Yasuhiko Yoshikazu (安彦 良和) is a well-known man in the anime industry. He was born in Hokkaido in December, 1947. He dropped out of Hirosaki University and was hired by Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Productions in 1970 as an animator. He later went freelance and worked on various animation productions for film and television. In 1981 he won the Seiun Award in Art category. He began working as a manga artist in 1988. In 1992 he won the Nippon Manga-ka Kyokai (Japan Cartoonists Society) Award. He is also known as a novelist and science fiction illustrator. Some of his most notable works as character designer and director are Reideen the Brave, Combattler V, and Mobile Suit Gundam. Less well known is the fact that he was the original character designer for the Dirty Pair, long before their first anime or manga appearance, when he was illustrating the Takachiho Haruka short stories that became the 1980 fixup novel Great Adventures of the Dirty Pair. A scene from Cowboy Bebop (1998) Anime (アニメ) is Japanese animation, sometimes billed in the west under the portmanteau Japanimation. ... Hokkaidō (Japanese: 北海道, literal meaning: North Sea Route, Ainu: Mosir), formerly known as Ezo, is the second largest island of Japan. ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Osamu Tezuka and his creations commemorated on two stamps Phoenix clock designed by Tezuka, which stands in the Kyoto Station Dr. Osamu Tezuka (手塚 治虫 Tezuka Osamu, November 3, 1928 - February 9, 1989) was a Japanese manga artist and animator born in Ōsaka. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rurouni Kenshin manga, volume 1 (English version) Manga (漫画) is the Japanese word for comics; outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mobile Suit Gundam (Japanese: 機動戦士ガンダム) is a televised anime that was written and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino and is made up of 43 episodes that were aired in 1979. ... Dirty Pair is a manga and anime franchise made by the formerly popular manga_ka Haruka Takachiho. ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... A fixup is a novel created from short stories which may or may not have been initially related. ...

In recent years he just work as manga artist.

Yoshikazu signs his artwork as "YAS".

Yoshikazu animated Works

• Wandering Sun (Sasurai no Taiyo) (1971)
• Space Cruiser Yamato
• Brave Raideen
• Combattler-V
• Zambot 3
• Crusher Joe
• Mobile Suit Gundam
• Arion (1986 - Director, Character Designer)
• Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (Character Designer)
• Venus Wars (1989 - Original Story, Director, Character Designer)
• Mobile Suit Gundam F-91 (Character Designer)

Space Battleship Yamato (or, alternately, Space Cruiser Yamato) is the English title for the Japanese science fiction anime series 宇宙戦艦ヤマト, created by Leiji Matsumoto. ... Mobile Suit Gundam (Japanese: 機動戦士ガンダム) is a televised anime that was written and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino and is made up of 43 episodes that were aired in 1979. ... Arion on a sea horse, as pictured by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1855). ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... One-time rivals Amuro Ray and Char Aznable, new hero Kamille Bidan and the Zeta Gundam. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The anime movie, Mobile Suit Gundam F91, was Gundam creator Tomino Yoshiyukis attempt to launch a new Gundam saga, set thirty years after Chars Counterattack. ...

manga works

• Alion
• Kurudo no hoshi
• Nijiiro no Torotukii
• Anton
• Oudou no inu
• Namuji
• Zinmu
• C kouto
• Maraya
• Joan
• Jesus
• Waga nawa Nero
• Neo Devilman
• Dattan taihuun
• Nomi no Ou
• Kidousenshi Gundam orijin
• arekusandorosu