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    Kunio Okawara (大河原 邦男, Ōkawara Kunio, born December 26, 1947) is a mecha designer in the Japanese anime industry. He was born and currently lives in Inagi...
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  • Ōkawara, Okawara or Ookawara (written: 大河原) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Kunio Okawara (大河原 邦男, born 1947), Japanese...
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  • to Mobile Suit Gundam and Kunio Okawara was given Tomino's concept to shape into a finalized design for the anime. Okawara created multiple designs before...
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  • three films. The characters were designed by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, and Kunio Okawara was responsible for the mechanical designs, including the eponymous...
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  • Japanese writer Kunio Okawara (大河原 邦男, born 1947), Japanese mechanical designer Kunio Shibata (柴田 国男, born 1948), Japanese cross-country skier Kunio Shimizu (清水...
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  • widely known model is the MS-06 Zaku II series. It is redesigned by Kunio Okawara based upon the earlier draft by the series director Yoshiyuki Tomino...
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  • Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, while the series' mechanical designs are split among Kunio Okawara, Mamoru Nagano, and Kazumi Fujita. The series was originally aired on...
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  • and directed by Ryosuke Takahashi and featuring mechanical designs by Kunio Okawara. Following directly in the footsteps of Takahashi's previous series...
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  • re-teamed with character designer Yoshikazu Yasuhiko and mecha designer Kunio Okawara for the occasion. The film was first released in Japan on March 16,...
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  • created by Ryosuke Takahashi and Sunrise, featuring mechanical designs by Kunio Okawara. The series originally aired in Japan from April 1, 1983 to March 23...
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  • Suzuki handling series scripts, Takahiro Kimura as character designer, Kunio Okawara designing mechanical elements, Tomoaki Okada as art director, and Kohei...
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  • freedom that they crave. As in previous works, the mecha were created by Kunio Okawara with the mechanical animation director being Satoshi Shigeta and Fujita...
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  • Yoshihito Hishinuma while mecha designs were done by Atsushi Shigeta, Kunio Okawara, Syd Mead, Takumi Sakura. Shigemi Ikeda directed the art and Yota Tsuruoka...
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  • from Endless Waltz and other subsequent media, instead of the original Kunio Okawara designs featured in the anime. Vertical published English editions of...
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  • by Sunrise. Directed by Tetsurō Amino and featuring mecha designs by Kunio Okawara, it premiered on TV Tokyo on April 6, 1993, and ended its run on March...
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  • to be the renewal of the first Gundam; and the mecha are designed by Kunio Okawara, the mechanical designer for most of the Gundam series. Though the series...
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  • Shunichi Taniguchi and Kunio Suzuki acted as co-designers. Atsushi Shigeta was responsible for the character designs, with Kunio Ōkawara acting as designer...
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  • Zwei were created and directed by Masami Ōbari with mecha designs from Kunio Okawara. Both series were released in North America by ADV Films. After ADV...
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  • design. The White Base is designed with a three-plane view method by Kunio Okawara, which originated as a salvaged design from the anime Invincible Steel...
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  • Tomino's Mobile Suit Z Gundam, thinking that the mechanical designer was Kunio Okawara. However this was proven false as the true mecha designer was manga...
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  • designs was by Nobuyoshi Nishimura while mecha designs were done by Kunio Okawara & Junya Ishigaki. Masaru Sato directed the art and the music was composed...
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  • with both character and mecha designs done by Masayuki Hiraoka and Kunio Okawara respectively. It aired on Nagoya TV from February 3, 1990, to January...
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  • 「ガッチャマン」のメカは実にリアルだった…タツノコプロで発揮された大河原邦男の異彩" [Kunio Okawara exhibition (Part 2) The mecha in Gatchaman were truly realistic... Kunio Okawara's unique style demonstrated at...
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    Tokyo Verdy, men's football team NTV Beleza, women's football team Kunio Okawara, anime mechanical designer "Inagi city official statistics" (in Japanese)...
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  • the Brave series were those of prolific Sunrise mechanical designer Kunio Okawara. In most of the Brave series, there is a main hero robot (usually the...
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  • such as Gunpla. One of the "founding fathers" of real robot design was Kunio Okawara, who started out working on Gundam and continued on to other real robot...
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  • directed by Takeyuki Kanda. It included mechanical designs by artists Kunio Okawara (who previously designed mecha for the Mobile Suit Gundam anime series)...
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  • Akihiro Kaneyama, Masanori Yamada, Saburo Sakamoto. Mechanical design: Kunio Okawara and Yutaka Izubuchi. Opening: Gale Xabungle (疾風ザブングル, Shippū Zabunguru)...
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  • 2. He designed the Zeta Gundam, winning heated competition between Kunio Okawara, Mamoru Nagano and himself to design a finalized Zeta Gundam. Other...
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    Managed to invite Kōji Morimoto, Animation Director of Studio 4 °C and Kunio Okawara, mechanical designer of Gundam for the industry talk. Ichirou Mizuki...
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