Kazuo Komatsubara

Kazuo Komatsubara (小松原 一男 or 小松原 一夫, Komatsubara Kazuo, December 24, 1943 – March 24, 2000) was a Japanese animator, animation director and character designer born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

He worked as an independently contracted character designer for Toei Animation in the 1970s and 1980s.

Production (which he helped found along with Norio Shioyama, Kōichi Murata, and Kōshin Yonekawa).

For the 1987 OVA remake of the Devilman series, Komatsubara worked as both character designer and animation director.

At the same time, Shingo Araki was also a very popular character designer at Toei Animation, though he was beginning to do more work for Tokyo Movie Shinsha.