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tatsunokofan
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Production I.G Purchasing Partial Ownership of Tatsunoko
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Hi all!
An interesting bit of news regarding Tatsunoko. Production I.G is going to be purchasing 11.2% of Takara's ownership of Tatsunoko. Production I.G shares a history with Tatsunoko, as the two founders of the studio, Mitsuhisa Ishikawa and Takayuki Goto, originally worked at Tatsunoko. When their studio was founded in 1987, it was originally called I.G Tatsunoko (The I.G standing for Ishikawa and Goto), and did a lot of work for the studio, and their studio is located literally a few blocks away from Tatsunoko.
How this purchase will affect both studios remains to be seen, but it will likely lead to closer collaborations between the two, as well as allowing Production I.G access to Tatsunoko's characters. Also, through Tatsunoko, Production I.G will now have access to the toy industry (Something Production I.G. currently lacks) thanks to the co-ownership of the studio with Takara.
It shoulkd also be noted that Mr. Ishikawa's wife, Michiru, is a daughter of Tatsunoko founder and Gatchaman creator Tatsuo Yoshida. The Yoshida family sold the controlling interest in the studio to Takara in 2005. So, in an indirect manner, the Yoshdia family is regaining more control over their family's studio.
James
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03-06-2010 17:42
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03-06-2010 18:04
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tatsunokofan
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Hi all!
| quote: | | BTW while we're talking "family", who exactly is Shoichi Yoshida? I noticed his name on a lot of 90s Tatsunoko work, and he's credited as the main supervisor in Tatsunoko vs Capcom. I just can't seem to find much info on him. |
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Unfortunately, I can't help too much with that. The information on Shoichi Yoshida I've been able to dig up is minimal at best. I can tell you that he seems to have started working in the animation industry in the 1980s at Anime Friend. The earliest credit I've been able to find for him is as a Production Assistant on the 1986 Outlanders OAV (As a subcontractor from Anime Friend). By 1989 he was working directly for Tatsunoko as a Production Supervisor on the remake of Honeybee Hutch. He has remained with Tatsunoko since then, mostly as a Producer.
While it is likely that he is a member of the Yoshida family that started Tatsunoko (As opposed to one of the millions of other Yoshida families in Japan), I could not find anything that said exactly who he is related to, only that he is not Tatsuo Yoshida's son. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd speculate that he is Ippei Kuri's son, mostly because of his work at Anime Friend, which was a studio created by Ippei Kuri. In case you were unaware, Ippei Kuri is a pen name, and his real name is Toyoharu Yoshida.
Sorry I can't be more help.
James
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05-06-2010 01:21
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