Hajime Katoki was born in 1963 in Japan. He is a famous mecha designer for the Japanese animations and video games. One of his most remarkable designs that is still praised up to nowadays is more particularly his mechanical designs for the Gundam series. These series, created since the early 80s, are long running TV-shows featuring stories of fictional futuristic wars in which the soldiers fight with 20-feet tall humanoid war machines. The reason of his Gundam designs being so controversial for his time is because Katoki was one of the first designers to create realistic robots, later on known as real-type robots, that have no supernatural powers and unlike any mecha series of his time, the robots from the Gundam series function with limited supplies and might technically be constructed in our distant future, once our technology is advanced enough. *note that a giant model of Katoki's first Gundam design is constructed in Japan and even its original 20-feet height is also respected*
Katoki works as a member of the Sunrise studio, generally for mecha design or mecha updates, and various homage of his designs are made in the Super Robot Wars game series, where all his previous works are put together in an original storyline.
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