- A grade school student dreaming of becoming a manga artist loved "Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure"
- "AKIRA" is "violent and beautiful"
- "Parasyte" has become a bible
- The graduation project "A Drop of Humanity" is about "a boy who accepts the world's promises"
- The story of the little person inside my stomach: "My original experience regarding tacit understanding"
- Deductively, humanity is bound by premises
- Matsuura's works that are inspired by sound
- A middle school student influenced by Osamu Tezuka's "Buddha"
- Does the amount of information in the anime "AKIRA" connect to today's anime production?
- The power of Geinou Yamashiro-gumi in "AKIRA" - Brother Kura, who contributed music to "A Drop of Humanity" and "The Morning of the Moons"
- "Half of a movie is music" by director Mamoru Oshii
- Things that only I notice in space
- The original experience of "The Morning of the Moons" is what I thought while working as a telephone operator
Guest: Naoki Matsuura (マツウラナオキ)
Animation director, director, animation creator Member of the Japan Animation Association Born in 1982 in Tokyo, currently residing in Kanagawa. Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Visual Communication in 2006. After working in production management at Polycon Pictures, Production I.G, ROBOT, etc., he became independent. He has experience in various video and animation production, including TV, commercials, music videos, exhibitions, and live visuals. In 2016, he directed the exhibition video for the Japan Pavilion at the Milan Expo, which won a gold medal within the expo. His first commercial animation direction was the "Marukome Miso Anime Commercial." Since then, he has also worked on storyboarding and directing for TV series anime. In 2016, he conducted crowdfunding for his original short film "Fire Making," raising over 1.7 million yen, which was completed in 2021. He has screened it at events, distributed it online, and submitted it to film festivals, receiving nominations and awards both domestically and internationally. He is currently directing the TV anime "Liar Liar," which will air in 2023, and is also directing a theatrical animation set to be released in 2024.
Summary of Naoki Matsuura can be found here