History Creator / TadayoshiYamamuro

** Characters standing with one fist raised (usually also straight-on). This is also present in a lot of his promotional artwork.

*** ''Anime/DragonBallHeroesPrisonPlanet'' (2018)

After this, Yamamuro would handle every single ''Dragon Ball Z'' film from this point onward, and many of his movie designs were used for the ''Majin Buu saga'' of the ''Z'' anime. He also became the promo-artist for this era, being atop of his game with AwesomeArt, and being responsible for many highly regarded episodes. After ''Z'', Yamamuro would leave Shindo Productions to become an in-house animator at Toei Animation.

** Characters or objects being framed through the legs of another character, often an adversary. [[https://imgur.com/gallery/Vp5HuDN/comment/1446035993 A compillation can be seen here.]]

** Characters or objects being framed through the legs of another character, often an adversary. [[https://imgur.com/a/Vp5HuDN A compillation can be seen here.]]

** Characters or objects being framed through the legs of another character, often an adversary.

In his youth, Yamamuro studied martial arts in a Shaolin temple, and then became an animator in Shindo Productions in1984 in the first animated adaptation of ''Manga/DrSlump''. He worked with ''Dragon Ball'' since its early animated days as a Key Animator, and it wasn't until episode 122 where he was promoted to Animation Supervisor, which allowed fans to see a glance of Yamamuro's style unfiltered, which were close to Character Designer Minoru Maeda's own episodes. As he kept working, his style evolved far away from Maeda's designs, with a cleaner look for its time compared with other supervisors, this brought the attention of Creator/ToeiAnimation's higher ups which allowed him to work as the Animation Supervisor of ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan Broly - The legendary Super Saiyan]]'', but also as a Character Designer, adapting Toriyama's contributions.

When the series died after ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', Yamamuro became a Character Designer and Animation Supervisor for other projects, but he was still the de-facto promo artist for ''Dragon Ball'', working in the many videogames or supervising their openings. ''Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF'' was the first time he ever storyboarded an entire film.

Tadayoshi Yamamuro (Born 1960, Tokyo) is an animator and character designer. Alongside Creator/AkiraToriyama and Creator/MasakoNozawa, he is considered one of the ''faces'' of Franchise/DragonBall, as his style was used for ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' starting from the ''Androids saga'' and the ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan Broly - The legendary Super Saiyan]]'' film.

Despite being with the series for decades, he was replaced for the ''Anime/DragonBallSuper2018'' movie by Naohiro Shintani.

** straight-on closeups of characters faces taking up about half the frame,
** characters standing with one fist raised (usually also straight-on). This is also present in a lot of his promotional artwork.
** characters or objects being framed through the legs of another character, often an adversary.

* SignatureShot: As a storyboard artist, Yamamuro is known for some specific sets of recurring shots that pervade his dragon ball work, such as;

* SignatureShot: As a storyboard artist, Yamamuro is known for having some specific kind of shots that get repeated a lot in his work in ''Dragon Ball''.
** Flat shots of the characters frontal faces taking half the screen.
** The characters will be standing with their fist up. This is also present in a lot of his cover works.
** Framing objects or characters between the open legs of another character also tend to be repeated a lot.

** The frame of the characters between the open legs of another character also tend to be repeated a lot.

** The characters will be standing with their fist up. This is also present in a lot of his cover works.

!! Yamamuro is credited as a Character Designer in the following works:

* ''Anime/MarvelDiskWarsTheAvengers'' (2014)

* ''Anime/DrSlump'' (1997)

*** ''Anime/DragonBallHeroesPrisonPlanet'' (2018)

** ''Anime/DragonBallResurrectionF'' (2015)

* ''Franchise/DragonBall''

Tadayoshi Yamamuro (Born 1960, Tokyo) is an animator and character designer. Alongside Creator/AkiraToriyama and Creator/MasakoNozawa, he is considered one of the ''faces'' of Franchise/DragonBall, as his style was used for ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' starting from the ''Androids saga'' and the ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan'' Broly - The legendary Super Saiyan]] film.

