 This is how
Yasuhiro Imagawa, director, producer and screenwriter, looked when he appeared
at Animazement 98. Imagawa had planned to return to North Carolina for
Animazement 99, but illness kept him back in Japan (talk was that he was
recovering from gall bladder surgery). While Imagawa did not make it to
Raleigh, he did make an appearance of sorts... |
 ...thanks
to a long-distance (and not inexpensive) phone call. A teleconference phone
was found, and the same translator who would have sat next to Imagawa instead
sat next to the telephone and interpreted his comments. |
 While Imagawa's
latest project is Virgin Fleet, the story of an all-female, all-virgin
crew of a warship who have special powers if they remain virgins, Animazement
fans wanted to know more about the Giant Robo series that Imagawa also
handled. "He's not like a super robot who would be pulling weapons out
of nowhere," said Imagawa. "He'd be like a piece of construction equipment.
To emphasize that is the reason that Giant Robo has rivets all over his
body." The title robot also doesn't speak because Imagawa thinks the strong,
silent type is more powerful as far as mecha are concerned. |
 Imagawa spent
a lot of time talking about his dismissal from the Getter Robo project,
showing that is still a sore point with him. While Imagawa didn't want
the details reproduced on the Internet, it's safe to say that he lost the
job because he was late with the project and there was a lot of pressure
to finish it on time. (It should be noted that Imagawa was a couple of
years late finishing Giant Robo.) Also, Imagawa hinted that, if he had
stayed on Getter Robo, there would have been some obvious links between
that series and Giant Robo. |
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