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Interview: Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us Character Designer Shizue Kaneko

by Kim Morrissy & Callum May, Mar 16th 2019

It'd be difficult to overstate the importance of a great character designer on any anime. Not only are they responsible for creating the aesthetic and style of the characters themselves, but it's also their job to ensure that the designs can be effectively animated. To learn more about the process and ideas that go into creating characters, we reached out to Shizue Kaneko.

Shizue Kaneko has worked in the anime industry as both a key animator and character designer, starting out at Shin-Ei Production. Since then, she has designed characters for Doraemon: Nobita and the New Steel Troops - Angel Wings, Monster Strike: The Movie, How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord, and most recently, Pokémon the Movie: The Power of Us.

What made you want to become an animator?

I've liked drawing pictures ever since I was a child. There weren't many toys in my house, so I would often draw pictures on the back of newspaper advertisements. I didn't go to school much, but I would just draw pictures (albeit scribbles). I was told that my family couldn't pay the fees, so I could only go once every few months, but my art teacher in high school taught me how to use tools for drawing pictures and sketches, and I would study while aiming to pass the entrance exam for art school. Because it costs money to take an entrance exam, I failed to get into the one university that I applied for, but it was a good experience because it was my first time having something to strive for.

After I graduated from high school, I looked around and studied advertisement design at a free class at a professional development school. I was juggling a part-time job while doing this, and as I was looking at job magazine thinking that I needed to find employment soon, I saw a recruitment call for animators. They didn't ask about experience so I applied, at which point I was told that if I wouldn't be hired if I didn't have experience or hadn't gone to a school and couldn't immediately go to work. So I saved up some money and went to a school with cheap fees and a short enrollment period.

From there, I got a job at Shinei Animation, the company that is the successor to A Production. I didn't want to become an animator so much as get a job drawing pictures that would earn me money. After I joined the company I wondered about what I wanted to do. Honestly, my hope was to become a director.

Is there a particular artist or anime that you believe influenced your work?

When I was a student, I often read the manga of Katsuhiro Otomo, which my brother owned. I also got introduced to Osamu Tezuka's manga through Buddha and various other works, which I read through the school library and the assembly hall. After I joined Shinei Animation, I got influenced by Tsutomu Shibayama and Eiichi Nakamura, who are the director and animation director of Doraemon respectively. But I think that the good ...

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2019-03-15/pokemon-the-movie-the-power-of-us-character-designer-shizue-kaneko/.144267

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ATTACK ON TITAN UPDATE!

Attack on Titan season 3 is due to return in April 2019 with episode 13. The exact date has yet been announced.

Once the show comes back from its long hiatus, we can expect episodes to go up weekly every Sunday at 2:00 PM ET/11:00 AM PT on Funimation, Hulu, and Crunchyroll as a simulcast, as normal.

In the mean time, the team behind Attack on Titanhas released an early teaser trailer for the second half of the season!

https://www.denofgeek.com/us/culture/attack-on-titan/265790/attack-on-titan-season-3-release-date-trailer-episode-guide-news

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ONE PUNCH MAN AIRS ON APRIL 2019

One-Punch Man Season 2 Anime's New Video Previews JAM Project Song

posted on 2019-03-19 12:02 UTC-8 by Rafael Antonio Pineda

Anime premieres on April 2, with Hulu-exclusive simulcast stream beginning on April 9

The official website for the One-Punch Man anime revealed a new promotional video for the anime's second season on Tuesday, and Bandai Namco Arts is also streaming an English-subtitled version. The video previews JAM Project's opening theme song "Seijaku no Apostle" (The Silent Apostle; Note: The English-subtitled video gives the song's English title as "Uncrowned Greatest Hero").

The anime will premiere with a television special on TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, and TV Aichi on April 2. Viz Media will start streaming the first subtitled episode as a Hulu exclusive on April 9, "the same day as Japanese broadcast." The anime's website describes the April 2 airing in Japan as the "broadcast premiere commemorative special." Viz Media stated that "details and availability in the U.S. are currently unavailable" for the April 2 special announced in Japan.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-03-19/one-punch-man-season-2-anime-new-video-previews-jam-project-song/.144713

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Yoon deserves so much more than what he’s been given.

If you don’t agree, FIGHT ME.

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I am deceased 😂😂

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Yoon is the mother in this group, he deserves much more than he gets

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This made me laugh way too much 😂😂

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A second PV for the “One Punch Man” S2 anime has been released. Broadcast begins April 2nd with a special commemorative program.

-Staff-

Director: Chikara Sakurai

Series Composition: Tomohiro Suzuki

Character Design: Chikashi Kubota

Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami

Music: Makoto Miyazaki

OP Theme: JAM Project

ED Theme: Makoto Furukawa

PV2: https://youtu.be/NezvLw2gRAY

Studio: J.C.STAFF

-New Cast-

Suiryu (CV: Masaya Matsukaze)  

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