Michiko Watanabe

Nickname:  Captain

Age:  16-17

Gender:  Female

Race: Black/Japanese

Birthday: May 15th

Sexuality: Pansexual 

School:  Shujin 

Arcana:  The Star

Appearance:  5'5"

Personality:

Loud

Vulgar

Reliable

Creative

Brave

Clever

Honest

Blunt

Bold

Protective

Loyal

Weapons: Twin Concealed blades Glock

Alliance:  Shadow Brigade

Family:  Kazuhiro Watanabe - Father (CEO) Magnolia Watanabe - Mother (Lawyer) Nana Watanabe - Older sister (College student)

Friends: Ryuji Sakamoto  Akechi Goro Ichigo Haru Okumura Yuuki Mishima Ayami Hyuuji Hifumi Togo Toshida Fuga

Phantom Thieves: Akira Kurusu  Morgana  Ann Takamaki Yusuke Kitagawa Makoto Niijima Futaba Sakura

History: Michiko is a loud and vulgar teen that hails from the nicer side of Shibuya. She was a shy and quiet kid before she befriended Ryuji when they were both five and has stayed his best friend all throughout his life. Joined the Volleyball team when she got to Shujin and quickly became the star player. After Ryuji was sent to the hospital, Michiko became distant and extremely protective. She sucker punched Kamoshida after he snuck up on her and said that he'd be losing more than just his breath if he touched her again. 

After that she countered Kamoshida every time he tried to send Mishima after one of the girls. When Ryuji got back, she helped him bleach his hair and afterwards he helped her dye her hair. She stayed with volleyball despite everything that happened, only because Ryuji begged her to, saying that his actions shouldn't have to bring both of them down. Rumors spread about her being "Sakamoto's girl" and she never managed to diffuse them completely. She longed to make Kamoshida pay for everything that the Metaverse app appeared on her phone. She confronted kamoshida about her being weak and gained Ren Mamoru. Started the Shadow Bandits with Mishima and Ichigo and is the leader.

I know I keep harping on it but, it really does suck that shounen/seinen anime/manga enjoyers refuse to look at literally anything else because now I'm forced to hear shit like "If jjk not in your top five anime of all time, you buggin." and "Dbz is one of, if not the best anime of all time." said by grown-ass adults out loud on purpose all the time.

Fake Affair (Gisou Furin) Ep 1

Life of a contract worker.

They are like a modern day ronin.

近代を問い直す

（前略）渡辺さんのもとに取材でたびたび通ううち、「近代の再考という自分のテーマを確立できたのは、やっぱり石牟礼さんとの出会いが大きかった」と話すのも聞いた。

　『逝きし世の面影』を改めてひもとけば、開国による近代化で失われたとして描かれたのは、江戸期の生活様式にとどまらない。人々が自らを取り巻く自然との間に結んだ関係、そのようなコスモスを持った一つの「文明」が滅んだととらえたところに、石牟礼さんに触発された思考の跡が認められる。

　「僕が色々石牟礼さんのお手伝いをしたってことで、渡辺ってやつは感心な野郎だってことになってるらしいけど、ちゃんと元は取ってるの」

　一昨年の熊本市での講演で、そう冗談めかして語った。その口調が思い出されて、いまはただ懐かしい。

2023/02/11 朝日新聞

ひもとく　渡辺京二の世界

文化部記者　上原佳久

Identity V Stageplay Release

Identity V Stageplay Episode 4 "Phantom Of The Monochrome" will be appear in June - July 2024

The main character for this episode is Wu Chang and Prisoner

Cast

Survivor

- Yusuke Anazawa as Prisoner (Luca Balsa)

- Mirai Tsuboi as Mechanic (Tracy Reznik)

- Chiba Mizuki as Seer (Eli Clark)

- Suga Kyosuke as Prospector (Norton Campbell)

- Takuya Matsufuji as Mercenary (Naib Subedar)

- Kohei Masaki as Gravekeeper (Andrew Kreiss)

- Youta Suzuki as Postman (Victor Grantz)

- Sena Yamashita as Priestess (Fiona Gilman)

- [New] Kodai Miyagi as Painter (Edgar Valden)

- Uchida Ayasumi as Gardener (Emma Woods)

- Hirai Yuki as Embalmer (Aesop Carl)

Hunter

- Kunishima Naoki as Wu Chang (Xie Bian)

- Agata Gouki as Wu Chang (Fan Wujiu)

- Yoshihiko Narimatsu as The Ripper (Jack)

- Keisuke Igarashi as Photographer (Joseph Desaulnier)

- Watanabe Daiki as Axeboy (Robbie White)

- Aimi Nakano as Geisha (Michiko)

- [New] Mashiro Yagi as Sculptor (Galatea Claude)

Today's translation #615

Febri vol. 41, Tominaga Keisuke talking about Yamamoto Sayo

[Yuri!!! on ICE music producer]

Part 1.

