Katsuya Kondō

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Katsuya Kondō (近藤勝也, Kondō Katsuya^?) is one of the top animators at Studio Ghibli. Born on June 2, 1963, he has been working on Ghibli movies since Laputa in 1986. He was the animation director for Kiki, Only Yesterday, and I Can Hear the Sea. He did the character designs for Kiki and I Can Hear the Sea, and also worked as a Key Animator on Mononoke Hime and Yamada-kun.

To make things more complicated, Yoshifumi Kondō was also an animation director on Kiki and Only Yesterday! They are not related, though.