Masakazu Kawazoe

Visual Effects 1992–2026 (34 year career)

7.3 avg rating

Highest Rated

Energetic Explosion Ganbaruger

1992 · Key Animation

10.0

King of the Braves GaoGaiGar FINAL

2000 · Key Animation

9.2

Journal with Witch

2026 · Animation Director

8.6

Known For

Film

Hotarubi no Mori e

Key Animation

Film

Samurai Champloo

Key Animation

Film

Made in Abyss

Key Animation

Film

To Your Eternity

Animation Director

Film

Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Will of Fire

Effects Supervisor

Film

Ergo Proxy

Key Animation

Film

Wolf's Rain

Key Animation

Film

Durarara!!

Animation Director

Filmography

Crew (63)

Movies (20)

Natsume's Book of Friends: The Waking Rock and the Strange Visitor

2021

Key Animation

7.0

Crayon Shin-chan: Honeymoon Hurricane ~The Lost Hiroshi~

2019

Key Animation

7.0

City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes

2019

Key Animation

6.4

Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Ephemeral Bond

2018

Key Animation

7.4

Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Ephemeral Bond

2018

Layout Supervisor

7.4

Case Closed: The Crimson Love Letter

2017

Key Animation

6.5

Detective Conan: The Darkest Nightmare

2016

Key Animation

6.8

Detective Conan: Sunflowers of Inferno

2015

Key Animation

6.1

Detective Conan: Dimensional Sniper

Key Animation

Hotarubi no Mori e

Key Animation

Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Will of Fire

2009

Effects Supervisor

7.4

Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Pailsen Files The Movie

2009

Key Animation

7.5

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam - A New Translation III: Love is the Pulse of the Stars

2006

Key Animation

6.2

RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio

2003

Key Animation

5.8

KochiKame the Movie 2: UFO Attack! The Great Tornado Strategy!!

2003

Key Animation

6.5

Crush Gear Turbo The Movie: Kaiservern's Ultimate Challenge

2002

Key Animation

5.0

Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture

1994

Key Animation

7.3

Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Overture to a New War

1993

Key Animation

8.2

Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle

1993

Key Animation

6.8

Blue Memories: Boys, Colonizing Manchuria and Mongolia

1993

Key Animation

4.0

Television (43)

Journal with Witch

2026

Animation Director

8.6

Gundam Build Metaverse

2023

Key Animation

7.3

The Yuzuki Family's Four Sons

Layout Supervisor

To Your Eternity

Animation Director

To Your Eternity

Key Animation

Laid-Back Camp

Key Animation

Made in Abyss

Key Animation

91 Days

Animation Director

91 Days

Key Animation

Blood Blockade Battlefront

Key Animation

One Week Friends

Animation Director

Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199

Key Animation

Zetman

Key Animation

Durarara!!

Animation Director

Durarara!!

Key Animation

Princess Jellyfish

Key Animation

Model Suit Gunpla Builders Beginning G

2010

Key Animation

7.5

Natsume's Book of Friends

2008

Animation Director

8.2

Natsume's Book of Friends

2008

Key Animation

8.2

Natsume's Book of Friends

Layout Supervisor

Michiko & Hatchin

Key Animation

Spice and Wolf

Key Animation

Baccano!

Key Animation

Ergo Proxy

Key Animation

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED C.E. 73: Stargazer

Key Animation

Zegapain

Key Animation

Innocent Venus

Key Animation

Eureka Seven

Key Animation

Kamichu!

Key Animation

Samurai Champloo

Key Animation

Mars Daybreak

Key Animation

Kurau Phantom Memory

Key Animation

Wolf's Rain

Key Animation

Planetes

Key Animation

RahXephon

Key Animation

King of the Braves GaoGaiGar FINAL

2000

Key Animation

9.2

Hiwou War Chronicles

2000

Key Animation

The Big O

1999

Key Animation

7.2

Photon: The Idiot Adventures

Key Animation

Key the Metal Idol

Key Animation

Macross 7

Key Animation

The Irresponsible Captain Tylor

1993

Key Animation

7.6

Energetic Explosion Ganbaruger

1992

Key Animation

10.0