Hajime Katoki

Hajime Katoki (カトキハジメ) is a popular Japanese mecha designer. A member of the studio Sunrise, he is highly noted for his work on the Gundam series as well as his work on video games, such as the Virtual On series and Policenauts.

Biography
Born in 1963, Katoki gained fame with his designs for the graphic novel Gundam Sentinel. He then worked in the OVA series Gundam 0083, where he designed the famous RX-78 GP03 Dendrobium Orchis mobile weapon. His next big work was V Gundam, where he was the main mechanical designer, creating the main mobile suits Victory Gundam, V2 Gundam and the hefty V2 Assault Buster Gundam. After that, he worked in G Gundam, now in design of the evil mobile suits. He then worked in Gundam Wing on some minor mobile suits, but in Gundam Wing Endless Waltz he designed all of the mobile suits, and re-designed the Gundams with a more fantastic style, creating one of his most famous mechs: the XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero Custom. To correspond with these new designs, he also redesigned the 5 original Gundams from Gundam Wing, as a result, his redesign of Wing Gundam has become a popular model kit.

Katoki also has worked in Super Robot Wars and Virtual On video games, and in the Patlabor 2 movie. He also collaborates quite frequently with Bandai, often doing touch-up designs for the Master Grade model kits and production of the Gundam fix figuration (G.F.F.) series action figures.

In his art book Gundam Fix Katoki said, "Do people, like myself, spend time imagining what it would be like if Gundam robots were actually present on the streets of our cities? Are you sure you're not limiting yourself to the images that were offered in the animated series? One of the reasons that I fell in love with Gundam was that it excites me to imagine what it would be like if these machines actually existed, and I worry that other fans may be losing out..." He said he hopes his work will catch peoples' attention"...then people who had never before been drawn in by the magic of these giant robots may discover their attraction for the first time."

Super Robot Wars series

 * 4th Super Robot Wars
 * Super Robot Wars Gaiden: Masō Kishin - The Lord Of Elemental
 * Shin Super Robot Wars
 * Super Robot Wars F
 * Super Robot Wars F Final
 * Super Robot Wars Complete Box
 * Super Robot Wars Alpha
 * Super Robot Wars Alpha For Dreamcast
 * Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden
 * Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation
 * 2nd Super Robot Wars Alpha
 * Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation 2
 * 3rd Super Robot Wars Alpha
 * Super Robot Wars Original Generations
 * Super Robot Wars Original Generation: The Animation
 * Super Robot Wars Original Generation: Divine Wars
 * Super Robot Wars Original Generation Gaiden

Gundam series

 * Gundam Sentinel
 * Gundam Sentinel 0079 (unofficial series)
 * Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory
 * Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: The Last Blitz of Zeon
 * Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
 * Mobile Fighter G Gundam
 * Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam
 * Gundam Fix
 * New Mobile Report Gundam Wing
 * Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
 * New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Operation Meteor
 * New Mobile Report Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
 * Gundam Evolve (Episode 4 and 7)
 * Superior Defender Gundam Force
 * Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO
 * Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
 * Master Grade
 * RX-78-2 Gundam Ver.Ka
 * XXXG-01W Wing Gundam Ver.Ka
 * RB-79 Ball Ver.Ka
 * XM-X1 Crossbone Gundam X-1 Ver.Ka
 * RX-0 Unicorn Gundam Ver.Ka
 * MSN-06S Sinanju Ver. Ka
 * LM312V04 Victory Gundam Ver. Ka
 * XXXG-01D Deathscythe Gundam Ver.Ka

Virtual On series

 * Cyber Troopers Virtual-On
 * Cyber Troopers Virtual-On One Man Rescue
 * Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Oratorio Tangram
 * Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Fragmentary Passage
 * Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Force
 * Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Marz

Other works

 * Patlabor: The Movie 2
 * WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3
 * Sgt. Frog (Episode 38 and 73)
 * Chogekijyouban Kerorogunso 2: Shinkai no Princess dearimasu! (also known as Sgt. Frog The Super Movie 2)
 * The Cockpit
 * Xardion
 * Welcome to the N.H.K. (Episode 24)
 * Gradius II (X68000 version)
 * Policenauts (mechanical designs for the EMPS mecha)
 * Super Robot Spirit
 * Real Robots Final Attack
 * Super Hero Sakusen
 * Composite Ver. Ka
 * Z-01Z Lancelot Albion Ver.Ka
 * Gurren Lagann Ver.Ka
 * Temjin Ver.Ka
 * PTX-EX Exbein Ver.Ka

He was also involved in the color scheme design of Toyota Team Kraft's SC430 (#35, GT500) which paricipating in Super GT seasons in 2006 and 2007. His colour scheme was later replaced by Gundam Exia-like colour scheme on July, 2007 (race 5 in 2007 season) as a promotion project of Mobile Suit Gundam 00, the most recent Gundam Series.