March 9, 2023
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Takahiro Kimura, who died on March 5, first got the idea that animation might be a career for him when he watched episodes of Armored Troops VOTOMS And Blue Meteor SPT Layzner in his student days. “For university,” he later recalled, “well, I realized it was going to take me another eight years if I wanted to graduate at the rate I was going, so I decided to give up.” done! I’m really sorry for my parents. They chose to apply for work at the studio lesnarAnime R, because at the time there was an anime magazine column about life in the studio, and it seemed like a fun place to work.
“I was very happy because I chose anime r because I liked lesnar, The first shot I worked on was a robot leg taking a step forward. It was a little disappointing that it wasn’t a character!”
“The reality is that when you get into anime r and start working, there was a lot of action and robot jobs. But I felt a strong urge to create more female characters, so I drew them as doodles.” Kimura cited two female character designers as her inspirations: Rumiko Takahashi and Mutsumi Inomata – “I loved sexy female characters when they were drawn by women.”
His superiors soon took note, and began hiring him on design jobs that didn’t involve giant robots. His character was designed in the late night TV show lemon fairy In 1987. before long, he was working idol angel welcome yoko and award winning maternal uncle is a fourth grade studentdeclaring that he has found his groove and loves being an animator.
After a while, Anime R’s location in Osaka made Kimura feel isolated from the creative center of the anime industry. “Basically, if you are just making stuff, there is no particular inconvenience. I could have a meeting over the phone and send stuff by courier. There was no manufacturer to worry about as all we had to do was draw. It was cool. But once you start working as a character designer, suddenly you find you can’t ask: ‘What about this?’ so after i finish Gaogaigar, better man And brigadoon, I thought it was time to go to the source and actually go to Tokyo. So that’s what I did.
He also worked on several adult games, most notably snake series, on which he usually used the pseudonym Awaji Sugawara. Much of his adult artwork was later compiled into an art book under his real name, titled Risky Doll,
His most famous work in his later years was on code Geass, whose production website was the official site for the announcement of his death. Production Notes Online said, “We are proud to say that Mr. Kimura has created many characters through animation and illustrations, and has created wonderful animation images that will move our hearts.” “We have nothing but words of gratitude.”
Jonathan Clements
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