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Yoshikazu Yasuhiko

January 01, 1970

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko (Japanese: 安彦 良和, Hepburn: Yasuhiko Yoshikazu, born December 9, 1947) is a Japanese animator, manga artist, and anime director. He is best known for being the character designer and animation director of the original Mobile Suit Gundam anime, which began in 1979. That same year, he began working as a manga artist, which had been his dream since childhood. His manga have been critically acclaimed and have won numerous awards.[1]

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
安彦 良和
Yasuhiko at the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival, 2015
Born (1947-12-09) December 9, 1947 (age 76)
Engaru, Hokkaidō, Japan
Occupation(s)Animator, manga artist, director
Years active1970–present
Known forMobile Suit Gundam
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin
AwardsSeiun Award (1981, 2012)
Japan Academy Film Prize (2021)

Early life edit

Born 1947 in Engaru, Hokkaidō, Yasuhiko started to draw manga in third grade of elementary school.[2] In high school, he learned the basics of Marxism from a teacher and was inspired by it.[3] At the time, the world's focus was on the Vietnam War, a proxy war between the capitalist United States and socialist Soviet Union. Yasuhiko said seeing a superpower such as the US burn down a small country naturally made him "anti-American".[3] Additionally, he viewed Japan as complicit in the war by supporting the US through Yokota Air Base and Misawa Air Base, while claiming to have a pacifist constitution, something he called unforgivable.[3] Yasuhiko began attending Hirosaki University in 1966.[1] A member of the New Left, he became a leader in the Zenkyōtō student movement and involved in the anti-war protests.[1][4] In September 1969, Yasuhiko was arrested on suspicion of breaking and entering into Hirosaki University, and subsequently expelled.[1][5]

Career edit

After moving to Tokyo at age 22, Yasuhiko joined Mushi Productions' training school and began working as an animator despite dreaming of becoming a manga artist.[2] He has since admitted that he had no interest in animation and did not know what the job would entail, he simply applied to the newspaper advertisement on a whim in order to make a living.[1] It was not until he storyboarded Space Battleship Yamato (1974) that he began to find the job interesting.[1] Yasuhiko later went freelance and worked on various anime productions for film and television. Some of his most notable works as character designer and director are Brave Reideen, Combattler V, Mobile Suit Gundam, and Giant Gorg. Less well known is the fact that he was the original character designer for Dirty Pair, when he illustrated the Haruka Takachiho short stories that became the 1980 fixup novel The Great Adventures of the Dirty Pair.[6]

Yasuhiko said he had given up on manga because he was under the impression that manga artists had to use pens and he was personally unable to draw sufficiently with one.[2] But while working on Space Battleship Yamato, he visited Leiji Matsumoto who told him that manga artists could use brushes too.[2] Yasuhiko made his manga debut with Arion (1979–1984).[2] In 1981 he won the Seiun Award in the art category. Yasuhiko turned Arion into an animated film that he directed and co-wrote in 1986.[6] That same year, he began the manga Venus Wars (1986–1990), which he also later adapted into a film.[6] Yasuhiko became a full-time manga artist in 1989.[1] He serialized Namuji from 1989 to 1991. It won an Excellence Award at the 1992 Japan Cartoonists Association Awards.[7] In the mid-1990s, Yasuhiko created works such as Joan, a three-volume story of a young French girl living at the time of the Hundred Years' War, whose life parallels that of Joan of Arc; and Jesus, a two-volume biographical manga about the life of Jesus Christ.[6] Yasuhiko created Ōdō no Inu from 1998 to 2000. In 2000, it earned him an Excellence Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival.[8]

Yasuhiko serialized Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin for ten years, from 2001 to 2011. He stated that, in his mind, "Gundam" is only the original 1979 anime series and that it is the only one that he takes responsibility for. The artist also said that subsequent installments in the franchise focused more on the "Newtypes" seen in the series, which lead to critics and otaku misunderstanding the theme of Gundam.[4][9] Yasuhiko further stated that the perpetrators of the Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995 were "undoubtedly familiar" with Gundam and the "Newtypes".[4][9] As such, "I had to do another job to correct the distortions in understanding 'Gundam'--, which was why I ended up drawing 'The Origin' in response to Sunrise's request."[9] The manga has over 10 million copies in circulation,[10] and earned him the 2012 Seiun Award in the comics category.[11] He returned to animation in the 2010s to direct Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin's anime adaptations.[1]

