#Ichiro Okouchi

[ericmicael]

After I found someone saying: "Idina Menzel is against Elsa being a lesbian", I found someone saying "Ōkouchi is against SuleMio" hahaha

#frozen 3 #elsa lesbian #idina menzel #gundam witch from mercury #ichiro okouchi #sulemio

[darthcontusion]

I remember when Okouchi was announced for G Witch and I watched the first episode and my first thought was "oh no i remember table kun he's going to be weird about this" and he was so fucking normal i'm really proud of him

#code geass #ichiro okouchi #g witch #gundam #mobile suit gundam #the witch from mercury

[danceofthephilos]

Ichiro Okouchi Interview (SK8 the Infinity Official Guide Book)

Skateboarding was the peak of fun.

Series Composition & Screenwriter Ichiro Okouchi*

*(though his name is romanized "Ohkouchi" in the book, I'm choosing to write it "Okouchi" as he is usually called in English-language sources.)

PROFILE

Screenwriter and novelist. He was in charge of the series composition and screenplays for major works such as Lupin the Third PART 5, Princess Principal, and Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, among others.

—First, how are you feeling now that episode 12 has finished airing?

FAN & FUN! In working on this series, I myself became a FAN of it, and it was a FUN series to create.

—Could you give us your honest impressions of what you thought when you heard the outline for the series?

When I heard it was an original work by Director Utsumi, I accepted right then. Utsumi-san's series have been so enjoyable to watch, after all. I only heard definitively that it was going to be a skateboarding anime after that. I had never ridden a skateboard before, but working with Utsumi-san was so appealing that I wasn't anxious in the slightest.

—Do you have any favorite episodes, or scenes that left an impression on you?

Episode 2 might be the one that made the most lasting impression on me. How I imagined episode 2 and the episode 2 the director wanted to create were different, so it was the episode that made me think, "Ah, it's this kind of series," and solidified the "image" of SK8 the Infinity in my heart. Thinking back on it, it was an important episode.

—Were there any episodes or behind-the-scenes developments that you hated to cut? (lit. "cut while crying")

There are! But, I can't say definitively that we won't use them in the future, so they're secret!

—Do you have a favorite character? Could you explain your reason why?

I like all of them, so it's difficult to single one out. Langa is dazzling, I love him. Reki, I understand your feelings! MIYA is a good kid who diligently worries about others. Shadow, I'm glad you grew up into a lovable character. Joe is an incredible adult, and if I were a woman I'd fall in love with him. Cherry Blossom might be the most pure-hearted. ADAM is the most incredible heel character, and elevated this work to the next level. Kikuchi, please keep supporting Ainosuke from now on!

—Could you tell us your impressions of the voice cast?

Of course everyone's performances were excellent, and the arrangement and balance of the youth and adult groups was wonderful too.

—Can you tell us about the appeal of skateboarding we felt in the series?

As the line in the series goes, "fun!" is what it's about. Not just when you're skating yourself, but talking to your friends, seeing your buddies' tricks, diligently practicing, and falling down are all fun. I interviewed all kinds of skaters, and it was striking how all of them made even the painful parts sound fun.

—Could you tell us any stories you would like to include in a spin-off?

I already wrote two spin-off scripts for the Blu-ray and DVD bonus CDs, so if possible, I'd like to write a continuation of the original work next.

—Do you have any anecdotes about Okinawa, the setting for the series?

The production staff and I all took our skateboards and went on a location hunt around Okinawa. It was spring, but it was already incredibly hot, and we had to scramble to buy hats. In that brightly saturated scenery, skateboarding was the peak of fun.

—If "S" opened in the real world, what part do you think you'd be most interested in?

I'd be happy to be an irresponsible spectator. But I'd at least like to try participating by Adam dragging me by the leg around a corner. (laughter)

—Can you send a message to all the fans who loved SK8 the Infinity?

Thank you so much for watching and loving SK8 the Infinity! The responses echoed stronger and stronger with each episode and filled all of us creators with strength. It was a work where we could feel the strength of everyone's support in a way that's only possible in this era of social media. I'm grateful!

