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This is a rough transcript of an interview with Yoshiyuki Sadamoto in 1997.
A subtitled interview with Sadamoto can be seen here.
Thank you very much. I hope you enjoy it.
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto Illustrations [Saturn] by Gainax
Digital art collection software by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, the character designer for Neon Genesis Evangelion and others.
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Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
1962 Born on January 29, in Tokuyama City (now Shunan City), Yamaguchi Prefecture
1984 Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University, Department of Fine Arts
Participated in the establishment of GAINAX in December of the same year
At the age of 22, worked as a character designer and art director for "Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise".
1989 “Nadia, The Secret of Blue Water” character design
1991 Serialized "R20" in Monthly Newtype Magazine
1992 "Uru in Blue" character design
1994 "Neon Genesis EVANGELION" started serialization in Monthly Shonen Ace.
Currently active in a wide range of fields including animation, comics, and illustration.
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Runal Saga
1991 Kadokawa Shoten Comp RPG series, Tabletop role-playing game (original work: Ryo Mizuno and Group SNE)
It was a game, and I had no idea that it was a game where items increased and so on.
There are also things like changing clothes in the story. I had a lot of trouble with the character design. The characters take off their armor, but I hadn't thought about how the characters would look without it.
It's a world where mechanics don't come into play very often.
It's not mechanical, it's metal. Is it aluminum, iron, gold, or silver? If it's a string, is it made of hemp or cotton?
It's not that I didn't like fantasy, it's just that I hadn't seen it before.
I think I studied a lot and saw a lot of things at that time.
I liked Erik the Viking, Jabberwock, and others.
It feels very real, and it's an interesting story about another world. I tried to make it with that in mind.
R20
1991 Kadokawa Shoten, serialized in Newtype Monthly, medium-length comic
I quite like the clear darkness, or something like that.
The mysteriousness of fluorescent lights at night, or when you just can't sleep at 2 a.m., and you wander into town on your motorcycle.
I think the mood I was in at that time was the mood of my youth.
There are a lot of 17-18 year old boys who dress up around Shibuya, aren't there?
I wonder if these people are really watching animation.
I wonder if they're watching the Nadia we made.
I made this work while actually meeting young people and being aware of what they were thinking.
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