Kunio Okawara
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Kunio Okawara (大河原 邦男 Okawara Kunio, born December 26, 1947) is a mechanical designer in the anime industry, notable as being the first person to be credited as such. Most famous for creating the designs for the original Mobile Suit Gundam, it's later installments, and the Brave series, he's worked on more mecha anime than we can list here!
He was brought on by Takara during the mid-to-late 1980s to contribute to Transformers designs
Transformers Kunio Okawara has had a hand in designing
Headmasters
Victory
- Star Saber (with Takashi Kunihiro)
Trivia
- His mechanical designs have been the focus of multiple exhibitions in Japan. Among the guests of "Mechanic Designer Okawara Kunio Exhibition" in 2015 were Hisashi Yuki and Munetaka Abe, who discussed Okawara's contributions to Brave, as well as the creation of Masterpiece Star Saber. [1]
