Yōichi Kotabe (小田部 羊一, Kotabe Yōichi, born September 15, 1936) is a Japanese animator and character designer. He has worked on several anime films from...

Yōichi, Yoichi, Youichi or Yohichi is a masculine Japanese given name. Yōichi can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Some examples:...

features contributions by numerous other anime filmmakers, including Yoichi Kotabe (character design, animation director), Toyoo Ashida (co-character design...

which was renamed Alakazam the Great during the film's Ameri period. Yōichi Kotabe based Bowser's final design on the Chinese softshell turtle, which he...

been added. According to an interview, Japanese character designer Yōichi Kotabe, who worked on redesigning characters in Super Mario Bros. (1985), revealed...

was drawn by Miyamoto, who later asked Yōichi Kotabe to redraw Peach with his instructions. He had asked Kotabe to draw her eyes to be "a little cat-like"...

game was animated by co-director Yoshiaki Koizumi and Satoru Takiwaza. Yōichi Kotabe, illustrator and character designer for the Mario series, made a 3D...

Kong (1981) Created by Shigeru Miyamoto Designed by Shigeru Miyamoto Yōichi Kotabe Shigefumi Hino Portrayed by Sally Klein (Donkey Kong ColecoVision commercial)...

animators of the time: Yasuo Ōtsuka, Reiko Okuyama, Sadao Kikuchi, Yōichi Kotabe, Akemi Ōta, Hayao Miyazaki, and Akira Daikubara, supervised by animation...

Producer(s) Shigeru Miyamoto Programmer(s) Masato Kimura Artist(s) Yōichi Kotabe Mie Yoshimura Yoshiaki Koizumi Composer(s) Soyo Oka Series Mario Kart...