(from SK8 the Infinity OFFICIAL GUIDE BOOK, released December 22nd 2021)

#sk8 #sk8 the infinity #ichiro okouchi #translation #sk8 official guidebook

[randomrichards]

SPY X FAMILY CODE: WHITE

To win a baking sale

Forgers go on vacation

Swallow states secrets

#spy x family #code white #random richards #poem #haiku #poetry #haiku poem #poets on tumblr #haiku poetry #haiku form #poetic #anime #japanese animation #loid forger #takuya eguchi #atsumi tanezaki #anya forger #yor forger #saori hayami #tatsuya endo #Ichiro okouchi #Takashi katagiri #Alex organ #megan shipman #Natalie van Sistine #bond forger #Kenichiro matsuda #Tyler Walker #Ben Philips #sylvia sherwood

[des-shinta]

Shinta Reviews: Code Geass Part 2: R1 sect

The utterly massive Code Geass Review continues with a discussion of the principle players, and R1's story events.

#Shinta reviews #Des Shinta #Code Geass #Sunrise #bandai namco #review #video review #anime review #Kamen rider #King-ohger #jun fukuyama #Ichiro Okouchi #Goro taniguchi #A certain magical index #raildex #tritagonist #Lelouch Vi britannia #Kallen Kozuki #Suzaku kururugi #Youtube

[haveyoureadthiscomic-poll]

#code geass #goro taniguchi #ichiro okouchi #majiko #bandai #bandai namco #bandai entertainment #manga #poll

[retro-friki]

I have the attention span of a very nervous squirrel which often results on me starting to read or watch stuff and then completely forgetting about it without even finishing it. I just remembered that I never finished reading the Utena light novels, and also that I was planing on watching Devilman Crybaby and writing about it after reading the manga. (I read the manga and watched a couple of episodes of Crybaby but didn't like how Ryo was changed, however I still think that I should watch the whole thing),

Anyway, I have been thinking of finally finishing the novels and the series and write about them eventually. On the other hand. Do I really want to metaphorically keep getting my face kicked by Ichiro Okouchi?

#tumblr polls #misc #utena #devilman crybaby #ichiro okouchi #half joking #you can check out my old devilman manga liveblogs #and the recaps of the first two chapters of the utena light novels #in my blog

[suzalulusource]

It's a relationship you can't describe in a word. To simply call it friendship isn't quite right. [...] It's impossible to describe it in a word, but it's a very strong bond. Lelouch as a kid, Lelouch in school, Lelouch as Zero -- only Suzaku sees all of it. Kallen, Nunnally, C.C., even -- none of them sees all of [Lelouch]. Playing together, running away, living, killing each other, even the knowledge of their having killed their own fathers. In terms of revealing who they are, only these two are completely naked. This is probably why the two of them were able to team up in the end.

Ōkouchi Ichirō in an interview for Continue vol. 42 (translation by Celiss Galvea)

#suzalulu #code geass #lelouch vi britannia #lelouch lamperouge #kururugi suzaku #suzaku kururugi #staff & cast quotes #okouchi ichiro

[recents]

is anyone else obsessed with suicidal characters who have had magical spells or curses put on them so that they can’t ever intentionally try to harm themselves no matter what. body just stops moving. or they’re immortal. and they feel trapped. furious. anyone else think about that situation. hello

#yeah no i stole this wholesale from suzaku kururugi code geass. thank you ichiro okouchi for my life #but it fits nicely into an original character i currently have #.

[md-guel]

it just occurred to me to back up my stock knowledge with some research

#guel etc #guel jeturk #guel even technically got kicked out of his pride lmao #when mogumo said he's basically like a lion ichiro okouchi was hell yeah i'll drink to that

[klug]

I'feel like I have to apologize for gwitch being my first Gundam but well.its not my first mecha I guess

#thank you(?) geass for being my first mecha #ichiro okouchi moment for sure #ramblings

[arbitrarygreay]

