# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katsuya-kondo
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:41:03.204Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katsuya-kondo"
name: "Katsuya Kondō"
slug: "katsuya-kondo"
description: "Katsuya Kondō  is a Japanese manga artist, character designer, animator and animation director. He is best known for his character design work on the Studio Ghibli films Kiki's Delivery Service and Ocean Waves, as well as the PlayStation game Jade Cocoon. His character designs are considered the epitome of the Studio Ghibli style."
tagline: "Japanese manga artist"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/su1v2UP7CbBORj8IeuoPIEdpQNL.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1963-06-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.11
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.53697466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0464891/"
    handle:    "nm0464891"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "كاتسويا كوندو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كاتسويا كوندو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuya_Kond%C5%8D"
    title: "Katsuya Kondō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%A7_%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%88"
    title: "کاتسویا کوندو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuya_Kond%C5%8D"
    title: "Katsuya Kondō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuya_Kond%C5%8D"
    title: "Katsuya Kondō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuya_Kond%C5%8D"
    title: "Katsuya Kondō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%BF%91%E8%97%A4%E5%8B%9D%E4%B9%9F"
    title: "近藤勝也"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuya_Kond%C5%8D"
    title: "Katsuya Kondō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%BF%91%E8%97%A4%E5%8B%9D%E4%B9%9F"
    title: "近藤勝也"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6378225"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/78345"
    title: "Katsuya Kondo"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump