Takahiro Kagami
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| Gender: | Male |
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| Date of birth: | February 6, 1962 |
| Place of birth: | Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Location: | Japan |
Takahiro Kagami (加々美 高浩 Kagami Takahiro) is a Japanese key animator and character designer from Kanagawa Prefecture. He only served as the assistant animation director and key animator in Detective Conan anime for once.
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Biography
Kagami has worked at Studio Carpenter (スタジオカーペンター), Yumeta Company (ゆめ太カンパニー), and Studio Cockpit (スタジオコクピット) before, but he is now affiliated with Studio Sea Breeze (スタジオ潮風).
He is rather famous among the anime industry owing to his magnificient illustrations drawn for the anime Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (遊☆戯☆王 デュエルモンスターズ). Apart from that, he also served as the monster design and character design for that series. In addition, he is also active as the executive director of Death Note (DEATH NOTE), which received numerous fan appreciation.
He is the animator who emphasises the drawing of hand, and his forte is literally expressing and directing characters by hand. This is because he was astounded by Bruce Lee's hand movements in a movie he saw when he was a child, and ever since he implemented that while he was drawing characters.
Moreover, he manefists esteems towards the animator Shingo Araki (荒木 伸吾).
Works in Detective Conan
The Two-Hour Special of 2002 The Osaka Double Mystery - The Naniwa Swordsman and Toyotomi's Castle, was outsourced to the Yumeta Company. In which Kagami, who delegated the company at that time, served as the assistant animation director for that episode (the animation for the first case was directed by Maki Fujioka; the second case by Tomoyuki Matsumoto, for which Kagami did the last bit). Kagami was pretty well-known with regards to his own elaborate drawing techniques and obtained quite a lot of praise; this applies to all anime works he has been involved in.
He focuses more on the detail of the drawing, characters from his hands are usually delicate and realistic. His drawing style may share some similarities with Maki Fujioka - characters always have numerous shadows and highlights (in some abnormal regions). Furthermore, the highly proclaimed frame of Conan in that episode was drawn by him.
Other notable works
Anime
See also
References
- Twitter Account (Japanese)
- 加々美高浩 - Wikipedia (Japanese)
- 加々美高浩 - Atwiki (Japanese)
- IMDb
- Anime News Network