That we had the opportunity to work together, was thanks to Watanabe Shin'ichiro, who was responsible for music in Yamamoto Director's previous works, introducing us to each other. The first time when we've met, if my memory serves me right, was at a studio, when working on episode 20. of "Space☆Dandy" (known as "the ROCK" episode) - I was the music producer, and Yamamoto Director drew ekonte and was the Episode Director for that episode. I don't think that we talked a lot at that time, but I asked Okamura Yasuyuki-san for music for the opening, and Yamamoto Director worked on music video for that song, and on the ending animation (a collaboration between Yakushimaru Etsuko and Sugano Yoko)... So it was indirect, but we were working just right next to each other on the same, busy production team.

My impression of her [was based on], an interview about 'Michiko and Hatchin' that I happened to came across before meeting her in person, in which she said: '[The show] is full of assholes. Only really shitty men are in it." and "The idea for this story came to my mind, just after I broke up with a guy". Reading that I thought: 'Just like the style of her works, what a tough and rockstar-like female director. I may be actually scared of her..." and in my head, I imagined her as a mix of Tsuchiya Anna and Nishikawa Miwa. The thing is, when I actually met her, my impression was that actually, she is humble and her way of directing is so thorough. It was also easy to talk to her, because we are close in age. I felt a great peace of mind, when working and communicating with her, so it was an actual pleasure to work with her.

I think watching Michiko and Hatchin is really helping me solidify my ambivalence toward the Shinichiro Watanabe style. Like, this is a damn well-made show, always looks fantastic, clear vision behind it, saying everything it needs to, communicating its ideas perfectly... and it just doesn’t click with me that much outside of a few particularly strong moments. It’s exactly the same kind of feeling that Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo left me with to varying degrees. And I think it’s worth digging into that a bit and unpacking why Bebop Ennui, as I’m going to call it from hereon, is something I don’t jive with.

See, what defines Bebop Ennui across Bebop, Champloo and now this show is that they’re all stories about loss, longing and absence. Characters are defined by the holes left in them by time and tragedy, from the various lost loves of the Bebop crew to the long-gone regrets of Champloo’s team. And most importantly, these are losses that can never be recovered, no matter how hard the characters might struggle. Spike loses Julia mere minutes after finding her again. Faye can only ever connect with her past life through the videos she left behind. Fuu and Mugen can only see their loved ones again once they join them in the land of the dead. If these characters are ever able to find peace, it’s by forging new bonds with the new people who’ve come into their lives, not by clinging to old ghosts as a security blanket. And it’s never guaranteed they’ll be able to move on before their helpless yearning finally drives them down a path there’s no recovering from.

This is the driving animus behind pretty much all of Michiko and Hatchin’s adult characters. Michiko is chasing Hiroshi, a love she hasn’t seen for over a decade, in hopes of reclaiming a nostalgic perfect life that may not have even existed. Satoshi as well could only feel like himself with Hiroshi, and his desire to find his old friend whatever the cost is what eventually leads to his doom. Atsuko, meanwhile, is hung up on Michiko herself, almost losing everything in pursuit of their fractured friendship despite trying to convince herself there’s nothing left between them. They’re all chasing specters of the past that can never come back, and only those with the strength to let go and move on are able to come out alive. But as Hatchin throws in Satoshi’s face, what makes that so hard is that most people can’t handle being alone. They’d rather chase the specter of something they once had because the second they let it go is the second they admit how empty their lives have become. So they keep racing forward, against the current, borne ceaselessly into the past. Jay Gatsby would be proud.