In his youth, Yamamuro studied martial arts in a Shaolin temple, and then became an animator in Shindo Productions in1984 in the first animated adaptation of ''Manga/DrSlump''. He worked with ''Dragon Ball'' since its early animated days as a Key Animator, and it wasn't until episode 122 where he was promoted to Animation Supervisor, which allowed fans to see a glance of Yamamuro's style unfiltered, which were close to Character Designer Minoru Maeda's own episodes. As he kept working, his style evolved far away from Maeda's designs, with a cleaner look for its time compared with other supervisors, this brought the attention of Creator/ToeiAnimation's higher ups which allowed him to work as the Animation Supervisor of ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan'' Broly - The legendary Super Saiyan]], but also as a Character Designer, adapting Toriyama's contributions.

Tadayoshi Yamamuro (Born 1960, Tokyo) is an animator and character designer. Alongside Creator/AkiraToriyama and Creator/MasakoNozawa, he is considered one of the ''faces'' of Franchise/DragonBall, as his style was used for ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' starting from the ''Androids saga'' and the ''Legendary Super Saiyan'' film.

In his youth, Yamamuro studied martial arts in a Shaolin temple, and then became an animator in Shindo Productions in1984 in the first animated adaptation of ''Manga/DrSlump''. He worked with ''Dragon Ball'' since its early animated days as a Key Animator, and it wasn't until episode 122 where he was promoted to Animation Supervisor, which allowed fans to see a glance of Yamamuro's style unfiltered, which were close to Character Designer Minoru Maeda's own episodes. As he kept working, his style evolved far away from Maeda's designs, with a cleaner look for its time compared with other supervisors, this brought the attention of Creator/ToeiAnimation's higher ups which allowed him to work as the Animation Supervisor of ''Broly The Legendary Super Saiyan'', but also as a Character Designer, adapting Toriyama's contributions.

When the series died after ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', Yamamuro became a Character Designer and Animation Supervisor for other projects, but he was still the de-facto promo artist for ''Dragon Ball'', working in the many videogames or supervising their openings. ''Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionOfF'' was the first time he ever storyboarded an entire film.

Tadayoshi Yamamuro was beloved in his heyday, but the new millenium forward, has been a mixed bag with many, fans and animators alike. Many critized how his character designs look more like action figures with unnecesary highlights, amking them hard to animate.

When the series died after ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', Yamamuro became a Character Designer and Animation Supervisor for other projects, but he was still the de-facto promo artist for ''Dragon Ball'', working in the many videogames or supervising their openings.

In his youth, Yamamuro studied martial arts in a Shaolin temple, and then became an animator in Shindo Productions in1984 in the first animated adaptation of ''Manga/DrSlump''. He worked with ''Dragon Ball'' since its early animated days as a Key Animator, and it wasn't until episode 122 where he was promoted to Animation Supervisor, which allowed fans to see a glance of Yamamuro's style unfiltered, which were close to Character Designer Minoru Maeda's own episodes. As he kept working, his style evolved far away from Maeda's designs, with a cleaner look for its time compared with other supervisors, this brought the attention of Creator/ToeiAnimation's higher ups which allowed him to work as the Animation Supervisor of ''Broly The Legendary Super Saiyan', but also as a Character Designer, adapting Toriyama's contributions.

After this, Yamamuro would handle every single ''Dragon Ball Z'' film from this point onward, and many of his movie designs were used for the ''Majin Buu saga'' of the ''Z'' anime. He also became the promo-artist for this era, being atop of his game with AwesomeArt, and being responsible for many highly regarded episodes. After ''Z'', Yamamuro would leave Shindo Productions to become an in-house animator at Toei Animation.

In his youth, Yamamuro studied martial arts in a Shaolin temple, and then became an animator in Shindo Productions 1984 in the first animated adaptation of ''Manga/DrSlump''. He worked with ''Dragon Ball'' since its early animated days as a Key Animator, and it wasn't until episode 122 where he was promoted to Animation Supervisor, which allowed fans to see a glance of Yamamuro's style unfiltered, which were close to Character Designer Minoru Maeda's own episodes. As he kept working, his style evolved far away from Maeda's designs, with a cleaner look for its time compared with other supervisors, this brought the attention of Creator/ToeiAnimation's higher ups which allowed him to work as the Animation Supervisor of ''Broly The Legendary Super Saiyan', but also as a Character Designer, adapting Toriyama's contributions.

Tadayoshi Yamamuro (Born 1960, Tokyo) is an animator and character designer. Alongside Creator/AkiraToriyama and Creator/MasakoNozawa, he is considered one of the ''faces'' of Franchise/DragonBall, as his style was used for ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' starting the from the ''Androids saga'' and the ''Legendary Super Saiyan'' film.