Figure King No. 34 - Robot Anime Hellscape - Nail it this time!!
PROFILE: Kōichi Ōhata, born in 1962. Film plan designer. Debuting in this issue is the series of emotional stories from behind-the-scenes of robot anime. P.S. Everyone who came to the Blue Gender event at Loft Plus One, many thanks!! The year 1983, when the now defunct International Film Company produced “Subspace Mission Srungle”, was a good year for unique robot shows such as VOTOMS, Dunbine, Mospeada, Dorvack and Sasuraiger. In the 70s, children’s heroes were super robots, and thanks to a multitude of hit products, they evolved from “toys” to “models”. To put it in brief, robot anime was “very important” to the male toy market. Around the time I said I’d become a mecha designer, the industry was shaken up in a big way, or rather it was out of order. In those days, there was a lot of forcibly throwing together a formula that robot anime + youth culture = money, and planning was done with an old man mentality. However, for better or for worse, robot anime proliferated thanks t...