Giant Gorg Puns

Episode 1 - New York Suspense

^^^Originally ^^^Aired ^^^April ^^^5th, ^^^1984

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Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Biography and Anecdotes Corner

Middle and High School:

> Yasuhiko was enrolled in Fuchi Junior High School in 1960. He was no longer receiving formal instruction on art, but he continued to draw manga as a hobby, which prompted him to read OsamuTezuka’s earlier work. In that year Yasuhiko read Tezuka's The World to Come, and modeled much of his work at the time on it. > > Yasuhiko’s life was irreversibly changed when his father fell severely ill later that same year, spending six months hospitalized before passing in 1961, when Yasuhiko was in his second year of Middle School. > > In 1963 Yasuhiko entered Hokkaido Engaru High School, where he was frequently compared to his older brother, who was attending Hokkaido University, causing him to develop an inferiority complex which he states caused him to lose interest in academic and other pursuits, including his desire to draw manga, which he bega

Episode 4 - Encounter

^^^Originally ^^^Aired ^^^April ^^^26th, ^^^1984

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Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Biography and Anecdotes Corner

Random Anecdote

> One of the running jokes that underlines the relationship between Yasuhiko and Yoshiyuki Tomino is the latter’s repeated attempts to make the former admit to being a pervert, which Yasuhiko has vehemently denied. Tomino is even said to have admitted in an interview that he isn’t sure he can possibly be friends with someone who hides his perversion, something he has also said of Hayao Miyazaki.

 

Staff Highlight

Shunji Yamada (Keaton Yamada) - Voice of Tom Wave

> A retired voice actor and stage actor best known for his narration roles. After graduating from Hokkaido Mikasa High School in 1963 he moved to Tokyo to work at the offices of a construction company, getting into the theatre scene that same year, which led him to pursue acting. In 1967 he opted to make theatre his main pursuit, quitting his day job and taking on a part-time job to sustain himself

Episode 2 - Westward Bound

^^^Originally ^^^Aired ^^^April ^^^12th, ^^^1984

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Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Biography and Anecdotes Corner

Random anecdote:

> Tomonori Kogawa grew up in the same hometown and attended the same highschool as Yasuhiko, even simultaneously for a year, but the two had never spoken to one another or known this fact until they one day shared a taxi ride from one of Sunrise’s buildings, and while making small talk during the ride discovered that they shared hometown and highschool in common, becoming acquaintanced from then on.

 

Staff Highlight

Mayumi Abe (Mayumi Tanaka) - Voice of Yuu Tagami

> An actress, singer, and voice actress best known for her prominent young character roles. Mayumi Abe had wanted to become a stage actress ever since acting in a school performance hosted by her middle school. After graduating from Aoyama Gakuin Women's Junior College she applied to several theatre companies as an actress, but was rejected from all of them, but she got her opportunity after

”I know that You have been waiting since ages past. The light that has reached into your heart is taking you somewhere. You know that you’ll set out once you’ve embraced what you yearn for.”

What is Giant Gorg?

Giant Gorg (Kyoshin Gorg) is a 1984 sci-fi adventure series that harkens back to the stylistic sensibilities of pulp fiction. The show was produced by Sunrise’s Studio 4 (Dirty Pair, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion) and directed by Yoshikaze Yasuhiko (Crusher Joe, Gundam The Origin). The show is markedly a product of its time, reveling in its eighties atmosphere and flaunting various creative inspirations from the time, many of which are western media. Giant Gorg concerns itself first and foremost with presenting a consistently fun, openly enthusiastic, and intensely thrilling adventure for the viewer to experience alongside the characters, with an emphasis on tense action setpieces to witness, intriguing mysteries to uncover, and emotional story beats to become caught up in.

About The Story

Giant Gorg takes place in the near future of 1998, eight years after the mysterious Austral Island emerged from the Pacific Ocean. Yuu Tagami receives a letter written by his father following the latter’s death in a conspicuous car accident, telling him of Austral Island, which is kept a secret from the general public and is under the control of GAIL —a giant corporation which seeks to obtain the island’s secrets— and instructs Yuu to travel to New York City and seek the aid of one Dr. Tom Wave, one of the esteemed Dr. Tagami’s protégés. Heeding his father’s advice, Yuu seeks out the doctor, causing him, Tom Wave, and Tom’s younger sibling Doris to become entangled in GAIL’s conspiracy. Under the pursuit of GAIL and with the mysteries of Austral Island compelling them onward, the main characters set forth on a perilous journey which takes them through the heart of Austral Island, and the sources of its secrets.

