toco toco - Season 1 Episode 17 Shichiro Kobayashi, Japanese animation art director
In this episode, a Japanese animation legend, Shichiro Kobayashi who worked on more than a hundred animes as an art director and production designer is taking us to Akiruno-shi, situated at one hour from Tokyo. We will first take a walk along the Akigawa river, and then we will go to Shichiro Kobayashi's atelier where he keeps all his amazing illustrations and paintings.
Higashi-Akiruno represents very well the charming japanese countryside. Along the Akigawa river, you will find nature and peace.
When he was a child, Shichiro Kobayashi use to look at the river for hours imagining all sorts of things. This is simply where all its creativity comes from: Nature.
While sketching, he tells us about his childhood and his passion of drawing that became a career at the age of 30 when color television was taking its first steps.
Then, Shichiro Kobayashi takes us to his atelier where he lets its creativity express itself on the paper. For forty years, he worked on famous anime such as Nobody's boy: Remi, Gamba no Boken, Treasure island, Aim for the Ace!, Cobra, Angel's Egg, Berserk, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Ashita no Joe, Nodame Cantabile, and many more.
First Air Date: Dec 26, 2014
Last Air date: Jun 01, 2019
Season: 3 Season
Episode: 74 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
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Popularity: 13.496
Language: Japanese
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