Yasuhiko then created Ten no Ketsumyaku, about a student in Manchuria on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War, for Monthly Afternoon between January 2012 and September 2016.[12] In 2015, he won a special award for lifetime achievement 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 during the Siberian Intervention was announced as being his last serialized manga.[14] He was honored with a special award for lifetime achievement at the 44th Japan Academy Film Prize in 2021.[15] He also received a lifetime achievement award at the 2022 film awards held by the Agency for Cultural Affairs.[16] Yasuhiko stated that the 2022 film Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island, which he directed, would be his last work in animation.[17]

Style edit

As a child, Yasuhiko was particularly fond of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's art.[2] His own manga are known for their action scenes. Yasuhiko does not create memos, sketches or names in advance, he draws directly onto manuscript BB Kent paper in pencil. Unusually, after deciding the page's panel layout, he begins by drawing characters' faces. Also unusually, he inks every part of his manga with a Sakuyo brush, except the panels, which are done first with a fineliner pen. He goes through two or three brushes for a 30-page chapter. Yasuhiko said he does not know how to use white ink, so he inks around negative space that he leaves in.[2]

Michael Toole of Anime News Network wrote that by defining the look of Gundam's characters, Yasuhiko also defined the look of science fiction anime characters in the 1980s in general by extension.[6] Yasuhiko signs his artwork as "YAS".

Filmography edit

Television edit

OVA edit

Film edit

Manga edit

  • Arion (1979–1984)
  • Kurd no Hoshi (1985–1987)
  • Venus Wars (1986–1990)
  • C Kouto (1987–1988)
  • Namuji (1989–1991)
  • Nijiiro no Trotsky (1990–1996)
  • Zinmu (1992–1995)
  • Anton (1992–1995)
  • Joan (1995–1996, spelled Jeanne in Japanese)
  • Jesus (1997)
  • Maraya (1998)
  • Waga na wa Nero (1998–1999)
  • Ōdō no Inu (1998–2000)
  • Dattan Typhoon (2000–2002)
  • Nomi no Ō (2001)
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (2001–2011)
  • Alexandros Sekai Teikoku e no Yume (2003)
  • Uruwashijima Yume Monogatari [jp] (2006–2012)
  • Ten no Ketsumyaku [jp] (2012–2016)
  • Inui to Tatsumi -Siberia Shuppei Hishi- (2018–present)

Other work edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Ishikawa, Tomoya (2020-02-21). "人はめぐりあい、過ちを繰り返す 『ガンダム』で描いた正義なき世界　安彦良和のTHE ORIGIN（前編）". The Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-07-29.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Yoshikazu Yasuhiko". Urasawa Naoki no Manben Neo. Episode 9 (in Japanese). 2021-06-09. NHK Educational TV.
  3. ^ a b c "ガンダムの原点にある熱狂と挫折 安彦良和がアニメの世界に入るまで". The Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). 2022-06-19. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
  4. ^ a b c Ishikawa, Tomoya (2020-02-21). "「僕はニュータイプを決して支持しない」 ガンダムは歴史そのもの、続編に興味はない 安彦良和のTHE ORIGIN（後編）". The Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-07-29.
  5. ^ "私のなかの歴史 オホーツクから「ガンダム」へ 7". Hokkaido Shimbun Evening Edition (in Japanese). 2012-03-12.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g Toole, Michael (2014-08-10). "The Mike Toole Show – YAS Hands". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2022-03-27.
  7. ^ "日本アニメ界の半世紀　『ガンダム』安彦良和が語る、アニメの未来". The Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). 2020-03-07. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
  8. ^ (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Archived from the original on 2007-10-13. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
  9. ^ a b c Komatsu, Mikikazu (2020-02-24). "Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Confirms He is Working on A New Anime Project Related to First Gundam". Crunchyroll. Retrieved 2022-07-29.
  10. ^ "コミックス累計1000万部！安彦良和が描く「機動戦士ガンダム THE ORIGIN」電子書籍いよいよ発進！！著者からの描き下ろし"お祝いイラスト"も到着！". PR Times (in Japanese). 2015-06-24. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
  11. ^ Loo, Egan (2012-07-07). "Madoka Magica, Gundam: The Origin Win at Japan Sci-Fi Con". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
  12. ^ Pineda, Rafael Antonio (2016-09-23). "Gundam the Origin's Yasuhiko, Monogatari Series' Nisioisin Each End Manga Series". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
  13. ^ Loo, Egan (2015-11-09). "Shirobako, New Ghost in the Shell Film, Seiji Mizushima Win Anime Kobe Awards". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
  14. ^ Sherman, Jennifer (2018-08-24). "Gundam's Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Launches 'Final New' Manga Series". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
  15. ^ Mateo, Alex (2021-01-19). "Gundam's Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Wins Japan Academy Film Prize Association's Special Award". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
  16. ^ Cayanan, Joanna (2022-10-09). "Gundam's Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Receives Japanese Government's Film Lifetime Achievement Award". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2023-02-04.
  17. ^ Komatsu, Mikikazu (2022-05-18). "Cucuruz Doan's Island Director Yoshikazu Yasuhiko: "I Have No Regrets about First Gundam"". Crunchyroll. Retrieved 2023-02-04.
  18. ^ 安彦良和がLUNA SEAのジャケでメンバー描き下ろし、SUGIZO「光栄の一言」. Natalie (in Japanese). 2019-04-15. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
  19. ^ ガンプラ40周年×LUNA SEA30周年、"LUNA SEA専用ザクII"登場. Barks (in Japanese). 2020-01-31. Retrieved 2021-02-21.

