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Fred Ladd on Tetsuwan Atom.
“The show … put Japan on the map as an animation production country. And as soon as that hit, all of sudden, all over Tokyo, a hundred studios sprang up overnight.”
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Popy Jumbo Machinder Mazinger Z.
(See also.)
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Invincible Guardians of World Freedom.
“A Shogun Warriors comic ran for sixteen issues, courtesy of artist Herb Trimpe and writer Doug Moench.”
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Nagai Go interviewed.
“Even if they start out by imitating Japanese manga, they are still fundamentally children of their own cultures. … Eventually, they will produce something completely original … After all, Japanese manga was originally greatly influenced by American comics and Disney, so these things go around in cycle.”
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Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot.
(YouTube, 01:12. See also.)
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Kawamori Shoji interviewed.
“I was really into (British sci-fi puppet series) ‘Thunderbirds,’ but I didn’t want to build the plastic model kits from the store. If I did that, I would be the same as everyone else.” (See also.)
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Miyatake Kazutaka interviewed.
“I came across a poster by Robert McCall for 2001: A Space Odyssey, it really shook me looking at it. … I went to see the film … when I was 18. It really changed the direction of my life.”
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Aramaki Shinji interviewed.
“When I worked on Pole Position or Mask, I was still young (around 23-24). It was such a big advantage for me to have had an opportunity to work in America at that age.”
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Okawara Kunio interviewed.
“… my generation looked towards the designs done in the West and then get inspired and made into their own projects. Now those things we made are inspiring people in places like Hollywood and elsewhere. That’s really exciting.”
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Mecha Zone’s David White interviewed.
“My first robot toy was C3P0 from Star Wars. … I saw the Shogun Warriors cartoons not long after that: the Force Five series with Dragun, Grendizer, and Danguard Ace. That’s when my real passion for giant robots was ignited.” (See also.)
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