AWESOME ENGINE » akemi takada

September 20th, 2008 by Brack

It’s been a year since I touched this project, but here’s a redo of the last post I made on it after I was pointed to Akemi Takada’s website.

Akemi Takada handily has a very comprehensive list of works up to 2001 on her website. Doesn’t give the roles in the shows, but I’m expecting most are character design works.

1977 - Ippatsu Kanta-kun
1978 - Science Ninja Team Gatchaman II
1979 - Science Ninja Team Gatchaman F
1980 - Tondemo Senshi Muteking
1981 to 1986 - Urusei Yatsura
1981 - 海底大戦争愛の20000マイル - Think this is called “The Great Navy Battle: 20000 Miles of Love” in English.

OK this one I’m a little stumped on, and so I now want to find out as much as possible about it.

It’s from Tatsunoko Pro (but seemingly missing on their English website). It’s listed as being originally created by Jules Verne. And I can’t see hide nor hair of it on ANN.

1981 - Maicching Machiko-sensei
1983-1986 - Magical Angel Creamy Mami
1983 - Future Police Urashiman
1985-1989 - Kimagure Orange Road
1985 - Honoo no Alpen Rose: Judy & Randy
1986 - Urban Square
1986 - Maison Ikkoku
1987 - Twilight Q
1987 - Red Glasses (Emblem Design)
1989 - Patlabor
1989-90 - Patlabor TV
1990 - Patlbor After TV OAV
1991-92 - Licca

After ‘92 her career is much more that of an illustrator, rather than anime character designer. Indeed her illustration credits are far more prolific than her anime ones. Her involvement with anime from this point is mainly illustrations for auxilary projects relating to titles above - particularly Patlabor and Creamy Mami, which are arguably the two shows were you get her design at it’s purest. Original characters rather than redesigning other people’s for anime or subsumed slightly in a house style. There is one notable exception though, a return to the magical girl genre.

1997-1998 - Fancy LaLa

Urusei Yatsura Family Tree - Part 3

September 12th, 2007 by Brack

HEADGEAR MEMBER FILMOGRAPHY PART B - AKEMI TAKADA
GATCHAMAN II (1978) - Character Design
GATCHAMAN F (1979)- Character Design
URUSEI YATSURA (1981-1984) - Character Design/Animation Director
UY: ONLY YOU (1983) - Character Design
MAGICAL ANGEL CREAMY MAMI (1983) - Character Design
MAGICAL FAIRY PERSIA (1984) - Character Design
MAGICAL ANGEL CREAMY MAMI: FOREVER ONCE MORE (1983) - Character Design
UY: REMEMBER MY LOVE (1985)- Character Design
LOVELY SERENADE (1985)- Character Design *
HONO NO ALPEN ROSE : JUDY & RANDY (1985)- Character Design
MAGIC STAR MAGICAL EMI (1985)- Character Design
MAGICAL ANGEL CREAMY MAMI: LONG GOODBYE (1985)- Character Design
CREAMY MAMI VS. MINKY MOMO (1985)- Character Design
UY: LUM THE FOREVER (1986)- Character Design
UY: RYOKO’S SEPTEMBER TEA PARTY (1986)- Character Design *
CURTAIN CALL (1986)- Character Design *
MAGICAL IDOL PASTEL YUMI (1986)- Character Design *
MAISON IKKOKU (1986)- Character Design
PERFECT MEMORY (1987)- Character Design *
KIMAGURE ORANGE ROAD (1987) - Character Design
TWILIGHT Q (1987) - Character Design
MOBILE POLICE PATLABOR (1988) - Character Design
KIMAGURE ORANGE ROAD: I WANT TO RETURN TO THAT DAY (1988)- Character Design
KIMAGURE ORANGE ROAD OAV (1989)- Character Design
PATLABOR 1 (1989) - Character Design
PATLABOR TV (1989-1990) - Character Design
LICCA-CHAN FUSHIGINA FUSHIGINA YUNIA MONOGATARI (1990) - Character Design
LICCA-CHAN FUSHIGI NA MAHO NO RING (1991) - Character Design
LICCA-CHAN NO NICHIYOUBI (1992) - Character Design
EIEN NO FILENA (1992-1993) - Character Design
PATLABOR 2 (1993) - Character Design
FANCY LALA (1998) - Character Design
JIN-ROH (1998) - Capital Police Emblem Design

The asterisked titles are ones I’m unsure of

The correct title.
If Takada worked on them.

They are from IMDB which listed some of the Creamy Mami titles just by their subtitle, so I think something like “Perfect Memory” could well be an OAV of one of the many Magical Girl shows Takada worked on.

I also think Fancy Lala was an old oav before the nineties TV show, so I don’t know if Takada’s contribution on that was actually work from years earlier, as she doesn’t seem to have done much in anime since the early nineties. And as Jin-Roh is part of Oshii’s Kerberos saga, it’s possible that credit is for work years ago too.

This filmography probably needs more work done later, likely when I start to assemble details on the shows.

I may consider combining franchises that span multiple series/films/OVAs into one entry too. Not sure 3 Licca-chan OAVs need their own entries.

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