Masaaki Yuasa

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Masaaki Yuasa

Masaaki Yuasa ( Jap. 湯浅政明 , Yuasa Masaaki * 16th March 1965 in Fukuoka Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese anime - Director and Animator .

In the 1980s he worked as a key artist for series such as Doraemon and 21 Emon .

Masaaki Yuasa is known for breaking with common viewing habits with films and series and taking on the creative tasks from directing to storyboards and scripts for all episodes himself. This began with his first directorial work in 1999 on the 18-minute pilot film Nanchatte Vampiyan for the later series Vampiyan Kids . For Tetsuo Satō's short film Nekojiru Sō from 2001, which received the award for best short film at the Montreal FanTasia Festival, he worked for the script, the storyboards and the animation direction.

For his manga film Mind Game from 2004 he received the Ōfuji Noburō Prize , the Grand Prize of the Japan Media Arts Festival , as well as the Prize for Best Animated Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and the Special Prize of the Montreal FanTasia Festival. He also designed the concept for the following series, Kemonozume from 2006 and Kaiba from 2008. In 2010, the film adaptation of Yojōhan Shinwa Taikei (Tatami Galaxy) followed, which the judges of the Japan Media Arts Festival described as a "richly expressive work that turns the limitations of television on its head", with "unique scene layouts, figure actions and color schemes" . With this work, a television series received the grand prize of the Japan Media Arts Festival for the first time.

In 2012, he and the animation studio Production IG launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the first crowd-found anime, Kick-Heart , for which $ 201,164 was raised. He wrote the script and directed the 12-minute, surreal short film from 2013, a reinterpretation of Romeo and Juliet as wrestlers, and the Korean animator Eun-Young Choi, with whom he has already worked on his previous series, was deputy director, the French illustrator Aymeric Kevin the artistic director. For this film he was awarded for Best Short Film at the FanTasia Festival, competed at the Ottawa and Annecy animation festivals, and was nominated for the exhibition Anime !! of the Museum of Modern Art .

In 2014 he and Eunyoung Choi contributed the episode 163 Food Chain for the US animated series Adventure Time , which he wrote and directed, for which both were nominated for an Annie Award . The episode was selected for the 2015 Annecy competition. In the same year he adapted the manga Ping Pong , for which he again relied on Eun-Young Choi as deputy director and Aymeric Kevin as artistic director. In June 2014, he and Choi announced the establishment of their own animation studio, Science Saru .

Works (selection)

  • 1999: Nanchatte Vampiyan (series pilot): Director, screenplay, storyboard, layout
  • 2001: Nekojiru Sō (OVA): screenplay, animation direction, storyboard
  • 2004: Mind Game (film): director, screenplay
  • 2006: Kemonozume (series): idea, direction, series composition, screenplay (episodes 1, 2, 6, 8, 9), storyboard (episodes 1, 2), episode direction (episodes 1, 2), key artist (episode 2)
  • 2007: Happy Machine (short film): director
  • 2008: Kaiba (series): idea, direction, scripts, storyboard (episodes 1, 10–12), layout, character designer
  • 2010: Yojōhan Shinwa Taikei (series): director, scripts, storyboard (episodes 1, 11)
  • 2010: Shin-men (series): director, character designer, storyboard (episodes 1-5)
  • 2013: Kick-Heart (film): idea, direction, screenplay
  • 2014: Ping Pong: The Animation (series): Direction, scripts, storyboards
  • 2014: Adventure Time (series): Director, screenplay, storyboard (episode 163)
  • 2014: Space Dandy (series): director, screenplay and storyboard (episode 3)
  • 2017: Yoru wa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otome (film): director, storyboard
  • 2017: Yoake Tsugeru Lu no Uta (film): director, storyboard
  • 2018: Devilman Crybaby (series): director, storyboard (episodes 1–2 and 9–10)

Web links

Commons : Masaaki Yuasa  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Todd Brown: Fantasia Wraps Up and Mind Game Cleans Up. (No longer available online.) In: twitch. July 26, 2005, archived from the original on May 25, 2015 ; accessed on May 25, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / twitchfilm.com
  2. ↑ 2010 Japan Media Arts Festival Animation Division Grand Prize The Tatami Galaxy. In: Japan Media Arts Plaza. Archived from the original on January 2011 ; accessed on May 25, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Fantasia 2013 Award Winners! In: www.fantasiafestival.com. August 8, 2013, accessed May 25, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Update 39: Rewards and Festival Updates for August · Masaaki Yuasa's "Kick-Heart". In: Kickstarter. August 3, 2013, accessed May 25, 2015 .
  5. ↑ France's Annecy to Screen Masaaki Yuasa, IG's "Kick-Heart" Anime Short. In: Anime News Network. March 26, 2013, accessed May 25, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Anime !! In: Museum of Modern Art. 2005, accessed on May 25, 2015 (English).
  7. ↑ Annie Awards Nominees. In: Annie Awards. Retrieved May 23, 2015 .
  8. ^ Adventure Time "Food Chain". In: Festival d'Animation Annecy. Retrieved May 23, 2015 .
  9. ^ Science Saru, le studio de Masaaki Yuasa et Eunyoung Choi (+ opening d'Adventure Time façon Food Chain). In: Catsuka. June 17, 2014, accessed May 25, 2015 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Yuasa, Masaaki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 湯 浅 政 明 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese Anime - director and animator
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Fukuoka Prefecture , Japan