This sense of chasing what’s gone in vain is at the heart of Bebop Ennui. Adults broken by what they can never have again, reaching for it to escape their current misery until they either find the strength to run away or let it carry them into the abyss. It’s not hard to see why these stories speak to people, or why they’re so beloved. But for whatever reason, that kind of angst just isn’t something I connect with. Maybe it’s the Aspergers in me, maybe living in an online generation has removed the sense that I’m ever truly alone, but I find little that speaks to me in this conception of adult loneliness. I’ve never really had problems with relationships fading away over time; I stick with the people I want part of my life, I let go those who don’t click with me, and I accept when something I once shared with someone is finally over. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had plenty of struggles over my long journey into adulthood, but accepting change and letting go has never been one of them. So as well-made as these shows are, they just don’t reflect my own experience with the world in a way I can easily relate to.

I guess my point is, it’s not Michiko and Hatchin’s fault I’m only enjoying it a moderate amount. I just don’t gravitate towards stories like this, no matter how well executed they are. I can still appreciate the craft, it’s just never going to be something that really sticks with me once it’s over.

Holy cannoli UA Mixed Course Classes 1-X and 1-Y! It's your one (1) year anniversary! Well it would be if I didn't procrastinate working on this so much,,, But on a more serious note, KNHA has probably been one of the best things I've ever had the pleasure of working on, and I owe a lot to it and all the people involved in helping me get out of my shell a little bit and had helped me improve my art a lot! And I'm glad I've had the chance to have interacted with a lot of really cool people, and I hope we can work on some more cool stuff with them in the future.

Anyways the oc credits are under the read more, so go check out the other creators blogs!

Class 1-X Osamu Sato (@dantelionwishes) Moa Fuwa (@you-may-call-me-meme) Akihiko Arakan (@akihiko-arakan) Hibiki Manami (@3080-manami-hibiki) Burai Banzai (@buraibanzai) Amorette Valentia (@amorette-valentina) Michiko Watanabe (@residentquirksupport) Makoto Shiba (@dantelionwishes) Jiro Yukimura (@zer0-10) Jetsam Kisa (@jetsam-kisa) Aito Takao (@korissideblog) Hiroharu Aki (@compoundhero) Rin Tsukikage (@kamiart) Sumiye Gemu (@smol-hibiscus) Taishiro Watanabe (@tai-watanabe-class-1x) Tamashi Yoken (@tamashi-yoken) Carlos Cordova (@pokeracer93) Ayume Hikkido (@ayume-hikkido) Tsutsumi Natsumi (@glitchviper) Kiku Miyagawa (@cryptidanaphafsi) Jimin Kim (@artpocalypse) Class 1-Y Pro Hero Miss Me (@dantelionwishes) Mitsumi Togan (I couldn't find their blog,,) Momo Neko (@lintulady) Mao Amai (@greyciees) Evan Satoru (@no1-horror-hero) Boni Kazai (@boni-kazai-1y) Konekomaru Yoshino (@you-may-call-me-meme) Ikuto Maekawa (@nicosbrainrot) Tokiya Iori (@skiduffle) Kabane Higanbana (@imminent-soup) Yori Hayashi (@beetrootbot) Hina Mumei (@plutoeater) Kiyoko Hagane (@cosmic-goof) Jaye Rokuto (@zer0-10) Doku Heiwa (@doku-kisa) Kurumi Yamashita (@nightseeye) Tano Hoshizawa (@tano-hoshiz-1y) Naga Murasaki (@murasaki-naga) Murasaki Nendo (@genuinefauxthought) Hikari Kamino (@dantelionwishes) Tsuki Hashimoto (@allestories)

book of oc names

this is literally just a ref for ask games so im just puttign the ocs i care abt most here . if i listed every one of them we'd be here all day

enstars ocs: umeko shiina, shiori, kinuyo, takumi, miruku shirogane

enstars fankids: yuudai tojo, kokoro amagi, rina shiratori, asahi shiratori, haruna oukawa, fuyuki oukawa, natsumi oukawa, akiko oukawa

bnha ocs: miyuki yukimori, hisao kato, eiko abe, kuri akase, nao sawada

spe ocs: livid, canary, jade, verdun

spe fankids: sabre tsurugi, pelte schildemilia, mercury berlitz, venus (haha no surname venus)

regular dr ocs: kayo mikami, kouki yuuki, chinatsu kishi, sachi fujiwara, hakaku hirakawa, akira hirakawa, daichi akio, chiharu akio, isamu itou, carmen agnusdei, juro hayashi, michiko hirose, mariko watanabe

dr fankids: yuuto amami, honoka amami, minako ouma, kazuki naegi, emiko hinata

hi there :) can you recommend me some other animes like cowboy bebop?