Okay, I can't just ignore this. Planetes is a hard science fiction manga and anime about a timeline where the Earth's geopolitical situations already deteriorate a lot by the early 2000s, WW3 happens, and people are regularly going to and working in orbit and on the moon by 2075. Planetes is pretty critically acclaimed! Both the manga and anime are award winning! The writing is quite conscientious about nuance and research and thinking seriously about how various systems make it unfair about the common man all across the globe. For example, for a global corporation working in space, it makes sense that the staff is equally global. We've got Americans, Russians, Chinese, Japanese, Indians, and English all working together on the same station. The aspects of living in space, in low-grav and no-grav, as well as the hazards of space walks, debris, and radiation, are all intricately detailed. Except we have a gigantic problem, demonstrated in the anime in episode 11. The story has set up this beautifully complex woman, Claire Rondo. In episode 11, we learn that she fled to the US as a child refugee from South America. She was illiterate at the time, so she doesn't know how to speak or read her native language. Her hard work ethic (determinedly climbing the management track) and very controlled demeanor speaks to a fear of falling back into poverty, which sometimes manifests as a disdain of lower class behavior. Nonetheless, she is drawn to the ideals and integrity of our blue collar protagonists. So far, so good, right? It gets better! In episode 11, she is confronted with a person who also fled the same country as a kid, just like her, but instead of remaining an expatriate, he returned as an adult to try and make things better for his native country, willing to battle international discrimination and classism in the process. Claire is forced to confront her own conflicted third culture kid feelings. This is great! Except, which South American country is this? Well, this is a world in which WW3 has obviously devastated the global south, so the expected areas of conflict have fractured into entirely new nations from what we know. So, what imaginary country will this well-researched, nuance-driven story come up with? Will it be a pidgin creole of Spanish, Portuguese, and English, or perhaps it will be a return to a local indigenous ethnicity? El Tanika. Featuring Lake Wagutchi. Has its own spoken AND written language, El Tanikan. Featuring such names as Caligan Parak, Sistero Tados, and Nurgan Ogran. This is a South American nation. And the most frustrating part is, no one else on the internet has apparently picked up on how this utterly undercuts the entire story, taking it from "well meaning empathy" to "staggeringly racist" in one fell swoop? Some people even cite 11 as their favorite episode, as incisive and powerful political analysis? "What if the Harry Potter books featured an entire arc centered on anti-Asian racism, but her name wasn't even Cho Chang, it was Zacki Gato, and she had immigrant feelings about not knowing her native language, Swatokaa? (developed and spread, including an entire writing system, from scratch within 4 decades)"

#planetes #category: anime #how on earth does someone put that much effort into every single other element of their story about international diversity #and then fuck it up with total exotifying THIS BAD? #forget the foot; this is shooting one's self in the goddamn torso with buckshot at point blank #maybe some of the more egregious names are anime-original; but the El Tanika part is in the manga #so Yukimura Makoto shares as much culpability for this nonsense as Okouchi Ichiro #the dissolution of Gran Colombia is RIGHT THERE if they wanted examples of what new South American nations would do for names and languages

[lamalamam]

the witch from mercury 🤝 code geass

(spoiler)

#turns out they're both written by ichiro okouchi. no wonder #lamaup show

[danceofthephilos]

Who founded S, and when?

In episode 4 of SK8's dub, Reki refers to Joe and Cherry as "founders" of S, and this has led to a pretty widespread conception in the English-speaking fandom that the two of them were... well, S's founders alongside Adam, that it started when the three of them were in school, that they're still involved in it on a managerial level, or even claims that they founded it first and Adam stole it after the fact.

But what is actually being said here?

It's the word "初期メンバー" that was translated as "founders" in the dub, and while it can mean "founding members", in a sense, there is no implication in the word 初期 of actively being involved in creating something, simply that they were the earliest members (it means "in the initial stage.")

Even more telling is Reki's use of みんな - he's talking about a larger group than two people here. He's not setting Joe and Cherry apart as "founders", he's counting everyone who skated at S at the beginning as "初期メンバー" and namedropping the two characters from that era whose names we know and who are going to be significant to the story. (This reference to "everyone" establishing that there's a larger group going unnamed is also cut from the dub; instead Reki says "Cherry, Joe... man, I bet they'd love to go off about that guy.")

Conversely, looking at how Adam is described...

...it's pretty straightforward.

He's also described in his profile on the official website (and consistently in other official sources that use these character profiles) as 創設者, which does mean founder, explicitly referring to "the person who first established something."

Cherry and Joe, meanwhile, are both referred to as Sの実力者のうちの1人, or "one of the big names at S." They're certainly both respected, influential people within the community - recognition they've earned, not something they're set apart for in any "official" capacity. They've never been described in an official source as 創設者, or in any other way that would indicate they were involved in S's creation rather than simply being two powerful people in the community as it exists now.

There are a few other details that tie into establishing this - mainly disproving the notion that Adam stole something already existing. In episode 5, as they're fleeing from the police, Tadashi says this...

...indicating that Crazy Rock was part of a regular police patrol route before Adam was able to use his money/influence to have it removed, something that Cherry and Joe (particularly years ago, when Cherry wouldn't have had the money he's earning now) would not have had the power to do.

