Yoichi Kotabe is a Japanese mangaka and animator that worked with Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki. Mangaka (漫画家) is the Japanese word for a comic artist/cartoonist. ... Animation is the technique in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model unit (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result with a... Isao Takahata (高畑 勲 Takahata Isao) (born October 29, 1935) is one of the most famous directors of anime, or Japanese animated films. ... Animator Hayao Miyazaki Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎 駿 Miyazaki Hayao) (born January 5, 1941) is one of the most famous and respected creators of Anime, or Japanese animated films. ...

They worked together on Horus: Prince of the Sun, and started together a company in which they made new style of cartoons. 'Panda Ko Panda' was the first one. Horus: Prince of the Sun (太陽の王子ホルスの大冒険 Taiyo no oji: Horusu no daiboken) was a Japanese anime film released in 1968 by Toei Animation. ...

Later Yoichi Kotabe went to Nintendo, and worked on the Pokemon animated series and video games. Nintendo (Japanese: 任天堂; Ninten is roughly translated as leave luck to heaven or in heavens hands. ... Pikachu is the most well-known Pokémon. ...