{"id":241,"date":"2017-07-06T20:33:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T11:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moroosocio.e2.valueserver.jp\/wordpress\/?p=241"},"modified":"2017-07-06T20:33:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T11:33:50","slug":"autobiography-of-yasuhiko-yoshikazu-the-designer-of-gundam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moroosocio.e2.valueserver.jp\/wordpress\/archives\/241","title":{"rendered":"Autobiography of Yasuhiko Yoshikazu, the Designer of Gundam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yasuhiko Yoshikazu is famous as the animator who designed the characters for <em>Mobile Suite Gumdam<\/em>. Readers of his autobiography titled\u00a0<em>Genten<\/em> (Original Point) should be surprised that his success as an animator is just peripheral in his life.<\/p>\n<p>In 1949 Yasuhiko was born in a city in Hokkaido, as a son of a mint farmer. \u00a0Then he went to Hirosaki University in Aomori, and became a leading activist of student movement in the university. \u00a0In 1969, he was arrested for forcedly\u00a0occupying headquarters of the university. \u00a0He says, &#8220;I was chased off from\u00a0Hirosaki University, so slipped into the world of animation film.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After moving to Tokyo, Yasuhiko joined Mushi Puro as the animation production company established by Osamu Tezuka, but it went bankrupt soon. \u00a0In the other company, he participated as a staff in the production of <em>Space Battleship Yamato<\/em> (1974-75). \u00a0 \u00a0In 1979, he produced<em> Mobile Suit Gumdam<\/em>\u00a0as a character designer and animation supervisor. \u00a0The success of <em>Gumdam<\/em> made him a top animator in Japan, however he suddenly abandoned the status and decided to devote himself to making comic arts treating historical themes.<\/p>\n<p>Creators in the generation, who had grown in the 1960&#8217;s at the height of student movements, often educated themselves and cultivated \u00a0critical eyes toward the society in different ways of committing to the movements. \u00a0 On the other hand, it is equally a fact that student movements in that time had some vacant and silly aspects. \u00a0Yasuhiko respectively describes the scenes of the student movement in Hirosaki University with a sense of desperate stagnation, partly as his own mood in that time.<\/p>\n<p>In echoes of Yasuhiko&#8217;s experience, the story of Gumdum has a social philosophical theme as &#8220;desperate impossibility of mutual understanding among people.&#8221; \u00a0I, or a child born in 1976, just enjoyed building plastic models of Gumdum characters, without understanding the story.<\/p>\n<p>Reference: \u00a0\u5b89\u5f66\u826f\u548c\u30fb\u6589\u85e4\u5149\u653f\u300e\u539f\u70b9\u300f\uff08\u5ca9\u6ce2\u66f8\u5e97\u30012017\u5e74\uff09<\/p>\n<p>\uff3bE0009\/170706=J0015\uff3d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yasuhiko Yoshikazu is famous as the animator who designed the characters for Mobile Suite Gumdam. Readers of his autobiography titled\u00a0Genten (Original Point) should be surprised that his success as an animator is just peripheral in his life. 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