And in episode 12, when discussing the change in course, Joe says this:

Literally saying "it became banned", this is wording on Joe's part that would make no sense for a decision he was involved in. He's describing this as something that happened totally separate from him. Early enough that the funeral course was still being used, Joe (and presumably also Cherry) were not making calls about the management of S like this.

There's also a relevant quote from SK8's screenwriter, Ichiro Okouchi:

When considering Adam as a character, I thought he would need someone beside him. If Kikuchi wasn't there, Adam would become a character who would do nothing but talk to himself, and it would be difficult for Adam to manage S alone.

(spoon.2Di, volume 72)

Part of Tadashi's entire conceptualization as a character was because without him, Adam would be running S alone. Early enough in the development in the series that Tadashi hadn't properly been created yet, S was imagined as something solely belonging to Adam.

Adam is S's founder; Joe and Cherry were simply in the initial group of members, along with other people who haven't yet been named.

Additionally, from only a few pieces of dialog it's possible to narrow down when Adam started S - and it wasn't during the DK era. When Joe interrupts Reki in episode 4, he says this:

Earlier in the same episode, Cherry says this:

And the two of them have this exchange at the beginning of episode 9:

Adam, Joe and Cherry are all 26 years old (25 going on 26, in Cherry's case; he hasn't actually had his birthday by the end of season 1, but this is normal for how ages are listed for anime characters.) Seven years ago would have been the end of their last year of high school (Adam, as the oldest of the three of them, would have turned 19 just over a month after graduating high school.)

When Adam skated with Joe and Cherry was seven years ago, before he left for America, and he hasn't accepted any of their challenges since he returned to Japan. In Joe's words, this time skating together was "way before S started."

So, all together:

For some time in high school, Adam, Joe and Cherry all skated together as a group (sometimes with some other friends/gang members.) Seven years before SK8 season 1 takes place, Adam was sent away to America by his father, ending his friendship with Joe and Cherry. Some time after that (presumably upon his father's death,) he returned to Japan and founded S with Tadashi to assist him in managing it, using his influence to remove the abandoned mine from regular police patrols to protect it, and Joe and Cherry were among a larger initial group of skaters who competed at the time. Since then, he's never agreed to a beef with Joe or Cherry despite them challenging him many times, so neither of them have skated with him since S started.

TL;DR - Adam is the person who started S and he and Tadashi were always conceptualized as the only people running it, and the idea that Adam, Joe and Cherry founded it as a trio comes from a mistranslation in the dub.

#sk8 #sk8 the infinity #sk8 meta #adam sk8 #ainosuke shindo #kaoru sakurayashiki #kojiro nanjo #dk trio

[hailarabbit281]

Shirlulu hints from Lelouch of the Rebellion Exhibition Pamphlet Book

I don't know Japanese so it's done by all Google Translate. If anyone knows Japanese and would like to translate these, please feel free to do so

SHIRLEY FENETTE

Pretty and lively. Although she is busy with both the swimming club and the student council, her eyes are always fixed on Lelouch. She notices the dangerous expression he sometimes shows, and no matter what difficulties she faces, her feelings for him always win out in the end.

好きという気持ちは強制されて成立するものではない。分かってはいる。だけどカップル認定してもらえるのなら、誰もが思 いを寄せる人の元へ走るのではないか。ミレイによって開かれた「キューピッドの日」。シャーリーはルルーシュを追った。彼 のいそうな場所へ･･････。そして2人はとても自然に、イベント内でカップルとなった。

Feelings of love cannot be forced. Everyone knows that. But if they could be recognized as a couple, wouldn't everyone run to the person they have a crush on? Milly held "Cupid's Day." Shirley followed Lelouch. To the place where he was likely to be... And the two of them became a couple very naturally during the event.

Personal note: I like how it's obvious to the student body and very natural/expected for them to become a couple. There are always these cases where two people evidently care about each other enough for everyone around to think "It wouldn't be a surprise if they started dating any time soon", and Lelouch and Shirley is one example of such cases, showing that Shirley's feelings were definitely not one-sided at all.

死ぬな、死ぬなっ!

