Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
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Yoshiyuki Sadamoto at J-Popcon in Copenhagen, 2007
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| Born | January 29, 1962 Tokuyama (now Shunan), Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | Character designer, manga artist |
| Known for | Neon Genesis Evangelion (manga) |
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (貞本 義行 Sadamoto Yoshiyuki?, born January 29, 1962, in Tokuyama (now Shunan), Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese character designer, manga artist, and one of the founding members of the Gainax anime studio. Before the studio was founded under the official name (it was originally called Daicon Film), he served as animator on the second animated project, the Daicon IV opening animation. His first assignment as character designer in Gainax was for Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise, released in 1987. He also worked as animator on Gunbuster and Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, and he came back to this specialty for the first episode of Diebuster (also known as Gunbuster 2 or Top wo Nerae! 2). He is also the character designer of the best known Gainax anime series, Neon Genesis Evangelion, as well as the author of its manga adaptation (which is also Sadamoto's first full-length manga work). He is also the character designer for the later Rebuild of Evangelion films produced by Studio Khara.
In addition to his work on Neon Genesis Evangelion, Sadamoto did character designs for Nadia, FLCL, .hack//Sign, Diebuster, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, and Wolf Children. His first artbook is entitled Alpha, and presents a collection of illustrations by Sadamoto that were made before Evangelion (including Nadia and The Wings of Honneamise).
In 2003, Viz published a collection of his works, entitled Der Mond (German for "The Moon"). Other artbooks that include some of Sadamoto's works are Die Sterne (German for "The Stars") and Groundwork of FLCL.
Sadamoto is also the author of a short manga named Route 20 that was derived from an aborted anime project. He was also author of two manga one-shots, Dirty Work and System of Romance. He is currently serving as co-creator and character designer for the .hack game franchise.
Sadamoto also worked as an artist for the cover of Eric Clapton's album Pilgrim.
According to Yasuo Otsuka, who guided Sadamoto as a newcomer, there are only three people whom he regarded as more skillful than himself that he has met during his career. One of them is Yoshiyuki Sadamoto. The other two are Sadao Tsukioka who became a visual creator, and award-winning director Hayao Miyazaki.
When Otsuka met the three men, he seems to have felt that he was taking off his hat to them at once. However, he thinks that only Miyazaki completely mastered a genuinely superior animation technique at present. He guesses, "A too excellent person might despair in the group work".[citation needed]
In recent years, Sadamoto has concentrated primarily on comics and on illustration work. Since the early 1990s, his animation work has consisted primarily of character design and supervision, although this may be changing with his involvement in 2007 as key animator on episode 27 of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, and animation director and key animator on Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone.
A 2013 interview with Japanese Entertainment website Nihongogo [1] revealed Sadamoto is a stickler for details and wouldn't feel comfortable illustrating anything too unfamiliar with him. "In general, I don’t want to draw something that I have to study further in order to draw. For example, I could not draw a medical manga because it’s impossible for me to make a lie about medicine. Also things like Soccer and Baseball. I am unfamiliar with these worlds so it would be too difficult to show the actual plays." When asked about dream collaborations he revealed an interest in working with Robert Westall and Philip K. Dick but apologized "These are all deceased people, sorry."
References
- ↑ Yoshiyuki Sadamoto x Nihongogo Interview @ Japan Expo USA 2013 1st Impact Nihongogo, David Chang September 11, 2013
- Yoshiyuki Sadamoto at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Yuki, Masahiro. "The Official Art of .hack//Roots". (May 2007) Newtype USA. pp. 101–107.
External links
- An interview with Sadamoto, translated in Animerica in Vol. 6, issue No. 8
- Interview in Der Mond
- Interview in Anime News Network
- Sadamoto judges in a Twilight contest
- The Rose review of Der Mond
- Yoshiyuki Sadamoto on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