External links edit

  • Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's manga at the Media Arts Database (in Japanese)
  • Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's anime at the Media Arts Database (in Japanese)
  • Yoshikazu Yasuhiko at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

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translated from the existing Japanese Wikipedia article at ja 安彦良和 see its history for attribution You may also add the template Translated ja 安彦良和 to the talk page For more guidance see Wikipedia Translation Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Japanese 安彦 良和 Hepburn Yasuhiko Yoshikazu born December 9 1947 is a Japanese animator manga artist and anime director He is best known for being the character designer and animation director of the original Mobile Suit Gundam anime which began in 1979 That same year he began working as a manga artist which had been his dream since childhood His manga have been critically acclaimed and have won numerous awards 1 Yoshikazu Yasuhiko安彦 良和Yasuhiko at the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival 2015Born 1947 12 09 December 9 1947 age 76 Engaru Hokkaidō JapanOccupation s Animator manga artist directorYears active1970 presentKnown forMobile Suit GundamMobile Suit Gundam The OriginAwardsSeiun Award 1981 2012 Japan Academy Film Prize 2021 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Style 4 Filmography 4 1 Television 4 2 OVA 4 3 Film 5 Manga 6 Other work 7 References 8 External linksEarly life editBorn 1947 in Engaru Hokkaidō Yasuhiko started to draw manga in third grade of elementary school 2 In high school he learned the basics of Marxism from a teacher and was inspired by it 3 At the time the world s focus was on the Vietnam War a proxy war between the capitalist United States and socialist Soviet Union Yasuhiko said seeing a superpower such as the US burn down a small country naturally made him anti American 3 Additionally he viewed Japan as complicit in the war by supporting the US through Yokota Air Base and Misawa Air Base while claiming to have a pacifist constitution something he called unforgivable 3 Yasuhiko began attending Hirosaki University in 1966 1 A member of the New Left he became a leader in the Zenkyōtō student movement and involved in the anti war protests 1 4 In September 1969 Yasuhiko was arrested on suspicion of breaking and entering into Hirosaki University and subsequently expelled 1 5 Career editAfter moving to Tokyo at age 22 Yasuhiko joined Mushi Productions training school and began working as an animator despite dreaming of becoming a manga artist 2 He has since admitted that he had no interest in animation and did not know what the job would entail he simply applied to the newspaper advertisement on a whim in order to make a living 1 It was not until he storyboarded Space Battleship Yamato 1974 that he began to find the job interesting 1 Yasuhiko later went freelance and worked on various anime productions for film and television Some of his most notable works as character designer and director are Brave Reideen Combattler V Mobile Suit Gundam and Giant Gorg Less well known is the fact that he was the original character designer for Dirty Pair when he illustrated the Haruka Takachiho short stories that became the 1980 fixup novel The Great Adventures of the Dirty Pair 6 Yasuhiko said he had given up on manga because he was under the impression that manga artists had to use pens and he was personally unable to draw sufficiently with one 2 But while working on Space Battleship Yamato he visited Leiji Matsumoto who told him that manga artists could use brushes too 2 Yasuhiko made his manga debut with Arion 1979 1984 2 In 1981 he won the Seiun Award in the art category Yasuhiko turned Arion into an animated film that he directed and co wrote in 1986 6 That same year he began the manga Venus Wars 1986 1990 which he also later adapted into a film 6 Yasuhiko became a full time manga artist in 1989 1 He serialized Namuji from 1989 to 1991 It won an Excellence Award at the 1992 Japan Cartoonists Association Awards 7 In the