Kuroda Kazuya is a freelance Japanese animator, character designer and illustrator. He made with his debut with the Gainax series, Top Wo Nerae! and Fushigi no Umi no Nadia, where he contributed the in-between and key animation respectively. He was one of the people to follow Maeda, after he established Gonzo and was then the character designer and the chief animation director of Gonzo's Vandread, where his style of art and animation, especially of the female characters, brought him a great number of fans and renown.