Toshiko Nakamura

Nakamura worked as an inbetweener on Dragon Ball Z, creating the transitional frames that connect key animator poses into fluid movement. Her in-between animation also appears across four DBZ films: Cooler's Revenge, Super Android 13!, The Tree of Might, and Bojack Unbound, plus in-between checking on Lord Slug. She contributed to the Bardock - The Father of Goku special. Inbetweening is meticulous, frame-by-frame work that transforms character poses into believable motion, essential to DBZ's dynamic combat sequences.

Inbetweeners perform the foundational, labor-intensive work that brings key animators' poses to life. Nakamura's contributions across DBZ's theatrical releases demonstrate the high-quality inbetweening required for feature-film presentation, where animation quality standards exceed typical television episodes.