Osamu Kobayashi

Given name: 治

Family name: 小林

Alternate names: コバヤシオサム

Birthday: Jan 10, 1964

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A Japanese animator, illustrator, mechanic designer, and animation director. Best known as the director of BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad and Paradise Kiss.

Not to be confused with the two other Osamu Kobayashi's.

His twitter account: https://twitter.com/osamukoba

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	Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann add Storyboard (ep 4)
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karkki_ | Mar 25, 11:23 PM

oh yeah baby

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Jans6ever | Feb 28, 9:33 PM

Very interesting, because Dororo 15 was the best episode of the series, superbly directed (save the fight scene i guess). I thought i recognized his style and inmediatly looked it up and yup, it was him. I was never a fan of his TTGL episode, but i have newfond respect for his skills now.

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ririn2 | Dec 30, 2019 5:34 PM

i once really got interested in looking him up when i watched the first ending theme of dororo, the style kind-of reminded me of the one used in the 4th ttgl episode. and yeah, that episode was a weird one, i agree. a few days ago i got interested in reading beck and decided to check out a few episodes of the anime and there i too recognized his style.

i don't think he deserves such negative criticism since his style is a very unique one. i actually adore his art style in general but i as well just can't get to like his directing, the pacing often feels weird and somewhat uneasy. that is one of the reasons why i decided to not continue the beck adaptation, sadly.

but in the end, he should keep being weird. that comment on here made me smile.

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