Sunday SpotlightKatie BairMasashi IshihamaHideyuki KurataKoji MasunariYuki MatsukuraJohn Oppliger
Apr 17th 2005 R.O.D. Staff Who they are: Masashi Ishihama (Character designer, animation director) Koji Masunari (Director) Yuki Matsukura (Producer) Hideyuki Kurata (Story, original creator, screen writer) What they've done: Read or Die (OAV), R.O.D. the TV Quotable: (Ishihama) "Basically, they asked me to create a story with a female spy character, and I was told that it could be as original as I wanted to make it. I let my imagination go and this is what I created; glasses, books, lamp posts, action, pigeons, white doves..." |
John Oppliger Who he is: Ask John columnist, licensing king at AN Entertainment, subtitle editor, and a self-professed anime nerd What he's done: DVD Producer, subtitle script editor: Risky Safety, Miami Guns Writer of 1070(!) Ask John columns Quotable: "It'll probably sound pitiful, but I think my anime alter-ego is the Henma Ikimono from Di Gi-Charat, literally the "strange thing." It's a yellow bear-like animal that simultaneously seems happy, confused, sad, and angry." |
Katie Bair Who she is: Published comic book artist, cosplay genius What she's done: Creator: Oasis Destiny Co-author: Ninja High School Owner, maintainer, and guru of Katie Bair's Petting Zoo and Art Emporium Quotable: "I look forward to the trickier [wig] designs, as if it's a competition of my skills versus the character designer. Sometimes we joke that they are making characters with sillier and sillier hair styles to try to foil me, but they haven't beat me yet!" |
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