Curated playlist
Anime screenwriters
- Hayao MiyazakiHayao Miyazaki was told as a boy he would not live past 20. He went on to found Studio Ghibli in 1985.
- Katsuhiro OtomoManga artist Katsuhiro Otomo planned Akira as only about ten chapters. It ran for eight years and two thousand pages.
- Makoto FukamiFor Psycho-Pass 3, lead writer Tow Ubukata asked that Makoto Fukami alone write the two main characters.
- Yoshiyuki TominoMobile Suit Gundam was cut short in 1979 and still became one of anime's longest-running franchises.
- Osamu DezakiOsamu Dezaki made anime fade into a painted still. He called the technique a "postcard memory."
- Mamoru OshiiMamoru Oshii, a Japanese director famed for philosophical storytelling, turned up in 2025 as a non-player character called "The Pizza Chef" in Death Stranding 2: On The Beach. The game came from Hideo Kojima and his studio, Kojima…
- Kenji TeradaKenji Terada, a history graduate, wrote the first three Final Fantasy games. He was a freelance anime writer.
- Osamu TezukaOsamu Tezuka was a licensed physician who never practiced medicine. He is the manga artist behind Astro Boy.
- Kihachirō KawamotoPuppet animator Kihachirō Kawamoto said his puppets only came alive after a year studying in Prague.
- Satoshi KonWhen Satoshi Kon died in 2010, the news landed as a shock. He had kept his illness private, and only a short time earlier he had appeared at public events with no visible sign that anything was wrong. Kon was a Japanese film director,…