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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yoshiyuki
Sadamoto (born January 29, 1962, in Tokuyama (now Shunan), Yamaguchi
Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese character designer, mangaka, and one of
the founding members of the Gainax anime studio. Before the studio was
founded under the official name (it was originally called Daicon Film),
he served as animator on the second animated project, the Daicon IV
opening animation. His first assignment as character designer in Gainax
was for Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise, released in 1987. He
also worked as animator on Gunbuster and Nadia: The Secret of Blue
Water, and he came back to this specialty for the first episode of
Diebuster (also known as Gunbuster 2 or Top wo Nerae! 2). He is also the
character designer of the best known Gainax anime series, Neon Genesis
Evangelion, as well as the author of its manga adaptation (which is also
Sadamoto's first full-length manga work).
