# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yoichi-kotabe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:11:35.007Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yoichi-kotabe"
name: "Yōichi Kotabe"
slug: "yoichi-kotabe"
description: "Yōichi Kotabe  is a Japanese animator and character designer, best known for his work on classic anime of the 1960s and 1970s, the Super Mario video game series, and the Pokémon franchise in television and film. He was an employee at Nintendo for two decades doing illustrations, character designs, and supervision from 1985 to 2007. After that, he began to work as a freelancer for the anime and video game industry, including for Nintendo again."
tagline: "Japanese illustrator (born 1936)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yoichi_Kotabe.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1936-09-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.58
  momentum:             6.732824427480915
  historical:           12.11124
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0467605/"
    handle:    "nm0467605"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A"
    title: "يويشي كوتابي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "یۆیچی کۆتابێ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dichi_Kotabe"
    title: "Yōichi Kotabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dichi_Kotabe"
    title: "Yōichi Kotabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dichi_Kotabe"
    title: "Yōichi Kotabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%86%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%87"
    title: "یوایچی کوتابه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dichi_Kotabe"
    title: "Yōichi Kotabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%8Dichi_Kotabe"
    title: "Yōichi Kotabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E7%94%B0%E9%83%A8%E7%BE%8A%E4%B8%80"
    title: "小田部羊一"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BD%94%ED%83%80%EB%B2%A0_%EC%9A%94%EC%9D%B4%EC%B9%98"
    title: "코타베 요이치"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoichi_Kotabe"
    title: "Yoichi Kotabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E7%94%B0%E9%83%A8%E7%BE%8A%E4%B8%80"
    title: "小田部羊一"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1850736"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1168443"
    title: "Yoichi Kotabe"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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