Kazuko Tadano


Kazuko Tadano is a Japanese character designer, animator, illustrator and animation director. She’s mostly known for her design work for the first two seasons of the 1990s Sailor Moon anime.

Career

Tadano first worked on as an animation director for an episode of 1980s Saint Seiya anime. She then became a character designer for Dancouga – Super Beast Machine God, and Crystal Triangle.
In the 1990s, after working on various episodes for Goldfish Warning!, she the became a character designer for the first two seasons of the Sailor Moon TV series, she provided some animation direction for many episodes. She also provided the designs for its first movie, .
From the late 1990s to 2000s, after Sailor Moon, she designed the characters in Wedding Peach, Petite Princess Yucie, Jūsō Kikō Dancouga Nova, Valkyria Chronicles 3: An Unrecorded Chronicle, and Nobunagun.
On June of 2018, it was announced that Tadano was chosen as a character designer for Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal: The Movie , a two-part anime film project that takes place as a "fourth season" of the Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal anime series, adapting the Dream arc of the original manga. She has stated that the designs for the films are "reminiscent of the past while bringing with them a modern nuance, all while being faithful to Ms. Takeuchi’s original imagery".
On December 2019, both Tadano and her husband, Hiromi Matsushita, were chosen as character designers for the upcoming sixth spin-off of the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series, Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens.

Personal Life

She married Hiromi Matsushita, who was also an animation director on Sailor Moon.
Her favorite hobbies are going to karaoke, traveling, and her dislikes are exercising.

Works