Reiko Nagasawa
Japanese animator and character designer
Reiko Nagasawa (長澤 礼子, Nagasawa Reiko) is a Japanese animator. She has served as character designer for Takt Op. Destiny and Frieren.
Biography
Nagasawa began her career as an animator in 2013, and she worked at Ace of Diamond (2019-2020) and Sonny Boy (2021) as an animation director. She worked at the 2021 anime Takt Op. Destiny as their character designer, as well as co-chief animation directors (alongside Toshiyuki Sugano).
Nagasawa served as character designer for the first season of the Frieren anime. She was nominated for the Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best Character Design at the 9th Crunchyroll Anime Awards, but lost to Naoyuki Onda of Dandadan, though she did win Best Character Design at the 14th Newtype Anime Awards. Her designs of the characters were inspired from the then-most recent chapters of the original manga. She also served as the chief animation director for that same season.
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