Hello!! We’ve got a couple for you.  To start, Samurai Champloo would be the first rec, as it’s another one of Shinichirō Watanabe’s masterpieces that follows up after Cowboy Bebop. Other series that are similar in the vibes would have to be Lupin III, Trigun, Black Lagoon and Michiko e Hatchin.  If you’re interested in Cowboy Bebop universe, we’d also suggest Space Dandy and Carole and Tuesday! vERY different vibes, but same universe.  Carole and Tuesday actually takes place in the same city that the Cowboy Bebop movie takes place, and you’ll find Vicious’s crow in Space Dandy :DD

The Smoking Scandal That Changed Onyanko Club

April 11, 1985 Group photo of the earliest members of Onyanko Club

Smoking Group Members Top: Yoshino Kayoko, Tomoda Mamiko Bottom: Okuda Mika, Enokida Michiko, Satō Mayumi

Smoking Group Members Top: Okuda Mika, Yoshino Kayoko Bottom: Satō Mayumi, Enokida Michiko, Tomoda Mamiko

Onyanko Club was the biggest female idol group of the 1980s.(OnyankoC P18)(Prime) They made their debut in the entertainment industry as an idol group exclusively for a variety show called "Yūyake Nyan Nyan", which started on April 1, 1985 on Fuji Television Network.(OnyankoC P22)(Prime) Each of the girls was given a membership number.(Geinōkai P84) There's absolutely no way to avoid these girls when looking back at idol history.(OnyankoC P18)(Prime) Onyanko Club is the progenitor of popular idol groups such as AKB48 and the Sakamichi series, and has had a certain influence on many other idols.(OnyankoC P18)(Prime) AKB48 and the Sakamichi series are known for being produced by Akimoto Yasushi, who was also involved in Onyanko Club.(Kotaku) However, he was only involved in Onyanko Club as a scriptwriter and lyricist, not as a producer.(OnyankoB P82)(Kotaku) The person who effectively supervised Onyanko Club was Kasai Kazuji, the chief director of Yūyake Nyan Nyan, and Akimoto wrote many lyrics for Onyanko Club in accordance with Kasai's intentions.(OnyankoB P82)

Please see the following Wiki for more information.

Onyanko Club was deeply inspired by "All Nighters", a female college student idol group that was an exclusive part of Fuji TV's midnight program "All Night Fuji".(OnyankoC P94-95) The real origin of the idol groups that were formed by several dozen girls wasn't Onyanko Club, but All Nighters.(OnyankoC P94-95) Since Kasai was also one of the producers of All Nighters, the group's methodology was brought to Onyanko Club.(OnyankoA P146)(OnyankoC P8) The eleven original members of Onyanko Club were selected from a large number of high school girls who appeared on a special program called All Night Fuji High School Girl Special～We, too, ain't idiots～, which aired twice on February 23 and March 16, 1985.(OnyankoB P36) However, the idol magazine DUNK claimed that they had already been selected at the previous year's audition.(DUNK85 P83) Idol Aihara Yū claims that she was actually accepted for the audition.(Ippo) However, she turned it down due to the decision of her agency's president, who was concerned about her joining an idol group whose future prospects were uncertain at the time.(Ippo) In addition, some say that singer Watanabe Misato was also slated to be one of the original members of Onyanko Club.(2ch2 98)

April 15, 1985, 9:10 p.m. Coffee shop in Shinjuku, Tokyo. 6 members were there.

6 Smoking Group Members, including Kihara Aki.

Profiles of the members of the Smoking Group From the July 1985 issue of the idol magazine DUNK

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Trivial but detailed observations regarding the Smoking Group(in Japanese).

