Yoshikazu Yasuhiko

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko (安彦良和, Yasuhiko Yoshikazu, born December 9, 1947) is a Japanese animator, manga artist, and director in the anime industry.

Yasuhiko at the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival

Born in Engaru, Hokkaidō, Yasuhiko dropped out of Hirosaki University and was hired by Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Productions in 1970 as an animator. He later went freelance and worked on various animation productions for film and television. He began working as a manga artist in 1979. In 1981 he won the Seiun Award in Art category. In 1992 he won the Japan Cartoonists Association Award, and in 2000, an Excellence Prize in manga for Ōdō no Inu at the Japan Media Arts Festival. He is also known as a novelist and science fiction illustrator. Some of his most notable works as character designer and director are Brave Reideen, Combattler V, and Mobile Suit Gundam. Less well known is the fact that he was the original character designer for the Dirty Pair, long before their first anime or manga appearance, when he was illustrating the Haruka Takachiho short stories that became the 1980 fixup novel Great Adventures of the Dirty Pair. He's also worked on the character designs for the video game, Vay.

In recent years he has branched out artistically, creating such works as Joan, a three-volume story of a young French girl living at the time of the Hundred Years' War, whose life parallels that of Joan of Arc; and Jesus, a two-volume biographical manga about the life of Jesus Christ.

Yasuhiko signs his artwork as "YAS".

Filmography

Television

Wandering Sun (Sasurai no Taiyō) (1971) (character design)
Zero Tester (1973) (Character Design)
Space Battleship Yamato (1974) (storyboards)
Brave Raideen (1975) (character design, animation director)
Wanpaku Omukashi Kum Kum (1975) (Screenplay, Original creator, Character Design, Animation director)
Combattler V (1976) (Character Design)
Robokko Beeton (1976) (Character Design, Animation director)
Zambot 3 (1977) (Character Design)
The Adventures of the Little Prince (TV series) (1978) (Character Design)
Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) (Character Design)
Shiroi Kiba White Fang Monogatari (1982) (Character Design, Animation director)
Giant Gorg (1984) (Chief Director, Storyboard (ep 1,4), Original creator, Character Design, Animation director)
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985) (Character Design)
Kaze to Ki no Uta SANCTUS -Sei naru kana- (1987) (Director, Storyboard)
Super Atragon (1995) (Character Design)
Strange+ (2014) (End credit illustration for episode 8)

OVA

Crusher Joe OAV (1989) (Character Design)
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (2009) (Original Character Design - did the illustrations for the original light novel)
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (2015) (Chief Director, Storyboard (eps 1-4), Original Manga, Character Design)

Film

Crusher Joe the Movie (1983) (Director, Script, Screenplay, Storyboard, Character Design, Animation director)
Arion (1986 - Director, Character Design)
Venus Wars (1989 - Original Story, Director, Character Design)
Mobile Suit Gundam F91 (1991) (Character Design)

Manga

Arion (1979–1984)
Kurd no hoshi
Nijiiro no Trotsky
Anton
Oudou no inu
Namuji
Zinmu
Venus Wars (1986–1990)
C kouto
Maraya
Joan (1995–1996)
Jesus (1997)
Waga nawa Nero (1998–1999)
Neo Devilman
Dattan typhoon
Nomi no Ou
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin
Alexandros

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References

External links

https://web.archive.org/web/20090119175508/http://yasuworld.hp.infoseek.co.jp/ (Japanese)
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko manga at Media Arts Database (in Japanese)
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko anime at Media Arts Database (in Japanese)
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

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