is a Japanese animator. He does key animation, animation director, assistant animation director, and design works in Detective Conan anime and movies. He was formerly affiliated with Studio Wanpack, and became a freelance animator when the studio got disbanded.

Works in Detective Conan

• See Animation directed by Masakazu Yamazaki

Yamazaki's first involvement in the Detective Conan anime was in 2004, starting with the 1st part of Love, Ghosts, and World Heritage. In 2009, he began to serve as a regualr key animator and animation director for Studio Wanpack. He also did the episode director work regularly starting with the 1st part of The Revolving Sushi Mystery, and stepped down after he did episode director for The Devil Hidden in the Tennis Court and only did some key animation works for the studio irregularly afterwards.

From the 1st part of The Jet-Black Mystery Train onwards, Yamazaki participated the Detective Conan anime production under the name of a freelance animator solely.

Number of episodes directed: 10 (10 episodes)

• The Revolving Sushi Mystery (Episodes 549 only)
• Intersection of Fear (Episode 556)
• Rainbow Color Kidnapping (Episode 562)
• Murderous Intent Raining on an Outdoor Spa (Episode 567)
• Battle of the Haunted Warehouse's Treasure (Episodes 572 only)
• The Truth Lit Up By the Fireflies (Episode 577)
• Kobayashi-sensei's Love (Episodes 583 only)
• The House with the Aquarium (Episode 591)
• The Alibi of the Fall (Episode 596)
• The Devil Hidden in the Tennis Court (Episode 602)

Movies

Participation in: 4 movies

• The Fist of Blue Sapphire (Movie 23): Key animation
• The Scarlet Bullet (Movie 24): Key animation
• The Bride of Halloween (Movie 25): Key animation
• Black Iron Submarine (Movie 26): Key animation

Note: also did key animation for TV Special Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small

Other notable works

Anime

• Detective Conan: Zero's Tea Time: Key Animation
• Magic Kaito: Kid the Phantom Thief: Key Animation
• Agatha Christie no Meitantei Poirot to Marple: Animation Director
• Food Wars! The Third Plate: Chief Animation Director, Animation Director, Assistant Animation Director, Key Animation
• In Search of the Lost Future: Chief Animation Director, Animation Director, Main Animator
• Naruto: Key Animation

See also

• Studio Wanpack

References

1. 山崎正和 - Atwiki (Japanese)
2. Anime News Network