By the way, only two weeks after the start of the program (the media didn't mention the exact date, but it was probably April 15), the six members were photographed smoking in a coffee shop by the fucking paparazzi from the weekly magazine Shūkan Bunshun.(OnyankoB P36)(OnyankoC P22) These girls became known as the Smoking Group.(TreasureB P61) Okuda Mika, membership number 1, was the only one who was photographed at the decisive moment when she was actually smoking a cigarette.(Geinōkai P85) Five of the six members were fired, except for Kihara Aki, who stubbornly denied her smoking habit.(TreasureB P60) Some say that Kihara had connections to the upper echelons of the TV station.(2ch1 873)(2ch1 886) Since they were considered core members of Onyanko Club, the scandal changed the form and fate of the group.(Sponichi)(TreasureA P63) At this point, Onyanko Club was still a nobody, but they subsequently gained such overwhelming popularity that the girls became a social phenomenon.(OnyankoC P18)(Geinōkai P84) Yūyake Nyan Nyan was broadcast for one hour from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. on weekdays.(Geinōkai P82) During the time, many students were involved in club activities, attending tutoring schools, or hanging out in amusement arcades, so the program didn't get many viewers in its early days.(Myōjō P152)(Geinōkai P84) However, as Onyanko Club's popularity grew, they threw up their respective activities and became obsessed with the program.(Myōjō P152) The ratings, which were initially around 3 percent, rose to 18 percent, an astounding figure for this time slot.(Geinōkai P82) In 1986, songs related to Onyanko Club spent 36 of the 52 weeks at number one on the Oricon charts.(OnyankoC P19)(Prime) Onyanko Club achieved explosive popularity supported by the power of energetic teenage fans.(Geinōkai P82)(Style) In contrast, AKB48 may have been supported more by middle-aged guys who used to be fans of Onyanko Club than by younger ones.(Style) The infamous AKB48 business method of requiring fans who want handshake tickets to buy tons of CDs, has successfully made these middle-aged guys easy targets.(Style) Note that although there are a lot of middle-aged idol fans today, in the 1980s, idol fans were basically young people in their teens or early twenties at most, and there were very few older fans.(Geinōkai P82)(Style) It was exclusively the privilege of the young to be infatuated with idols.(Geinōkai P82)(Style) Since Onyanko Club became the most popular female idol group of the 1980s, this scandal is considered a highly noteworthy one in the history of idols.(TreasureA P63)(TreasurB P60) Note that the name of the program, Yūyake Nyan Nyan, is translated into English as Sunset Meow Meow, but its real meaning is Sunset Sex.(Songs P198) The term "Onyanko" in Onyanko Club can also be interpreted as a girl who fucks.(Songs P198) In this sense, the group and the program had extremely obscene and lewd intentions.(OnyankoA P146)

Sources are listed here. https://www.tumblr.com/edit/nyankodanyan/712317304261820416

Live-Action Way of the Househusband Film's Video Highlights Women Film opens on 06 three or more

Sony Photographs began streaming a video on Thursday for Gokushufud? the Cinema, the live-action film of Kousuke Oono's The pattern of typically the Househusband (Gokushufud? ) manga. It shows the women in the film. The picture will open about June 3. The cast members in the manga's previous live-action series are reprising their roles for your film, including Hiroshi Tamaki as Tatsu, Haruna Kawaguchi as Miku, and Jun Shison as Vulgo. The other coming back again cast members incorporate Tamaki Shiratori because Himawari, Naoto Takenaka as Kikujir? Eguchi, Izumi INamori as Ibari, Kenichi Takit? as Torajir?, Y? ta Furukawa because Sakai, Junpei Yasui as Sadogashima, Tinaja Tamashiro as Yukari, MEGUMI as Tanaka, and Michiko Tanaka as? ta. Other cast members include: K? tar? Yoshida as Kond?, typically the president of the particular K Planning true estate company Marika Matsumoto as Koharu, Torajir? ' Hunter x Hunter Gogoanime , and the third leader of an alliance regarding three Hiroshima female biker gangs Yumi Adachi as Shiraishi-sensei, the head from the Kary? nursery, which can be facing eviction pressure from Kond? Kenta Izuka (left inside of image below) and Tomoko Fujita (center) also join the cast as Yamamoto and Kat?, respectively. The characters usually are underlings of Kond?, who convince nearby businesses to promote their land. Furthermore seen below in right is Yoshida as Kond?. Kunito Watanabe (left in image below) and even Yua Shinkawa (right) play Kazuma and even Kasumi, respectively. That they are a newly married couple that have misunderstanding after misunderstanding with Tatsu, in addition to end up rising the problem by concerning increasing numbers of people. T? ichir? Rut? is back from the live-action series as the director of typically the film. The live-action series premiered in October 2020. This will have some sort of six-part epilogue exclusive that premiered in May 27. Oono launched the manguera on Shinchosha's Kurage Bunch website within February 2018, in addition to Shinchosha published typically the ninth volume on March 9. Viz Media is publishing the manga inside English, also it unveiled the seventh volume level on January 20. It will deliver the eighth volume on August sixteen.

