Masakazu Katsura is a Japanese manga artist, known for several works of manga, including Wing-Man, Shadow Lady, DNA², Video Girl Ai, I"s, and Zetman. He has also worked as character designer for Iria: Zeiram the Animation, Tiger & Bunny and Garo -Guren no Tsuki-, as well as the video game Astral Chain.
Live action adaptation of Masakazu Katsura’s debut manga in commemoration of it's 40th anniversary.
Release Date: 2024-10-23
Department: Writing
Job: Comic Book
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 7
Whoever plays the video with Video Girl Mai, becomes Mai's master. To grant her master's wishes, Video Girl Mai carries her orders using her femme fatale charm. She fascinates people and trifles with them, but what is her real purpose?
Release Date: 2019-04-12
Department: Writing
Job: Comic Book
Episode Count: 12
Vote Count: 2
Seto Ichitaka, a second year high school student, has liked his classmate Yoshizuki Iori since the first year. Then the two of them become committee members of the welcome party for freshmen. When Ichitaka gradually opens up to Iori, his childhood friend Akiba Itsuki shows up all of a sudden.
Release Date: 2018-12-21
Department: Writing
Job: Comic Book
Episode Count: 13
Vote Count: 6
Set during the Heian Period, Kyo is a beautiful city that is proud of its glory. Two beautiful onmyouji meet, and the sad and short-lived beautiful cherry blossom starts to stir after 1000 years.
Release Date: 2018-10-06
Department: Visual Effects
Job: Character Designer
Vote Count: 3
The city state of Lisvalletta. Two suns rise above this city, and the people here live peaceful lives, but in the shadows, crime and illegal drugs run rampant. Among them is the dangerous, highly lethal drug "Anthem" which casts a dark shadow over the city. The SEVEN-O Special Crime Investigation Unit specializes in cracking down on Anthem. This unit operates in two-man "buddy" teams in what's called the "Double Decker System" to tackle the problem. Doug Billingham is a seasoned investigator, and joining him is Kirill Vrubel, whose abilities are mysterious and unknown.
Release Date: 2018-09-30
Department: Visual Effects
Job: Character Designer
Episode Count: 13
Vote Count: 9
Release Date: 2018-07-08
The story is set in 2018, 25 years after the original manga's "Video Girl Ai" arc ("Video Girl Len" arc was set seven years after the first arc). Sho Moteuchi (Shuhei Nomura) is a high school student. After his parents divorced, he begins to live with his uncle. At school, he develops feelings for his classmate Nanami, but Nanami likes his friend Tomoaki. One day, he finds an old broken video cassette recorder at his uncle’s house. Sho repairs the video cassette recorder and suddenly a video of girl plays. The girl in the video introduces herself as Video Girl Ai. The girl then steps out of the video and lives with Sho for the next 3 months.
Release Date: 2018-01-13
Department: Writing
Job: Comic Book
Episode Count: 12
Vote Count: 10
In a prosperous city named Russell City, an omen that threatens to shake its world begins to move within it. A man named Sword is the first to hear the first stirrings of the plot, and throws himself into a shadow war in order to expose it. His only clue is the key word "El Dorado." He meets Sophie, a woman searching for her missing older brother who has only left her with the same words: "El Dorado." With Sword having also lost his younger sister in the past, both are drawn together by the words, and work together to find out its meaning.
Release Date: 2017-10-06
Department: Visual Effects
Job: Key Animation
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 12
Heian-kyō, capital and the center of elegant, aristocratic culture, is heavily guarded by a spiritual force field -- or so it seems. In reality, onmyōji (court magi who create the spiritual force field) can only defend the palace located in the northern part of the city; in downtown, monsters known as "horror" that feast upon human souls roam after sunset. There are, however, a group of heroes protecting commoners from "horrors" in darkness.
Release Date: 2015-10-10
Department: Visual Effects
Job: Character Designer
Episode Count: 24
Vote Count: 7
The heroes of 'Tiger & Bunny' are back in an all-new feature-length film! Picking up after the events of the Maverick incident, Kotetsu T. Kaburagi, a.k.k Wild Tiger, and Barnaby Brooks Jr. resume their careers as heroes fighting crime in Hero TV's Second League. Their partnership comes to a sudden end when Apollon Media's new owner Mark Schneider fires Kotetsu and moves Barnaby back into the First League, pairing him up with Golden Ryan, a new hero with awesome powers and a huge ego to match. When the heroes are sent to investigate a string of strange incidents tied closely to the city's Goddess Legend, they discover three super powered NEXTs plotting to bring terror and destruction to Stern Bild. With the lives of millions hanging in the balance, Barnaby and Goden Ryan must overcome their differences to contain the approaching doom, while a jobless Kotetsu's resolve as a hero is put to the test as he struggles to help his fellow heroes from the sidelines.
Release Date: 2014-02-08
Department: Visual Effects
Job: Character Designer
Vote Count: 16
Set on an alternative Earth, Superheroes are celebrities and a high rating TV show rates their achievements, awarding them points until an annual King of Heroes is crowned. Old-school hero Wild Tiger is assigned a new partner with very different views on the heroes role in society but soon a vigilante criminal presents them with a serious problem.
