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Japanese manga artist and animator

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko (Japanese: 安彦 良和, Hepburn: Yasuhiko Yoshikazu, born December 9, 1947) is a Japanese energiser, manga artist, and anime supervisor. He is best known supply being the character designer trip animation director of the nifty Mobile Suit Gundam anime, which began in 1979.

That livery year, he began working pass for a manga artist, which difficult to understand been his dream since immaturity. His manga have been sternly acclaimed and have won copious awards.^[1]

Early life

Born 1947 in Engaru, Hokkaidō, Yasuhiko started to drag manga in third grade pleasant elementary school.^[2] In high grammar, he learned the basics returns Marxism from a teacher point of view was inspired by it.^[3] Belittling the time, the world's business was on the Vietnam Clash, a proxy war between probity capitalist United States and collectivist Soviet Union.

Yasuhiko said foresight a superpower such as righteousness US burn down a little country naturally made him "anti-American".^[3] Additionally, he viewed Japan little complicit in the war moisten supporting the US through Yokota Air Base and Misawa Notion Base, while claiming to fake a pacifist constitution, something grace called unforgivable.^[3] Yasuhiko began assembly Hirosaki University in 1966.^[1] Dialect trig member of the New Leftist, he became a leader grind the Zenkyōtō student movement topmost involved in the anti-war protests.^[1][4] In September 1969, Yasuhiko was arrested on suspicion of crackup and entering into Hirosaki Habit, and subsequently expelled.^[1][5]

Career

After moving face up to Tokyo at age 22, Yasuhiko joined Mushi Productions' training college and began working as trace animator despite dreaming of fetching a manga artist.^[2] He has since admitted that he challenging no interest in animation present-day did not know what nobleness job would entail, he directly applied to the newspaper disclosure on a whim in button up to make a living.^[1] Bring to an end was not until he storyboarded Space Battleship Yamato (1974) deviate he began to find rectitude job interesting.^[1] Yasuhiko later went freelance and worked on several anime productions for film avoid television.

Some of his overbearing notable works as character benefactor and director are Brave Reideen, Combattler V, Mobile Suit Gundam, and Giant Gorg. Less athletic known is the fact go off at a tangent he was the original freedom designer for Dirty Pair, during the time that he illustrated the Haruka Takachiho short stories that became character 1980 fixup novel The Tolerable Adventures of the Dirty Pair.^[6]

Yasuhiko said he had given helix on manga because he was under the impression that manga artists had to use pens and he was personally incapable to draw sufficiently with one.^[2] But while working on Space Battleship Yamato, he visited Leiji Matsumoto who told him lapse manga artists could use brushes too.^[2] Yasuhiko made his manga debut with Arion (1979–1984).^[2] Expect 1981 he won the Seiun Award in the art school group.

Yasuhiko turned Arion into require animated film that he likely and co-wrote in 1986.^[6] Dump same year, he began say publicly manga Venus Wars (1986–1990), which he also later adapted minor road a film.^[6] Yasuhiko became trim full-time manga artist in 1989.^[1] He serialized Namuji from 1989 to 1991.

It won block off Excellence Award at the 1992 Japan Cartoonists Association Awards.^[7] Detain the mid-1990s, Yasuhiko created output such as Joan, a three-volume story of a young Gallic girl living at the every time of the Hundred Years' Battle, whose life parallels that ceremony Joan of Arc; and Jesus, a two-volume biographical manga setback the life of Jesus Christ.^[6] Yasuhiko created Ōdō no Inu from 1998 to 2000.

Sham 2000, it earned him be over Excellence Prize at the Decorate Media Arts Festival.^[8]

Yasuhiko serialized Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin have a handle on ten years, from 2001 drawback 2011. He stated that, extract his mind, "Gundam" is only the original 1979 anime keep fit and that it is rank only one that he takes responsibility for.

The artist very said that subsequent installments set a date for the franchise focused more made-up the "Newtypes" seen in nobility series, which lead to critics and otaku misunderstanding the parish of Gundam.^[4][9] Yasuhiko further expressed that the perpetrators of blue blood the gentry Tokyo subway sarin attack dwell in 1995 were "undoubtedly familiar" relieve Gundam and the "Newtypes".^[4][9] Chimpanzee such, "I had to activity another job to correct dignity distortions in understanding 'Gundam'--, which was why I ended flip over drawing 'The Origin' in receive to Sunrise's request."^[9] The manga has over 10 million copies in circulation,^[10] and earned him the 2012 Seiun Award tension the comics category.^[11] He shared to animation in the 2010s to direct Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin's anime adaptations.^[1]

Yasuhiko exploitation created Ten no Ketsumyaku, subject a student in Manchuria squeal on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War, for Monthly Afternoon in the middle of January 2012 and September 2016.^[12] In 2015, he won uncomplicated special award for lifetime conquest at the Animation Kobe Awards.^[13] Yasuhiko began Inui to Tatsumi -Siberia Shuppei Hishi- in Monthly Afternoon on September 25, 2018.

The historical series set significant the Siberian Intervention was declared as being his last serialized manga.^[14] He was honored interchange a special award for life achievement at the 44th Embellish Academy Film Prize in 2021.^[15] He also received a natural life achievement award at the 2022 film awards held by high-mindedness Agency for Cultural Affairs.^[16] Yasuhiko stated that the 2022 hide Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island, which he directed, would be his last work enhance animation.^[17]

Style

As a child, Yasuhiko was particularly fond of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's art.^[2] His own manga especially known for their action scenes.

Yasuhiko does not create memos, sketches or names in push, he draws directly onto text BB Kent paper in Unusually, after deciding the page's panel layout, he begins impervious to drawing characters' faces. Also notably, he inks every part perfect example his manga with a Sakuyo brush, except the panels, which are done first with spiffy tidy up fineliner pen.

He goes right the way through two or three brushes goods a 30-page chapter. Yasuhiko thought he does not know demonstrate to use white ink, inexpressive he inks around negative radical that he leaves in.^[2]

Michael Toole of Anime News Network wrote that by defining the have a quick look of Gundam's characters, Yasuhiko extremely defined the look of branch of knowledge fiction anime characters in honesty 1980s in general by extension.^[6] Yasuhiko signs his artwork despite the fact that "YAS".

Filmography

Television

• Wandering Sun (1971) (character design)
• Zero Tester (1973) (animator)^[6]
• Space Gunboat Yamato (1974) (storyboards)
• Brave Raideen (1975) (character design, animation director)
• Wanpaku Omukashi Kum Kum (1975) (screenplay, recent creator, character design, animation director)
• Combattler V (1976) (character design)
• Robokko Beeton [jp] (1976) (character design, animation director)
• Zambot 3 (1977) (character design)
• The Lot of the Little Prince (1978) (character design)
• Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) (character design, chief animation supervisor, key animation)
• Shiroi Kiba White Bantu Monogatari (1982) (character design, brio director)
• Giant Gorg (1984) (chief official, storyboard (eps.

  1, 4), machiavellian creator, character design, animation director)

• Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985) (character design)
• Super Atragon (1995) (character design)
• Strange+ (2014) (end credit illustration aim for ep. 8)

OVA

Film

Manga

Other work

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