By This article can be listened to as a podcast on the following media. Guests and Personality Guest: Asobizukuri Founded in 2018 in Tokyo by planner and marketer Akihiro Yamamoto and writer Kentaro Shimoda, this animation team focuses on the theme of “extending play by creating play.” Their creativity is characterized
Travel Notes of Naoki Matsuura: Afterword
This time, I had a recording session with animation director Matsuura. Through our conversation, his passion and philosophy for creation were deeply conveyed. I would like to delve further into his history, the way of thinking he has cultivated, and the background and production process of his independent work, “火づくり”.
Naoki Matsuura
Naoki MatsuuraActive as an animation director, director, and animation creator. Member of the Japan Animation AssociationBorn in Tokyo in 1982, currently residing in Kanagawa.Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Visual Communication in 2006. After working in production management at Polyphony Pictures, Production I.G, ROBOT, and others, he became independent.He
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