Youichi Kotabe

Youichi Kotabe

小田部羊一

While studying at Tokyo University of the Arts, Kotabe was impressed by the film The Tale of the White Serpent and the animator Yasuji Mori, and immediately applied to work at Toei Animation. His first project there was Magic Boy, the first ever anime to be released theatrically in North America. At the studio he also met Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, with whom he later left in order to work at A Pro, and they began work on an adaptation of Pippi Longstocking. That project was eventually canceled, and work began on the two-film series Panda! Go Panda!. Kotabe then worked as character…

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