Yoshitoshi Abe ( 安倍 吉俊 , Abe Yoshitoshi , born August 3, 1971) , also stylized as yoshitoshi ABe , is a Japanese graphic artist who works predominantly in anime and manga . He first gained fame for his work on the avant-garde anime Serial Experiments Lain . He is also responsible for the concept and character design for the series NieA_7 . He is the creator of the dōjinshi Haibane Renmei , which was also adapted into an anime.
9-610: He is a colleague and friend of Chiaki J. Konaka , with whom he collaborated on the series Serial Experiments Lain and Texhnolyze . He usually uses the romaji form of his name instead of the kanji , with the "B" in "ABe" capitalized, as a reminder of his early works, for which he used the pen name "AB". Abe began his career as a teen in Tokyo and was first recognized as a graffiti artist , who regularly got into legal problems with his art. His concepts for all his later works are said to be inspired by this time of his life and has projected
18-570: A dark theme into his anime character designs . He is known to be a fairly tech-savvy manga artist, drawing a sketch with just his finger and an application on an iPad . He released self-published dōjinshi on digital support bypassing the traditional print publishers with Pochiyama at the Pharmacy in 2008 aimed at iPhone and iPod Touch and I am an Alien, I have a Question in 2010 for Kindle . On November 11, 2011, Abe married artist Sasaki Yukari, his manga assistant since 2010. Their daughter
27-455: A divide among the fandom. Kazunori It%C5%8D Kazunori Itō ( 伊藤 和典 , Itō Kazunori , born December 24, 1954) is a Japanese anime screenwriter and artist who is well known for his work in the .hack franchise and his writing for the 1995 Ghost in the Shell movie . Itō supervised the writing for the novel, .hack//Another Birth which was written by his student, Miu Kawasaki. He
36-525: The age of 10, influenced by his parents' love for movies and the wide range of film genres he experienced as a child. Konaka gave himself the middle initial "J", evoking the Christian name "John", due to him being born to parents who were members of the Anglican Church , but he does not identify as Christian. He began using the middle initial at the age of 12, when he started making 8 mm films , patterning
45-559: The cast of the show being confronted by a physical manifestation of " political correctness " that uses " cancel culture " as an attack. This brought attention to his blog meant for retrospective commentary on Digimon Tamers , in which he also discussed conspiracy theories, and sparked international controversy among Internet Digimon circles. In response, Konaka posted a statement in English addressed to his overseas fans on August 8, 2021, to explain his circumstances and to apologize for triggering
54-579: The early episodes of Digimon Tamers was based on one of the original scripts by Chiaki and Kazuya Konaka for Gamera: Guardian of the Universe in 1995 before the final draft by Kazunori Itō . Konaka brothers' plot was later used for Digimon Tamers and Gamera the Brave in 2006. In 2021, Konaka wrote a stage drama for Digimon Tamers' 20th anniversary that was performed at DigiFes 2021, an official Digimon event held annually on August 1. The drama featured
63-574: The style after Western names such as Charles M. Schulz . Following this, he received a camera of his own, and by middle school finished a film called Invader . Upon entering Seikei High School [ ja ] , Konaka joined the school's film club where he met Makoto Tezuka who was his senior. His films during this period adopted largely science-fiction themes, and it wasn't until watching The Exorcist and The Legend of Hell House that he began to garner an interest in horror. While working in special effects after graduating college, Konaka
72-418: Was born on September 21, 2012. Chiaki J. Konaka Chiaki J. Konaka ( 小中 千昭 , Konaka Chiaki , born April 4, 1961) is a Japanese writer and novelist. He was the head writer of anime series such as Serial Experiments Lain , Digimon Tamers , and Hellsing , as well as the television drama Ultraman Gaia . Konaka was born in Tokyo, Japan on 4 April 1961. His interest in filmmaking began at
81-544: Was offered his first scriptwriting job on Teruyoshi Ishii 's 1988 Japanese horror film Jaganrei [ ja ] . This served as a starting point for working on future projects. He has previously worked as a screenwriting instructor at The Film School of Tokyo [ ja ] . Konaka's serious works generally have a dark, psychological tone. As a Cthulhu Mythos writer, he tends to add Lovecraftian elements to his works. He has cited Ghost Hound as his favorite screenwriting project. The story-line of
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