Masatomo Sudo

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Masatomo Sudo

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Gender: Male
Date of birth: January 28, 1961
Place of birth: Hokkaido, Japan
Location: Japan

Masatomo Sudo (須藤 昌朋 Sudō Masatomo?, born January 28, 1961 in Hokkaido) is a Japanese anime director, and character designer. He is best known for designing characters for the anime Detective Conan and working with the anime Lupin III. He works as character designer for Detective Conan anime, except from episodes 356 to 504, which was done by Mari Tominaga. He also works as character designer and chief animation director for the movies. Later, he also works as character design supervisor for Zero's Tea Time anime.

Biography

His first exposure to the industry was in 1980, when he did the in-between animation for Ashita no Joe 2 (あしたのジョー2). His first attempt of being an animation director was for PEACHBOY LEGEND (桃太郎伝説), in 1989. He then served as the chief animation director and character design for two movies of Lupin III (ルパン三世), from 1994 to 1995. He is currently a freelance animator, but formerly belonged to Studio AnnaPluck (スタジオあんなぷる), he mainly works for TMS Entertainment.

Sudo has worked for the Detective Conan anime since the beginning, 1996. He was the character design starting with episode 1. Later on, he did animation director work for some episodes. His works in Detective Conan anime decreased sharply in 1997, as he focused more on movies (Sudo has always served as the chief animation director and character design for the movies). But he still returned for some prominent episodes, such as Diplomat Murder Case, The Twenty Year Old Murderous Intent: The Symphony Serial Murder Case, The 3 "K"s of Osaka Case etc.

During the director Masato Sato era, the anime production undertook a big alteration. In which Sudo was transformed to work for the movies completely, accordingly, the Detective Conan anime character design was changed to Mari Tominaga. Sudo then became the anime character design again in 2008, working along with Junko Yamanaka, and later also with Seiji Muta and Nobuyuki Iwai respectively. Currently, he still serves as the animation supervisor or chief animation director for some significant anime episodes.

Works in Detective Conan

Anime

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Movies

Participation in: 27 movies

Movie Title Original airdate Role Note
1 The Time-Bombed Skyscraper April 19, 1997 Character design, Chief animation director
2 The Fourteenth Target April 18, 1998 Character design, Chief animation director, Key animation
3 The Last Wizard of the Century April 17, 1999 Character design, Chief animation director
4 Captured in Her Eyes April 22, 2000 Character design, Chief animation director
5 Countdown to Heaven April 21, 2001 Character design, Chief animation director
6 The Phantom of Baker Street April 20, 2002 Character design, Chief animation director
7 Crossroad in the Ancient Capital April 19, 2003 Character design, Chief animation director
8 Magician of the Silver Sky April 17, 2004 Character design, Chief animation director
9 Strategy Above the Depths April 9, 2005 Character design, Chief animation director
10 The Private Eyes' Requiem April 15, 2006 Character design, Chief animation director
11 Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure April 21, 2007 Character design, Chief animation director
12 Full Score of Fear April 19, 2008 Character design, Chief animation director
13 The Raven Chaser April 18, 2009 Character design, Chief animation director
14 The Lost Ship in the Sky April 17, 2010 Character design, Chief animation director
15 Quarter of Silence April 16, 2011 Character design, Chief animation director
16 The Eleventh Striker April 14, 2012 Character design, Chief animation director
17 Private Eye in the Distant Sea April 20, 2013 Character design, Chief animation director
Crossover Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie December 7, 2013 Character design, Chief animation director
18 Dimensional Sniper April 19, 2014 Character design, Chief animation director
19 Sunflowers of Inferno April 18, 2015 Character design, Chief animation director
20 The Darkest Nightmare April 16, 2016 Character design, Chief animation director
21 The Crimson Love Letter April 15, 2017 Character design, Chief animation director
22 Zero the Enforcer April 13, 2018 Character design, Chief animation director
23 The Fist of Blue Sapphire April 12, 2019 Character design, Chief animation director
24 The Scarlet Bullet April 16, 2021 Character design, Chief animation director
25 The Bride of Halloween April 15, 2022 Character design, Chief animation director
26 Black Iron Submarine April 14, 2023 Character design, Chief animation director

Participation in: 14 OVAs

Participation in: 4 specials

Other notable works

  • Hamtaro: Character Design
  • Hitohira: Character Design
  • KenIchi the Mightiest Disciple: Character Design, Animation Director (3 episodes)
  • Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking: Greatest Champion e no Michi: Character Design, Animation Director
  • Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: Character Design (Conan), Chief Animation Director
  • Lupin III: Bye Bye Liberty Crisis: Key Animation
  • Lupin III: Dragon of Doom: Character Design, Chief Animation Director
  • Lupin III: The Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure: Character Design, Chief Animation Director
  • Magnetic Rose: Key Animation
  • Roujin Z: Key Animation
  • Shinkai no Kantai - Submarine 707: Character Design
  • Shonan Junai-gumi!: Character Design
  • Space Adventure Cobra - The Movie: Animation
  • Tobé! Kujira no Peek: Key Animation
  • Tottoko Hamutarō: Ham Ham Ham - Jya! Maboroshi no Princess: Character Design
  • Tottoko Hamutaro: Ham Ham Paradi-chu! Hamutarō to Fushigi no Oni no Ehonto: Animation Director
  • Tottoko Hamutaro: Hamutaro no Otanjōbi - Mama o Tazunete Sanzen Techitechi: Character Design
  • Urban Square - Kohaku no Tsuigeki: Key Animation
  • You Are Umasou: Animation Director

See also

References

  1. Page partially or completely translated from the Chinese version of August 10th, 2023.
  2. 須藤昌朋 - Wikipedia (Japanese)
  3. Anime News Network