Katsuyoshi Yatabe

Katsuyoshi Yatabe (谷田部 勝義, Yatabe Katsuyoshi, born July 11, 1956) is a Japanese screenwriter, anime director and sound director born in Tokyo. He is most well known for making the first shotacon anime adaptions.

He has worked on:

• Anime Ganbare Goemon (TV): Director
• Armored Trooper Votoms: The Last Red Shoulder (OVA): Storyboard
• Boku no Pico (OVA): Director
• Brave Exkaiser (TV): Director, Storyboard (eps 26, 41)
• Dinosaur King (TV): Director
• Burn Up Scramble (TV): Storyboard (ep 3), Episode Director (eps 3,7,11)
• Dirty Pair (OVA): Director, Storyboard (eps 6, 9), Episode Director (ep 6)
• F (TV): Episode Director
• Gakuen Alice (TV): Storyboard, Episode Director
• Grappler Baki Maximum Tournament (TV): Series director
• Gundress (movie): Director
• Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora (TV) : Episode Director
• Hikaru no Go (TV): Episode Director (Ep 21, 29, 37, 53, 63, 73), Art (Ep 73)
• Kakyuusei 2: Anthology (OVA): Director, Storyboard
• Keraku-no-oh (OVA): Director
• Kon'nichiwa Anne: Before Green Gables (TV): Director, Storyboard (eps 1, 39)
• Mobile Suit Gundam Seed (TV): Unit Director
• Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny (TV): Storyboard, Episode Director
• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray (OVA Promo): Director, Storyboard
• Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (TV): Storyboard
• Muka Muka Paradise (TV): Director
• Oishinbo (TV): Storyboard
• Shin Hakkenden (TV): Series director
• Space Runaway Ideon (TV): Episode Director
• Strawberry Panic! (TV): Episode Director (ep 15)
• Tantei Gakuen Q (TV): Storyboard, Episode Director
• The Brave Fighter of Legend Da-Garn (TV): Director
• The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird (TV): Director
• The New Adventures of Gigantor (TV): Episode Director (eps 35, 42, 47)