#Sushio assistant series#

There, he showed his talent in what would become his speciality: effects animation, especially smoke and explosions. After that, his first key animation works were on five of the episodes Gainax animated on Victory Gundam. Even though he was just out of animation school, he took an important role in the pre-production stage of the never-completed Uru in Blue project in 1993. His career began as an assistant to his elder brother Kô then he officially started out as in-betweener for studio Madhouse in 1992, but quickly transferred to Gainax, where he began to make his mark as one of the studio’s rising stars. He had always had more of a liking for Masahito Yamashita, but one of his specificities is his openness to new things: his influences had always been diverse, as he very closely followed the new creative boom around Mitsuo Iso, Shin’ya Ohira and Masaaki Yuasa in the early-mid 90’s. The oldest of the bunch is Yoshinari, and he also appears to be the least inspired by Kanada.

Its foremost members form the trio now strongly associated with studio Trigger: Yô Yoshinari, Hiroyuki Imaishi, and Sushio. These would go on to be called the “Neo-Kanada” school. Just as Kanada-style animation was withering all over, KareKano became a formidable space for experimentation, bringing to the fore a new generation of animators from Gainax.

#Sushio assistant series#

But another thing happened in 1998: the broadcast of a TV series produced by studio Gainax, His and Her Circumstances. In the context of the general decline, if not total disappearance, of the creativity of Kanada-style animation in most productions, it felt like the ground had been given up to newer generations. On the one hand, it was when Yoshinori Kanada himself left Japan-and, with it, the anime industry proper-for Hawaii and games development. This article is part of the History of the Kanada School seriesġ998 was one of the most important years in the history of the Kanada school. Cover image: a layout from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, by Jun Arai