We Get Strength And Encouragement From Watching

I Create Women Characters By Watching The Female Staff At My Studio. Half The Staff Are Women.

I Managed To Work For More Than 50 Years With Just Paper, Pencils And Film. My Son's Generation And The One Coming Up After Can't Work With Just Paper And Pencils Any More. I Managed To Avoid Using A Computer. I Don't Even Have A Cellphone. I Feel Lucky I Managed To Live Like That.

The Love Of Weaponry Is Often A Manifestation Of Infantile Traits In An Adult.

Modern Life Is So Thin And Shallow And Fake. I Look Forward To When Developers Go Bankrupt, Japan Gets Poorer And Wild Grasses Take Over.

The Characters Are Born From Repetition, From Repeatedly Thinking About Them. I Have Their Outline In My Head. I Become The Character And As The Character I Visit The Locations Of The Story Many, Many Times. Only After That I Start Drawing The Character, But Again I Do It Many, Many Times, Over And Over. And I Only Finish Just Before The Deadline.