The show began its life as a sci-fi retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure novel, Treasure Island, and you can still see shades of that in the finished product, but ultimately the show is much more evident as being cut from the same cloth —or rather, imprinted upon the same cellulose— as action-adventure pulp serials, the style of which was seeing somewhat of a resurgence at the time of the show’s production, and from which it obtains much of its tone and narrative stylyings. It also harkens to the w

They’ve conditioned me to respond to it

Episode 6 - Gorg’s Secret

^^^Originally ^^^Aired ^^^May ^^^10th, ^^^1984

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Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Biography and Anecdotes Corner

Random Anecdote

> During the production of Mobile Suit Gundam Yasuhiko opted to give the character design of Char Aznable a mask because he thought it would be cool, much to the exasperation of the show’s director, Yoshiyuki Tomino. Despite his personal dislike for it, Tomino did not order Yasuhiko to redo the design, and the mask prompted Tomino to change the character’s characterization and backstory to one that suited a masked character. Yasuhiko is apparently still quite proud of this fact.

 

Staff Highlight

Masao Imanishi - voice of the Skipper

> An actor and voice actor best known in the anime industry for playing men of middle-age or older, and villains. Little is known about Imanishi’s personal life or early career, but he changed employers a remarkable amount of times throughout his career. His debut as an actor was in the TV adaptation of the Ikki Kajiwara and

Episode 7 - The Fortress at Magma Hill

^^^Originally ^^^Aired ^^^May ^^^17th, ^^^1984

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Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Biography and Anecdotes Corner

Random Anecdote

> When penning a manga Yasuhiko uses a single sharpening brush as opposed to a nib pen. He also doesn’t storyboard his manga, nbor employs the use of guides, construction lines, or sketches, insteads opting to draw the final page in one go. According to mangaka Yokusaru Shibata he even has a unique name for his expedient draftsmanship process.

 

Staff Highlight

Yorihisa Uchida - Key Animator

> An animator and character designer. Uchida had been an ardent fan of anime since high school, and frequented anime studios to observe productions and interact with staff. In one such venture, he was intruding upon the production of Mirai Robo Daltanius, and the production’s manager Tadao Nagahama spoke with him, suggesting he join the industry if he was so enthusiastic and found him a position as in-betweener at Sunrise. His

Episode 3 - Stormy Departure

^^^Originally ^^^Aired ^^^April ^^^19th, ^^^1984

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Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Biography and Anecdotes Corner

Random Anecdote:

> Yasuhiko once stated that despite studying Osamu Tezuka’s work extensively, he was more interested in his bold paneling style and the way he told his narratives, and bears a strong dislike for the actual artstyle of his works. He finds Go Nagai’s artwork to be far superior and uses it as inspiration for his own style.

 

Staff Highlight

Mamoru Hamatsu - Episode Director

> An animator, animation director, and professor at Otemae University’s Faculty of Media Arts. After working as an arts and craft instructor for some time before he obtained work at the publishing company Gendai Shichoisha Co., and eventually became an in-between animator at TMS, with his first credited work being on Lupin III: Part II. His work earned him a spot as key animator on 1979’s The Ultraman, and eventually he was granted episode direction duties, where he truly found h

Episode 5 - The Island of The God

^^^Originally ^^^Aired ^^^May ^^^3rd, ^^^1984

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Random Anecdote

> Yasuhiko strongly dislikes the stylings of western graphic novels, and specifically derided the works of Tatsunoko Production through the sixties and seventies for heavily emulating it, lamenting its prominence at the time.

 

Staff Highlight

Norio Kashima - Episode Director

> Very little information is available through online resources as to the life and career of director, screenwriter, and storyboard artist Norio Kashima. Ksahima was director on a number of notable anime series, such as Juushin Liger, Sohryuden - Legend of the Dragon Kings, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, as well as having co-directed several entries in the Dirty Pair franchise. Other works he was involved with include Crusher Joe: The Movie*, Muteki Robo Trider G7, Robot King Daioja, Mighty Orbots, Macross Frontier, Maison Ikkoku, and *Brave Fighter E

Episode 8 - GAIL’s Mineshaft

^^^Originally ^^^Aired ^^^May ^^^24th, ^^^1984

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Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Biography and Anecdotes Corner

Random Anecdote

> For a long time Yasuhiko resented his mother for moving them back to their hometown after constructing a new house for themselves, and describes his attitude at the time as nasty, but pridefully recalls that he never rebelled by doing something like running from home or sneaking about at night.

 

Staff Highlight

Kouji Totani - voice of Boehm

> A prolific voice actor mainly known for his roles in Toei productions and voiced Biramin . Graduated from Todai university and later Toei Audio Talent School before debuting as a voice actor in 1979’s Cyborg 009. Though mainly assigned to roles with astringent characters, he was capable of a wide range of performance. Died of heart failure on February 6th, 2006. Among his notable roles were Socrat Teles in Armored Fleet Dairugger XV, Mohican in Dominion Tank Police, Doll Navy in Juushin Liger, Lóng-Gŭ i