Staff
Hajime Watanabe
渡辺はじめ
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Biography
Also known as
- 渡辺ハジメ
- 渡辺一
- Occupations
- Animator, Designer
- Years active
- 1977–present
Currently freelance. Watanabe started his career as an animator at Tsuchida Production, which he left in July 1986 after the studio's bankruptcy. He then joined Studio Gallop, where he was responsible for the character designs and chief animation direction for the studio's mahou shoujo titles such as Hime-chan no Ribbon, which was his debut as a character designer, Akazukin Chacha and Nurse Angel Ririka SOS as well as the hit TV anime series Kodomo no Omocha.
Frequent collaborator with Akitarou Daichi.
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Staff credits (3 titles in the catalog)
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Captain Tsubasa: Junior Youth Arc
Fall 2023
- Character Design
- Chief Animation Director
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Captain Tsubasa (2018)
Spring 2018
- Character Design
- Chief Animation Director
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Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran
Winter 2000
- Character Design


