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This is Hikaruon from Gakuen Tokusou Hikaruon. He was glad he got so many cuts for this work, but says the final product was a bit too dark.
A boomer from Bubblegum Crisis OVA. You can easily see the special characteristics of Oohira genga in this single image.
"Sometime soon I'd like to be a mecha AD, even if it's just for one episode. I need to study organic figures more too.... Like (Hideaki) Anno from Wings of Honneamise, that's the kind of animator I want to be."
BL !?!?!
Recently he's done the fight scene with the monsters in Gakuen Tokusou Hikaruon and the baseball scene in Bats and Terry, and been involved in Bubblegum Crisis, among others.
Since then he's done the scene in Gall Force where monsters come out of the crumbling ship, and the scene at the end of Kikoukai Galient: Tetsu no Monshou where Galient cuts Jashinhei apart. In Machine Robo, he did Baikanfuu's henkei which became a bank cut, Baikanfuu and Mizuchi's fight scene in episode 6 etc.
His first work since leaving Pierrot before Tobikage was over and going freelance was Megazone 23 part 2.
"I learned a lot from it. In the coming era, this is the only kind of picture there will be!"
The first in-betweens he drew were for Seijuushi Bismark. The year after that, he graduated to key animation halfway through the next work, Ninja Senshi Tobikage. He progressed rapidly. He was correcting mecha scenes at the same time, all at the tender age of 18.
He says the reason he joined Studio Pierrot as an animator was that his upperclassman from Aichi Prefectural Komaki High School, Kouji Ogawa, was an animator, and he saw a recruitment advertisement in Animage.
"It's not as if I had an interest in anime throughout middle school and high school," he says. "Every day I read car magazines and went to game centers and things like that."
Ohira is young. Only 3 years have passed since he moved to Tokyo to become an animator.
Born December 12, 1966. Sagittarius. Blood type AB. "I love Kamui Fujiwara!"
"At any rate, I'm unusually fond of things that are breaking, with lots of fragments flying around," was all he had to say about the above illustration.
Young Animators of Japan biography series
Shin'ya Oohira edition
(20 years old, freelance)
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also, happy 50th birthday Ohira, i guess
Ohira's students congratulated him on twitter, very cute.
anyone know why they call the shadows BL?
grognarg said:
anyone know why they call the shadows BL?
BL is short for Black.