- Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
, born
December 9 ,1947 ) is a well-knownanimator andmangaka in theanime industry.Yasuhiko dropped out of
Hirosaki University and was hired byOsamu Tezuka 'sMushi Productions in 1970 as an animator. He later went freelance and worked on various animation productions for film and television. In 1981 he won theSeiun Award in Art category. He began working as amanga artist in 1988. In 1992 he won the Nippon Mangaka Kyokai (Japan Cartoonists Society) Award, and in 2000, an Excellence Prize in manga for "Ōdō no ku" at theJapan 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 theDirty Pair , long before their first anime or manga appearance, when he was illustrating theHaruka Takachiho short stories that became the 1980fixup novel "Great Adventures of the Dirty Pair".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 ofJoan of Arc ; and "Jesus", a two-volume biographical manga about the life of Jesus Christ.Yasuhiko signs his artwork as "YAS".
Animated works
*"
Wandering Sun " ("Sasurai no Taiyō") (1971) (character design)
*"Zero Tester " (1973) (Character Design)
*"Space Cruiser 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" (1978) (Character Design)
*"Mobile Suit Gundam " (1979) (Character Design)
*"Shiroi Kiba White Fang Monogatari" (1982) (Character Design, Animation director)
*"Crusher Joe the Movie" (1983) (Director, Script, Screenplay, Storyboard, Character Design, Animation director)
*"Giant Gorg " (1984) (Chief Director, Storyboard (ep 1,4), Original creator, Character Design, Animation director)
*"Arion (anime) " (1986 - Director, Character Design)
*"Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam " (1986) (Character Design)
*"Kaze to Ki no Uta SANCTUS -Sei naru kana-" (1987) (Director, Storyboard)
*"Venus Wars " (1989 - Original Story, Director, Character Design)
*"Crusher Joe OAV" (1989) (Character Design)
*"Mobile SuitGundam F-91 " (Character Design)
*"Super Atragon " (1995) (Character Design)Manga works
*"Arion"
*"Kurd no hoshi"
*"Nijiiro no Trotsky"
*"Anton"
*"Oudou no inu"
*"Namuji"
*"Zinmu"
*"Venus Wars"
*"C kouto"
*"Maraya"
*"Joan"
*"Jesus"
*"Waga nawa Nero"
*"Neo Devilman"
*"Dattan typhoon"
*"Nomi no Ou"
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*"Alexandros"
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