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Yoshiyuki Sadamoto Illustrations [Saturn] by Gainax #2

Mar 09, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33uw7WvceTA

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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Yoshiyuki Sadamoto Illustrations [Saturn] by Gainax #1 (Royal Space Force, Nadia)

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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