Release Date: 2012-09-22
Department: Visual Effects
Job: Character Designer
Vote Count: 18
The story starts off with a face-off between two rival heroes, ZET and ALPHAS, and then traces their origins - Jin Kanzaki, a young man with the ability to transform into a superhuman being known as ZET, and Kouga Amagi, a young man with a strong sense of justice who uses technology to fight as ALPHAS. The fates of these two men and those around them intertwine as they fight to protect mankind and destroy monstrous abominations known as Players.
Release Date: 2012-04-03
Department: Writing
Job: Comic Book
Episode Count: 13
Vote Count: 20
In an alternate New York City protected by a band of superheroes called NEXT, veteran Wild Tiger is forced to team up with rookie Barnaby Brooks Jr.
Release Date: 2011-04-03
Department: Visual Effects
Job: Character Designer
Episode Count: 50
Vote Count: 45
Seto Ichitaka has a crush on Yoshizuki Iori, a girl in his class who has become so popular she now has her own fan club at school. But only a miracle could make him be with her, since the day he first saw Iori-chan, Ichitaka has been too shy to even talk to her. This miracle happened and now he and Iori are working together on the Freshmen Welcoming Party. It seems that things start to look bright for Seto, but then a special childhood friend is coming for a visit...
Release Date: 2005-12-09
Department: Writing
Job: Comic Book
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 5
The Makai fight a secret war against the demon forces known as Horrors, evil creatures that manifest themselves through darkness to devour Humanity. On the frontlines are the Makai Knights, given the task of watching over a district and eliminating any Horrors that manifest there. GARO follows the tales of the Knights bearing the title of ‘Golden Knight Garo’, and their duty to vanquish the Horrors and protect Humanity from the darkness.
Release Date: 2005-10-07
Character: Sketch Artist
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 27
Release Date: 2002-12-09
Department: Writing
Job: Comic Book
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 1
* Based on the popular manga by Katsura Masakazu. Itsuki, a childhood friend of Ichitaka, who aimed at becoming a molding artist and went to America, comes back to Japan to meet up with an old childhood friend of hers and Ichitaka's. Nearby Iori is having a photoshoot and Ichitaka is riding his bike. Soon, the girls end up in a pinch... Note: The anime is a sidestory from the manga; it's a good idea to read the manga before watching the anime but it isn't necessary to understand the "plot". (Source: AniDB)
Release Date: 2002-12-09
Department: Writing
Job: Original Story
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 1
Karin, a DNA operator from the future, is on a mission to change the course of History by stopping Junta Momonari from becoming the Mega-Playboy who fathered 100 children and led to the overpopulation of the world. But Junta is no playboy; in fact he is allergic to girls. But when Karin shoots him with the wrong DNA-altering bullet, he starts sporadically becoming the Mega-Playboy capable of charming any woman. Karin must try to restore the situation to normal before the change to Mega-Playboy becomes irreversible.
Release Date: 1994-10-07
Department: Writing
Job: Comic Book
Episode Count: 12
Vote Count: 72
Iria is the story of a girl and the Alien being she loves to hate. The series begins with her brother, Gren, taking a job. He is a bounty hunter, and one well known for his incredible skill. Iria, being a skilled apprentice bounty hunter herself, tags along. What is the job, one might ask. It is to find out what has happened to the crew and cargo of a Space Station. Needless to say, nothing is as it seems, and the war between Iria and Zeiram begins in earnest.
Release Date: 1994-06-23
Department: Visual Effects
Job: Character Designer
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 10
High-school student Yota Moteuchi is so unpopular that his classmates have given him the nickname "Dateless." So it's no surprise when the love of his life, Moemi, is not interested in Yota but instead is in love with Yota's best friend, Takashi. Yota turns to a video rental shop for comfort, but little did he suspect that the shop was magical and that the cute girl on his rented tape would pop out of the television and try to fix his ruined love life!
Release Date: 1992-03-27
Department: Art
Job: Original Series Design
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 23
Teppei and Kamiya, two average joes working in the electronic services industry, stumble upon the intergalactic bounty-hunter Ilia, and her partner, the artificial intelligence named Bob. Both men are accidentally transported to the Zone, a virtual reality in which Bob has trapped Ilia's latest prey, a biological weapon named Zeram. The Earth natives must both survive the experience and help Ilia capture Zeram before the Zone disappears around them.
Release Date: 1991-12-21
Character: Passerby
Vote Count: 29
Yota is a total loser with girls, one day after the love of his life, Moremi, confesses her love to his best friend, he comes across a video store. He finds a video and plays it on his broken VCR, bringing Ai Amano to life. She tries to help him win Moemi's heart, but falls in love with him instead.
Release Date: 1991-06-29
Department: Writing
Job: Comic Book
Vote Count: 2
Kenta is a high school student obsessed with superheroes and anime, often seen running around in a costume of his own design called "Wingman." One day as Kenta is walking to school, a girl from another world drops out of the sky. Princess Aoi escaped the villain Rimeru with the artifact known as the "Dream Note" which enables its possessor to create anything they desire by drawing or writing within its pages. Kenta soon discovers that his designs and notes on Wingman become reality and he in turn becomes his own creation.
Release Date: 1984-02-07
Department: Writing
Job: Comic Book
Episode Count: 47
Vote Count: 5