The manga furthermore inspired an cartoons adaptation. The first of all part of the anime first showed globally on Netflix in April 2021 with five episodes. The 2nd part debuted globally on Netflix in October 2021.

GLEAT Ver.7: TOKYO DOME CITY HAL (12/30/2023)

G-REX Championship Match

Champion/T-Hawk vs Hayato Tamura/Challenger

《Semi-final》G PROWRESTLING [Tag Match]

G-INFINITY Championship Match

《Champion group》 Jun Saito & Rei Saito vs Soma Watanabe & Shin Yuya 《Challenger group》

Takehiro Yamamura vs Kaiji Ishida

Match 7 LIDET UWF World Championship Match

Champion/Hayato Fujita "Jr" vs Minoru Tanaka/Challenger

LIDET UWF [Double Bout]

Maya Fukuda & Hikaru Shida vs Tomoka Inaba & Azusa Inaba

LIDET UWF [Single Bout]

Ibushi Pro Wrestling Institute Riki Ashitaka Pro Wrestler Debut Match

Riki Ashitaka vs Tetsuya Ido

KAZMA SAKAMOTO & Check Shimatani vs SBK & TAKUMA

MICHIKO & Yukari Hosokawa vs Sayaka Eel & Aoi

Kazu Hayashi & El Lindaman & Kazusei Onizuka vs Colt Cabana & Brandon Cutler & Kuroshio

G PROWRESTLING [GLEAT Super 4WAY Battle]

Ryuichi Kawakami & Quiet Storm & Galeno del Mar vs Takanori Ito & Yusuke Kodama & Tomoaki Honma vs Kotaro Suzuki & Hartley Jackson & Keiichi Sato vs Jun Tonsho & JD Lee & Ryoo Aoyagi

著作というものはその時代の権力や政権への批判なしには成立しえないものだ

『（前略）水俣事件は、近代的市民社会の論理によっては説明しきれない前近代的な生活意識を考えに入れることで、はじめてその残酷さが見えてくる。その生活意識の中には「人間的道理」が実在した。水俣事件は単に身体的な被害というだけではなく、土地に結び付き庶民を貫いていた「人間的道理」を、破壊し尽くした事件だったのだ。』

2023/01/12 朝日新聞

「人間は土地に結び付く」石牟礼文学の支え手

「江戸文明」と近代化　日本像描く

渡���京二さんを悼む

寄稿　田中優子

Identity V Stageplay Present

Episode 4 : "Phantom of The Monochrome"

Hunter Cast

Main Cast

Kunishima Naoki as Xie Bian

Agata Gouki as Fan Wujiu

Narimatsu Yoshihiko as Jack The Ripper

Igarashi Keisuke as Photographer (Joseph Desaulnier)

Nakano Aimi as Geisha (Michiko)

Watanabe Daiki as Axeboy (Robbie White)

Mashiro Yagi as Sculptor (Galatea Claude)

Today's translation #394

Ferbi vol. 41, Sayo Yamamoto's interview

Part 6.

-- That's also very intense, isn't it!

Y: Yeah. After that experience, the desire to cross the studio's fence and work with more diverse cast of people appeared in me. After around 3 years in the studio, I started to think that as a studio's employee, I'm not able to choose what I'm working on, so if I just stayed there, I wouldn't be able to develop my skills - even though, that was an extremely impudent thing to think. And when I was pondering on that, Watanabe Shin'ichiro contacted me.

-- I see. So this is how it happened that your first work after you left Madhouse was "Samurai Champloo". 4 years had to pass before you directed your first work, "Michiko and Hatchin", but were you thinking then, that you would like to direct your own work someday?

Y: I didn't really think that I want to "become a director". But I wanted to work on things that I really find interesting. And I was sure that things that I "want to watch" are for sure "interesting". I thought that to be able to express [create] those things, I needed to learn the necessary skills, and to do that, the only way is to do a lot of directing [as episode director etc., not as a main director]. Also, when I started to work with manglobe animation studio on Champloo, my name hasn't been known at all yet, and they didn't have trust in me, so for the time being, I was submitting a lot of storyboards. The CEO (Kobayashi Shin'ichiro) liked one of those storyboards, and he proposed to me right away that we should make a project out of it. That project turned into "Michiko and Hatchin".