mid 1990s Yasuhiko created works such as Joan a three volume story of a young French girl living at the time of the Hundred Years War whose life parallels that of Joan of Arc and Jesus a two volume biographical manga about the life of Jesus Christ 6 Yasuhiko created Ōdō no Inu from 1998 to 2000 In 2000 it earned him an Excellence Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival 8 Yasuhiko serialized Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin for ten years from 2001 to 2011 He stated that in his mind Gundam is only the original 1979 anime series and that it is the only one that he takes responsibility for The artist also said that subsequent installments in the franchise focused more on the Newtypes seen in the series which lead to critics and otaku misunderstanding the theme of Gundam 4 9 Yasuhiko further stated that the perpetrators of the Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995 were undoubtedly familiar with Gundam and the Newtypes 4 9 As such I had to do another job to correct the distortions in understanding Gundam which was why I ended up drawing The Origin in response to Sunrise s request 9 The manga has over 10 million copies in circulation 10 and earned him the 2012 Seiun Award in the comics category 11 He returned to animation in the 2010s to direct Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin s anime adaptations 1 Yasuhiko then created Ten no Ketsumyaku about a student in Manchuria on the eve of the Russo Japanese War for Monthly Afternoon between January 2012 and September 2016 12 In 2015 he won a special award for lifetime achievement 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 during the Siberian Intervention was announced as being his last serialized manga 14 He was honored with a special award for lifetime achievement at the 44th Japan Academy Film Prize in 2021 15 He also received a lifetime achievement award at the 2022 film awards held by the Agency for Cultural Affairs 16 Yasuhiko stated that the 2022 film Mobile Suit Gundam Cucuruz Doan s Island which he directed would be his last work in animation 17 Style editAs a child Yasuhiko was particularly fond of Mitsuteru Yokoyama s art 2 His own manga are known for their action scenes Yasuhiko does not create memos sketches or names in advance he draws directly onto manuscript BB Kent paper in pencil Unusually after deciding the page s panel layout he begins by drawing characters faces Also unusually he inks every part of his manga with a Sakuyo brush except the panels which are done first with a fineliner pen He goes through two or three brushes for a 30 page chapter Yasuhiko said he does not know how to use white ink so he inks around negative space that he leaves in 2 Michael Toole of Anime News Network wrote that by defining the look of Gundam s characters Yasuhiko also defined the look of science fiction anime characters in the 1980s in general by extension 6 Yasuhiko signs his artwork as YAS Filmography editTelevision edit Wandering Sun 1971 character design Zero Tester 1973 animator 6 Space Battleship Yamato 1974 storyboards Brave Raideen 1975 character design animation director Wanpaku Omukashi Kum Kum 1975 screenplay original creator character design animation director Combattler V 1976 character design Robokko Beeton jp 1976 character design animation director Zambot 3 1977 character design The Adventures of the Little Prince 1978 character design Mobile Suit Gundam 1979 character design chief animation director key animation Shiroi Kiba White Fang Monogatari 1982 character design animation director Giant Gorg 1984 chief director storyboard eps 1 4 original creator character design animation director Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam 1985 character design Super Atragon 1995 character design Strange 2014 end credit illustration for ep 8 OVA edit Kaze to Ki no Uta Sanctus Sei Naru ka na 1987 director storyboard 6 Crusher Joe OAV 1989 character design Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn 2009 original character design illustrations for the original light novel Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin 