Illustrator and Animator Mutsumi Inomata Passed Away
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The illustrator and animator Mutsumi Inomata has passed away at the age of 63. Her younger sister made an announcement on X, saying it happened suddenly

She was the main character designer for many of the Tales games, and she worked as an animator, character designer and animation director on several anime titles, including Windaria, Brain Powerd and Future GPX Cyber Formula.

She was the illustrator of the Utsunomiko (written by Keisuke Fujikawa) and The Weathering Continent (written by Sei Takegawa) novels. She worked as an illustrator for Dragon Quest as well.

  • zabadoh
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    8 months ago

    Windaria was huge when it came out when I was in college. The unrelenting tragedy lent itself to our teenage depression. One of our anime club’s members became known as “Captain Windaria” because he couldn’t stop talking about it.