- Shun'ichi Yukimuro
Shun'ichi Yukimuro (雪室 俊一 "Yukimuro Shun'ichi", born
January 11 ,1941 ,Yokohama , Kanagawa,Japan ) is a veteran screenwriter for televisionanime series. During a career spanning some four decades, Yukimuro has written over 3,000 TV anime scenarios, including episodes of many classic series produced by theToei Animation studio. After attending a school for screenwriters, Yukimuro won an award early in his career for a television drama titled "Chikagorono Wakai Yatsu". He soon began to focus on writing for television anime, of which his first was "Yokocho Seigitai (Justice Guardian)" in 1964.Among the anime series for which Yukimuro wrote scenarios include "
Kimba the White Lion ", "Sally, the Witch ", "Gegege no Kitaro ", "Sazae-san ", "Tomorrow's Joe ", "Himitsu no Akko-chan ", "Babel II ", "Majokko Megu-chan ", "Dr. Slump ", "Honey Honey", "The Kabocha Wine ", "Dragon Ball", "The Adventures of Pepero ", and "Azuki-chan ".Yukimuro was also the creator of the internationally popular
manga series "Ohayō! Spank ", which was turned into an anime byTokyo Movie Shinsha in 1981, for which he received theKodansha Manga Award forshōjo in 1981.cite web | url=http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/kodansha.shtml | author=Joel Hahn | title=Kodansha Manga Awards | work=Comic Book Awards Almanac | accessdate=2007-08-21]References
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* [http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~zs2t-ikhr/midori/yukirev/intro-e.htm/ Shun'ichi Yukimuro tribute page] , including a list of every anime on which he worked, current to 2003
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