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6/19/2025, 4:50:58 AM
Scriptwork supervisor keiichi sato
>Born December 18th. His major directorial works include the movie "GANTZ:O", the live-action movie "Black Butler", the TV anime "TIGER & BUNNY" and "Sengai Daishikkaku". He is also active in a wide range of genres, including character design and live-action film direction.
>When did you come up with the idea for this project?
>After participating in "OVA Giant Robo", I went to America and was inspired by the cityscape, which was different from Japan, and I thought "It would be interesting if a robot stood here", so I drew a sketch and came up with the idea. At that time, Sunrise (now Bandai Namco Filmworks) approached me to do character design for "City Hunter Special". I thought Sunrise could also plan robot-related things, so I was introduced to the Sunrise Planning Department while working on "City Hunter Special Goodbye My Sweet Heart", so it must have been around 1996. However, it was difficult to handle it by myself, so I asked my friend Katayama Kazuyoshi. Katayama likes robots, and I thought Katayama would be the perfect person to create the stylish, retro-future-like program I was aiming for.
>--It seems that originally it was planned to be linked to toys.
>At the time, Izumi Katsuhiro, who was seconded from Bandai (now BANDAI SPIRITS), was in the planning department, and we heard that they were going to launch a new brand called "Soul of Chogokin" for adults, so we went ahead with the project to create a product that could be used for that purpose. Since it was for high-end use, I intuitively thought that I should make it something that could be displayed. I started out planning a robot with the image of something that would be placed in an antique study with chic items such as books, fountain pens, and oil lighters, shining black in indirect lighting. However, it was too much of an adult taste, and the reaction was, "Will this sell?" (bitter laugh).
>Born December 18th. His major directorial works include the movie "GANTZ:O", the live-action movie "Black Butler", the TV anime "TIGER & BUNNY" and "Sengai Daishikkaku". He is also active in a wide range of genres, including character design and live-action film direction.
>When did you come up with the idea for this project?
>After participating in "OVA Giant Robo", I went to America and was inspired by the cityscape, which was different from Japan, and I thought "It would be interesting if a robot stood here", so I drew a sketch and came up with the idea. At that time, Sunrise (now Bandai Namco Filmworks) approached me to do character design for "City Hunter Special". I thought Sunrise could also plan robot-related things, so I was introduced to the Sunrise Planning Department while working on "City Hunter Special Goodbye My Sweet Heart", so it must have been around 1996. However, it was difficult to handle it by myself, so I asked my friend Katayama Kazuyoshi. Katayama likes robots, and I thought Katayama would be the perfect person to create the stylish, retro-future-like program I was aiming for.
>--It seems that originally it was planned to be linked to toys.
>At the time, Izumi Katsuhiro, who was seconded from Bandai (now BANDAI SPIRITS), was in the planning department, and we heard that they were going to launch a new brand called "Soul of Chogokin" for adults, so we went ahead with the project to create a product that could be used for that purpose. Since it was for high-end use, I intuitively thought that I should make it something that could be displayed. I started out planning a robot with the image of something that would be placed in an antique study with chic items such as books, fountain pens, and oil lighters, shining black in indirect lighting. However, it was too much of an adult taste, and the reaction was, "Will this sell?" (bitter laugh).
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