
He also criticized a movie in the exhibition that showed a picture of the Emperor of Japan being burned and then stomped underfoot, he referred to it as "indistinguishable from a certain country's style of propaganda". The statue was first installed by its creators in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul as a form of political protest. On August 9, 2019, Sadamoto criticized on Twitter a statue featured in the “After ‘Freedom of Expression’?” historical art exhibition at the Aichi Prefecture Museum of Art, Statue of Peace (2011), by Kim Seo-kyung and Kim Eun-sang memorializing Comfort Woman, girls who worked in wartime brothels in World War II for the Japanese military.

Dick but apologized "These are all deceased people, sorry." Controversy I am unfamiliar with these worlds so it would be too difficult to show the actual plays." When asked about dream collaborations he revealed an interest in working with Robert Westall and Philip K. For example, I could not draw a medical manga because it’s impossible for me to make a lie about medicine. "In general, I don’t want to draw something that I have to study further in order to draw. In a 2013 interview with Japanese Entertainment website Nihongogo, it was revealed that Sadamoto is a stickler for details and wouldn't feel comfortable illustrating anything too unfamiliar to him. He guesses, "A too excellent person might despair in the group work".

However, he thinks that only Miyazaki completely mastered a genuinely superior animation technique at present. When Otsuka met the three men, he seems to have felt that he was taking off his hat to them at once.

The other two are Sadao Tsukioka who became a visual creator, and award-winning director Hayao Miyazaki. He also collaborated with director Mamoru Hosoda to provide character designs for the films The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, and Wolf Children.Īccording to Yasuo Otsuka, who guided Sadamoto as a newcomer, there are only three people whom he regarded as more skillful than himself that he has met during his career. The official manga adaptation of Evangelion, published between 19, was fully written and illustrated by Sadamoto. His first assignment as a character designer for Gainax was the film Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise, released in 1987, he continued to design characters for Gainax with the series Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, Neon Genesis Evangelion, FLCL, and Diebuster. When Gainax was originally founded as Daicon Film, Sadamoto served as animator on the second animated project, the Daicon IV opening animation.

Yoshiyuki Sadamoto ( 貞本 義行, Sadamoto Yoshiyuki, born January 29, 1962, in Tokuyama (now Shunan), Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese character designer, manga artist, and one of the founding members of the Gainax anime studio. Sample of Sadamoto's art, featuring Rei Ayanami of Neon Genesis Evangelion
