Akio Kawamura

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Akio Kawamura

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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

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 entire 1998. This was because that Kawamura spent his whole working time of Detective Conan in 1998 to work 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. Since he went to serve as animation director, assistant animation director, layout, technical director and key animation works for the movies.

Until 2009, Kawamura was back in the anime production team, being the lead of BIG BANG, which he served as the animation director, 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

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

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

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