いつもそばにいた。平和な世界の象徴だった。疎 ましく思ったこともある。だけどそれは、本当に心 を許せる相手だったから。ありのままでいられる 相手だった。代わりの存在などどこにもいない。 目の前で消えていくその声を、姿をただ、見てい ることしかできなかった。ギアスは命を奪ってい く。大切な人を奪っていく。

Don't die, don't die!

She was always by his side. She was a symbol of a peaceful world. There were times when he felt lonely, but that was because she was someone he could truly open up to. She was someone he could be himself with. There is no replacement for her. All he could do was to watch her voice and figure disappearing before his eyes. Geass takes away lives. Taking away someone important to you.

ギアスのためにシャーリーを失った悲しみがルルーシュの中で憎悪へ変換さ れ、その矛先がギアス嚮団に向けられた。

Lelouch's grief over losing Shirley to Geass transformed into hatred, and he directed that hatred at the Geass Order.

The script writer direction of the work

Script by Ichiro Okouchi

I had decided to make the main character of my new show a cool hero.

He has supernatural powers, is full of talent, and has a great appearance. A super character who seems to have the whole world in his hands.

But even though he has everything, he can't get the things that are close to him that everyone else can have.

I wrote Lelouch as a boy with such a curse.

He has the absolute power of Geass, and is a great villain who has access to organizations, military power, power, and eventually even the world.

But he can't get small human happiness - friendship, family, or a lover. He has access to everything else.

But in the end, he gets friendship and a family.

In exchange for his life...

That was the character of Lelouch that I had in mind when I first started planning the show.

I worked on the character with the director and many other staff members, and it took the form of an animation.

How did it reach you all?

The trajectory of Lelouch exhibited here exceeded my initial imagination, becoming much more expansive and richer, almost like the life of a single person.

I believe this exhibition will not be complete until all of you who know Lelouch have seen it.

Thank you all for coming to see Lelouch this time.

I hope to be able to repay this gratitude by one day appearing before you all in person.

CODE GEASS Lelouch of the Rebellion

Personal note: In the OG anime series, Shirley is the only one that becomes Lelouch 's girlfriend after the Cupid Day event (if you listen to the outro of R2 Ep12, you will hear Lelouch trying to balance his Zero acitivies and planning out his date with Shirley at the same time). Lelouch has always taken Shirley's feelings seriously, and that's why he erased her love for him in R1 ( to relieve her of the pain he had caused her for killing her father) and then in R2, he didn't want to let Shirley take his hat at first out of fear of getting her involved in his shit again.

I have always taken Lelouch's vehement "NO!" when Shirley accused him of not being serious when he said that he liked her as him admitting that he liked her, just that he was being weighed down by many dangerous things to properly reciprocate her feelings. But Lelouch gave in to Shirley's straightforward sincerity, accepted Shirley's feelings and his own feelings as well at the end of the Cupid Day event.

And guess what, Shirley was taken away from him immediately in the next episode. And it's clearly the intention of the script writer: Lelouch seemed to have the whole world in his hands, seemed to have everything, except for the little normal happiness like friendship, family, or a lover. In the end, he got friendship (Suzaku) and family (Nunally), in exchange for his life. Notice that the "lover" part is still missing? Because Shirley is gone...

#code geass #shirley fenette #lelouch lamperouge #shirlulu #lulushir #Lelouch

[demifiendrsa]

Kaiju No. 8 TV anime - Teaser PV #3 (with English captions)

Kaiju No. 8 TV anime will premiere in April 2024.

Key visual

Cast additions

Fairouz Ai as Kikoru Shinomiya

Kengo Kawanishi as Soshiro Hoshina

Previous announced cast members

Masaya Fukunishi as Kafka Hibino/Kaiju No. 8

Wataru Katoh as Reno Ichikawa

Asami Seto as Mina Ashiro

Staff

Original Creator: Naoya Matsumoto

Director: Shigeyuki Miya & Tomomi Kamiya

Series Composition & Screenplay: Ichiro Okouchi

Character Designer & Chief Animation Director: Tetsuya Nishio

Kaiju Design: Mahiro Maeda

Art Director: Shinji Kimura

Color Design: Izumi Hirose

3DCG Director: Masaru Matsumoto

Director of Photography: Eiji Arai

Editor: Aya Hida

Sound Director: Fumiyuki Goh

Music: Yuta Bandoh

Kaiju Supervision (Design & Artworks): Studio khara

Animation Production: Production I.G

#Kaiju No. 8 #Kn8 #Production I.G #Studio khara #anime #TV anime