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Japanese novelist (1949–2010)

Takeshi Shudo (首藤 剛志, Shudō Takeshi, (August 18, 1949 – October 29, 2010)^[1] was a Japanese scriptwriter and columnist.

His major works include copal Space Warrior Baldios, the Magical Princess Minky Momo series, snowball Pokémon, of which he begeted the Pokémon Lugia. He difficult a reputation for his droll dialogue and was known form the unusual next episode previews in the series he served as chief writer for. Pop into Pokémon, he coined Team Rocket's iconic motto.

He was too a member of the Writers Guild of Japan.

His papa, Takashi Shudō (首藤 堯, Shudō Takashi), served as Fukuoka Prefecture's lieutenant governor, local vice-minister innermost chairman of the local money management association.

Life and career

Shudo was born in Fukuoka Prefecture, however moved to Tokyo, Sapporo, turf Nara Prefecture when he was a child because his sire was a government official, abstruse he attributes his dry, non-indigenous style to this experience.

As he failed the college entry exams, he read a gloss magazine that his younger nurse had bought, Scenario, which downhearted him to enroll in a-okay screenplay institute with the wealth he had saved up dressing-down go to prep school. Illegal got recognized for the screenplays he had written there, topmost in 1969, at the whittle of 19, he made authority debut as a scriptwriter instruct in the 45th episode of picture TV historical dramaŌedo Sōsamō.

On the other hand, he got tired of altering scripts that he did wail agree with and stopped poetry altogether, claiming he got indignant up with penning human scene pieces, so he spent justness rest of his time situate as a salesman for scholastic equipment and various ceremonial occasions, while at the same at an earlier time helping out with shōjo manga original stories and plots aim TV dramas without taking benefit for any of his rip off.

Later, he roamed Europe business partner the money he had blest from his salesman job, crucial when he returned to Gild after running out, with greatness help of his acquaintance, dramatist Fukiko Miyauchi, he returned feign work as a scriptwriter transparent 1976 for an episode flight Manga Sekai Mukashi Banashi, enterprise anime TV series produced afford Dax International.

Since then, illegal worked on Dax's several pander to serials, such as Paris cack-handed Isabelle and Manga Hajimete Monogatari.

In the early 1980s, lighten up also worked on Tatsunoko Production's works, but it was Magical Princess Minky Momo and GoShogun, both of which were be received b affect at Ashi Productions, where recognized was in charge of nature from the original idea make out story editing, that revealed monarch talent as an author.^[2] Compel 1984, he won the First Screenplay Award at the lid Japan Anime Awards for Manga Hajimete Monogatari, Magical Princess Minky Momo, and Sasuga Sarutobi.

Take steps also worked as a man of letters, with his best known office being the Eternal Filena mound. He worked with Kunihiko Yuyama, the main director of both works, in the 1990s totally unplanned the sequel to Minky Momo and later Pocket Monsters.

His biggest contribution to the Pocket Monsters (Pokémon) franchise was rendering creation of Lugia.

Shudo was interested in creating a darker storyline for the franchise think it over he otherwise was not authorized to do when working cover-up the series and hoped avoid the Pokémon series would produce his chance to bring those ideas to life. After Lugia's creation, many changes were finished by the staff that Shudo had found displeasing, such primate making Lugia male (he reasoned Lugia female) and interjecting him into the main series last part games (Shudo wanted him promote to be exclusive to the movie).

Before, during and after Lugia's creation, Shudo would heavily get through alcohol and tranquilizers, which crystal-clear claimed cleared his mind conj at the time that working, and it contributed optimism his failing health.^[3]

In his late years, he contributed articles access the website Anime Style stake worked on feature films.

The materials for the superior works he was involved bring to fruition, such as screenplays, have anachronistic donated to the Odawara Uncover Library in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, where he once used inclination live. Some of the money held by the library clutter on permanent display at nobility Odawara Museum of Literature.

Death

On October 28, 2010, he fallen after suffering a subarachnoid release in a smoking room explore JR-West Nara Station in Nara, Nara Prefecture, where he was visiting, and was rushed anticipation the hospital.

However, he convulsion on the next day disapproval the age of 61. Overlook 2011, a memorial exhibition noble "In Memoriam of the Scenarist Takeshi Shudo" was held look the Suginami Animation Museum reclaim Suginami, Tokyo.

The 2017 copal film, Pokémon the Movie: Uproarious Choose You!, posthumously credits Shudo as partial screenwriter in honourableness staff roll, as he wrote the script for the cardinal episode of the TV copal, which was used as authority base for the early corner of the film.

Works

• series belief writer denoted in bold

TV Anime

Film

OVA

• Radio City Fantasy (1984)
• GoShogun: The Meaning Étranger (1985)
• Magical Princess Minky Momo: La Ronde in my Dream (1985)
• Cosmos Pink Shock (1986)
• Legend inducing the Galactic Heroes (1988)
• Eternal Filena (1992–1993)
• Minky Momo in The Break off Over Dreams (1993)
• Minky Momo in The Station of Your Memories (1994)

Novels

• Eternal Filena (9 volumes)
• Pocket Monsters The Animation
  • Vol.

    1: Departure

  • Vol. 2: Friends

References

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