2015 chief director storyboard eps 1 4 original manga character design Film edit Crusher Joe the Movie 1983 director script screenplay storyboard character design animation director Arion 1986 director character design Venus Wars 1989 original story director character design Mobile Suit Gundam F91 1991 character design Mobile Suit Gundam Cucuruz Doan s Island 2022 director Manga editArion 1979 1984 Kurd no Hoshi 1985 1987 Venus Wars 1986 1990 C Kouto 1987 1988 Namuji 1989 1991 Nijiiro no Trotsky 1990 1996 Zinmu 1992 1995 Anton 1992 1995 Joan 1995 1996 spelled Jeanne in Japanese Jesus 1997 Maraya 1998 Waga na wa Nero 1998 1999 Ōdō no Inu 1998 2000 Dattan Typhoon 2000 2002 Nomi no Ō 2001 Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin 2001 2011 Alexandros Sekai Teikoku e no Yume 2003 Uruwashijima Yume Monogatari jp 2006 2012 Ten no Ketsumyaku jp 2012 2016 Inui to Tatsumi Siberia Shuppei Hishi 2018 present Other work edit Sora no Uta Higher and Higher Hisōbi 2019 single from the band Luna Sea two cover illustrations for the limited edition release 18 The Beyond 2020 single from the band Luna Sea cover illustration 19 References edit a b c d e f g h Ishikawa Tomoya 2020 02 21 人はめぐりあい 過ちを繰り返す ガンダム で描いた正義なき世界 安彦良和のTHE ORIGIN 前編 The Asahi Shimbun in Japanese Retrieved 2022 07 29 a b c d e f g Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Urasawa Naoki no Manben Neo Episode 9 in Japanese 2021 06 09 NHK Educational TV a b c ガンダムの原点にある熱狂と挫折 安彦良和がアニメの世界に入るまで The Asahi Shimbun in Japanese 2022 06 19 Retrieved 2022 07 30 a b c Ishikawa Tomoya 2020 02 21 僕はニュータイプを決して支持しない ガンダムは歴史そのもの 続編に興味はない 安彦良和のTHE ORIGIN 後編 The Asahi Shimbun in Japanese Retrieved 2022 07 29 私のなかの歴史 オホーツクから ガンダム へ 7 Hokkaido Shimbun Evening Edition in Japanese 2012 03 12 a b c d e f g Toole Michael 2014 08 10 The Mike Toole Show YAS Hands Anime News Network Retrieved 2022 03 27 日本アニメ界の半世紀 ガンダム 安彦良和が語る アニメの未来 The Asahi Shimbun in Japanese 2020 03 07 Retrieved 2022 07 30 2000 Japan Media Arts Festival Awards in Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs Archived from the original on 2007 10 13 Retrieved 2022 07 30 a b c Komatsu Mikikazu 2020 02 24 Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Confirms He is Working on A New Anime Project Related to First Gundam Crunchyroll Retrieved 2022 07 29 コミックス累計1000万部 安彦良和が描く 機動戦士ガンダム THE ORIGIN 電子書籍いよいよ発進 著者からの描き下ろし お祝いイラスト も到着 PR Times in Japanese 2015 06 24 Retrieved 2022 07 30 Loo Egan 2012 07 07 Madoka Magica Gundam The Origin Win at Japan Sci Fi Con Anime News Network Retrieved 2022 07 30 Pineda Rafael Antonio 2016 09 23 Gundam the Origin s Yasuhiko Monogatari Series Nisioisin Each End Manga Series Anime News Network Retrieved 2022 07 30 Loo Egan 2015 11 09 Shirobako New Ghost in the Shell Film Seiji Mizushima Win Anime Kobe Awards Anime News Network Retrieved 2022 07 30 Sherman Jennifer 2018 08 24 Gundam s Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Launches Final New Manga Series Anime News Network Retrieved 2022 07 30 Mateo Alex 2021 01 19 Gundam s Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Wins Japan Academy Film Prize Association s Special Award Anime News Network Retrieved 2022 07 30 Cayanan Joanna 2022 10 09 Gundam s Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Receives Japanese Government s Film Lifetime Achievement Award Anime News Network Retrieved 2023 02 04 Komatsu Mikikazu 2022 05 18 Cucuruz Doan s Island Director Yoshikazu Yasuhiko I Have No Regrets about First Gundam Crunchyroll Retrieved 2023 02 04 安彦良和がLUNA SEAのジャケでメンバー描き下ろし SUGIZO 光栄の一言 Natalie in Japanese 2019 04 15 Retrieved 2019 07 07 ガンプラ40周年 LUNA SEA30周年 LUNA SEA専用ザクII 登場 Barks in Japanese 2020 01 31 Retrieved 2021 02 21 External links edit nbsp Anime and Manga portal Yoshikazu Yasuhiko s manga at the Media Arts Database in Japanese Yoshikazu Yasuhiko s anime at the Media Arts Database in Japanese Yoshikazu Yasuhiko at Anime News Network s encyclopedia Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Yoshikazu Yasuhiko amp oldid 1191607994, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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