Masaaki Yuasa: Anime Project Sketches 1992–2014

Masaaki Yuasa, 400 full-color pages. The origins of imagination.Masaaki Yuasa is the genius animation director acclaimed both in Japan and internationally for works such as “Inu-Oh”, “The Tatami Galaxy”, “Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!”. This valuable full-color sketchbook contains approximately 900 sketches, dating from the director’s twenties, that can be said to show the origins of his work. Detailed commentary by the director himself is also included! This book is the long-awaited reprinted edition of “Masaaki Yuasa Sketchbook for Animation Projects”, a sketchbook packed with the secrets of these creations and containing the origins of Masaaki Yuasa, the genius animation director of numerous masterpieces, such as animation features “Inu-Oh”, “The Night is Short, Walk On Girl”, television anime “The Tatami Galaxy”, “Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!”, and “Ping Pong THE ANIMATION”, and the Netflix streaming anime series “DEVILMAN crybaby” and more, whose name is now known around the world after his work “Lu Over the Wall” won The Cristal Award, the highest honor at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.This comprehensive collection includes approximately 900 color sketches for “Crayon Shin-chan”, “Chibi Maruko-chan Movie: My Favorite Song”, “Cat Soup”, “Mind Game”, “Kemonozume”, “Happy Machine”, “Kaiba”, “The Tatami Galaxy”, “Kick-heart” and more, including precious character designs and worldview settings, drawn over a period of more than 20 years, starting from when Yuasa was in his twenties before his directorial debut, along with detailed commentary from the director himself!  Read more