{"id":76787,"date":"2024-01-02T08:25:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T16:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=76787"},"modified":"2024-01-02T08:25:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T16:25:13","slug":"satoshi-iwataki-character-designer-of-dororo-2019-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2024\/01\/02\/satoshi-iwataki-character-designer-of-dororo-2019-has-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Satoshi Iwataki, Character Designer of Dororo 2019, Has Passed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Animator Satoshi Iwataki<\/strong> has passed away after a two-month battle with an unspecified illness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iwataki’s wife, who revealed the news on his X account on January 2 JST, said that he passed on December 30, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iwataki begin animating in the 80s, with 1985’s Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam<\/em> marking his key animator debut. As key animator<\/a>, Iwataki’s name can be found in shows like Mobile Suit<\/em>\u00a0Gundam ZZ<\/em>, the 1988 Patlabor<\/em> OVA, RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio<\/em>, Library Wars<\/em>, A Certain Magical Index<\/em>, Nodame Cantabile<\/em>, Star Driver<\/em>, From The New World<\/em>, One Punch Man<\/em>, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders<\/em>, Spy x Family<\/em>, and Attack on Titan Final Season<\/em>\u00a0THE\u00a0FINAL\u00a0CHAPTERS\u00a0Special<\/em> 2.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iwataki also took on various non-key animator roles, including:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Character designer, chief animation director et al. on 2019’s Dororo<\/em><\/span>
\u2022 Character designer, chief animation director et al. on Ghost Hunt
<\/em>\u2022 Co-mechanical designer on ZOIDS FUZORS
<\/em>\u2022 Prop designer, Episode 2 storyboard artist et al. on A Certain Magical Index
<\/em>\u2022 Mechanical animation director on Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket<\/em><\/span>
\u2022 Animation director; Part 1, 2, and 3 co-storyboard artist et al. on Berserk: The Golden Age\u00a0
\u2022 <\/em>Unit director and storyboard artist et al. for The Irregular at Magic High School<\/em>‘s ending animation
<\/em>\u2022 Episode 4 storyboard artist on Attack on Titan<\/em> Season 2<\/span>
\u2022 Co-action animation director on Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku<\/em><\/span>
\u2022 Co-animation director on Maboroshi
<\/em>\u2022 Co-setting developer on Steam Boy<\/span>
<\/em>\u2022 Art director on 1995’s Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon<\/em> arcade game<\/span>
<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source: <\/strong>@iwataki<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Animator Satoshi Iwataki has passed away after a two-month battle with an unspecified illness.\u00a0 Iwataki’s wife, who revealed the news on his X account on January 2 JST, said that he passed on December 30, 2023. Iwataki begin animating in the 80s, with 1985’s Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam marking his key animator debut. As key […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":76789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,495],"class_list":["post-76787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-dororo"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/dororo_keyvisual2-e1704212325985.jpg?fit=767%2C432&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-jYv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76790,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76787\/revisions\/76790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}