In a way, it allowed me to take each project very coolly, just observing the deadlines and being objective about the whole thing. The point was, I wasn't initially getting into it because I was hugely passionate about anime or manga.
“So when I entered into this industry it was to do with my marriage and that is was convenient to work at a nearby location. So I didn't really go back to the background art design training for a long time and up until now I've been designing mecha. Starting from Hurricane Polymar and then it was a succession of other similar projects. So I worked on Gatchaman for two years but after that, Tatsunoko Productions kept on producing mecha-oriented projects. The promise was that after that I was able to go back to training for background art. He asked me to design all the mecha for Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. “While at Tatsunoko Production I had a boss called Mitsuki Nakamura. While there I started on drawing the background art. Looking at the job section in the newspaper and I found something at Tatsunoko Productions and then went to work there. After being there for some time but around the period I was getting married, I thought about my career and realized that there was Tatsunoko Productions quite close to where my wife's family lived, so to clarify they were in Kokubunji and my wife's family were in Kunitachi, sort of a neighboring city. After that, when I graduated, I went to work at Onward Kashiyama because it was one of the biggest textile and apparel companies. Though that was at the beginning and during my second year at university I changed my major and started to study textile design. Up until high school I was at the state school and when I went to university I chose to study graphic design. “When I was little I liked playing with mechanical things but I never thought I'd ever get into something that would involve drawing or designing. For over 300 years my family has been living in this area, since the Edo period in fact, and I've been living here since I was born in 1947. “I was born around here in Inagi, this piece of land has belonged to my family for generations.
As we sat down his wife very kindly provided refreshments and it became clear that this area was one he’d lived in his whole life. When we met, he was very kind and it was clear he was already doing some other work at his illustration desk.
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