21 Facts About Yoshikazu Yasuhiko

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko is a Japanese animator, manga artist, and anime director.

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko is best known for being the character designer and animation director of the original Mobile Suit Gundam anime, which began in 1979.

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's manga have been critically acclaimed and have won numerous awards.

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko said seeing a superpower such as the US burn down a small country naturally made him "anti-American".

In September 1969, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko was arrested on suspicion of breaking and entering into Hirosaki University, and subsequently expelled.

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko has since admitted that he had no interest in animation and did not know what the job would entail, he simply applied to the newspaper advertisement on a whim in order to make a living.

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko later went freelance and worked on various anime productions for film and television.

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko said he had given up on manga because he was under the impression that manga artists had to use pens and he was personally unable to draw sufficiently with one.

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko turned Arion into an animated film that he directed and co-wrote in 1986.

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko serialized Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin for ten years, from 2001 to 2011.

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko stated that, in his mind, "Gundam" is only the original 1979 anime series and that it is the only one that he takes responsibility for.

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko further stated that the perpetrators of the Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995 were "undoubtedly familiar" with Gundam and the "Newtypes".

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko returned to animation in the 2010s to direct Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origins anime adaptations.

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko then created Ten no Ketsumyaku, about a student in Manchuria on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War, for Monthly Afternoon between January 2012 and September 2016.

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko began Inui to Tatsumi -Siberia Shuppei Hishi- in Monthly Afternoon on September 25,2018.

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko was honored with a special award for lifetime achievement at the 44th Japan Academy Film Prize in 2021.

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko received a lifetime achievement award at the 2022 film awards held by the Agency for Cultural Affairs.

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko stated that the 2022 film Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island, which he directed, would be his last work in animation.

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko goes through two or three brushes for a 30-page chapter.

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko said he does not know how to use white ink, so he inks around negative space that he leaves in.

Michael Toole of Anime News Network wrote that by defining the look of Gundams characters, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko defined the look of science fiction anime characters in the 1980s in general by extension.