#art by itou noriko

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Anime news roundup - July 3

The official site got an update!

Releasing in October!

Studio: Satelight

Director: Katsumi Ono

Series Composition: Deko Akao

Character Design: Natsuki

Sub Character Design: Sudako Ehime, Baku Hamaguchi, Mariko Itou

Youkai Design: Hiroyuki Taiga

Prop Design: Mitsuru Souma

Art Supervisor: Yuri Matsuda

Color Design: Yoshimi Kawakami

Director of Photography: Yuujiro Yamane

Editing: Ryouko Kaneshige

CG Director: Hiroyuki Gotou

2D Works: Noriko Nakamoto

Sound Director: Takahiro Fujimoto

Music: Takahiro Inafuku

Music Production: Kappa Entertainment

They're going to be revealing a VA every day for the next few days!

Haruaki: CV Ryota Osaka

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Phichit doodle by Itou-san to celebrate the 7th episode, posted on the 16th of November 2016.

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Kuş mevzusu bitemedi… Yok ama bunu ayrıca paylaşmak zorundaydım, çünkü şimdi bir şey fark ettim. Banana Fish’in animatörü Noriko Itou, bu tweet’i animenin son bölümü yayınlandıktan sonra atmış. Bir de Eiji’nin mektubuna gönderme yaparak “Kuş da hep seninle” yazmış XD

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more late birthday art, this time by noriko itou! (x)

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cleaned scans of the MAPPA YOI calendar! each artwork has a corresponding figure skating “event” that happens in the months they feature. check the captions for more! artwork was created by Itou Noriko, Hiramatsu Tadashi, and Kubo Mitsurou under the supervision of Yamamoto Sayo. 

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The cover art for THE IDOLM@STER MILLION LIVE! M@STER SPARKLE2 03 album has been released and the album is set to be released on the 22nd of December 2021. It will feature new solo songs sung by the members of each album

The crossfade of the album is located here

Tracklist:

Tr.01　Romantic Ch-O-Rd 　Lyrics: Kanata Nakamura　 Music&Arrange: Kaoru Okubo 　Singer(s): Yuriko Nanao (cv. Miku Itou) Tr.02　There...fore 　Lyrics&Music&Arrange: Ryohei Sakata 　Singer(s): Mizuki Makabe (cv. Rika Abe) Tr.03　Happy My Garden 　Lyrics&Music&Arrange: Ryuhei Kinoshita 　Singer(s): Hinata Kinoshita (cv. Nao Tamura) Tr.04　It’s Because Of What You Said 　Lyrics: Yohei Matsui　 Music&Arrange: Tomoyuki Nakazawa 　Singer(s): Noriko Fukuda (cv. Nana Hamasaki) Tr.05　Sepia Colorful 　Lyrics: Erica Masaki　Music: Yuki Honda (Arte Refact) 　Arrange: Masatomi Waki (Arte Refact) 　Singer(s): Makoto Kikuchi (cv. Hiromi Hirata)

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FLCL Alternative and Progressive Japanese theatrical version PV. Alternative will hit Japanese theaters on September 7th. Progressive will hit Japanese theaters on September on September 28th. 

FLCL Alternative key visual

Japanese cast

Mayumi Shintani as Haruhara Haruko

Karen Miyama as Kana Kawamoto

Yuri Yoshida as Tomomi Heta (Pets)

Riho Iida as Hijiri Yashima (Hijiri)

Mutsumi Tamura as Mitsuru Motoyama (Mossan)

Katsuyuki Konishi as Kan Sudō

Takuma Nagatsuka as Kado Sasaki

Ryota Suzuki as Ben Sōta

Miki Itou as Shizuka Kawamoto

Maho Masaka as Bunta Kawamoto

Katsuji Mori as Yōga Dennis

Kaya Matsutani as Maki Kitaki

Yutaka Aoyama as Tabata Kanda

Staff

Chief Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro

Supervisor: Kazuya Tsurumaki

Directors: Yutaka Uemura, Kiyotaka Suzuki

Script: Hideto Iwai

Original Character Design: Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

Character Design: Yūichi Takahashi

Mechanical Design: Kiyotaka Oshiyama

Costume Design: Hiromi Taniguchi

Prop Design: Yuji Hosogoe, Hiyori Denforword Akishino (Aki Production)

Background Art Director: Ayaka Fujii

Color Design: Chiho Nakamura

Director of Photography: Shinji Tonsho

CG Director: Tsukasa Saitō

Music Director/Composer: R.O.N

Sound Director: Toru Nakano

Theme Song: The Pillows ("Star overhead")

Animation Production: Production I.G, NUT, REVOROOT

 Progressive key visual

Japanese cast

Megumi Hayashibara as Haruha Raharu

Miyuki Sawashiro as Jinyu

Inori Minase as Hidomi

Jun Fukuyama as Yoshimi Iide

Tomo Muranaka as Gorō Mori

Masatomo Nakazawa as Nogata Maruko

Tomoyo Kurosawa as Aiko

Kikuko Inoue as Hinae

Kouji Ohkura as Masurao

Takayuki Sugo as Eyepatch

Jin Urayama as Tonkichi

Reiko Suzuki as Tami Hanae

Staff

Chief Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro

Supervisor: Kazuya Tsurumaki

Directors: Kazuto Arai, Toshihisa Kaiya, Yuki Ogawa, Yoshihide Ibata, Kei Suezawa, Hiroshi Ikehata

Script: Hideto Iwai

Original Character Design: Yoshiyuki Sadamoto

Character Design: Chikashi Kubota

Mechanical Design: Kiyotaka Oshiyama

Sub-Character Design: Mai Yoneyama

Prop Design: Akiko Murayama, Yōko Kubara

Background Art Director: Kazuhiro Arai

Color Design: Noriko Arisawa

Director of Photography: Koji Tanaka

CG Director: You Takayanagi

Editor: Taeko Hamauzu

Music Director/Composer: R.O.N

Sound Director: Toru Nakano

Theme Song: The Pillows ("spiky seeds") 

Animation Production: Production I.G

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Emiya-san Chi no Kyou no Gohan (Today's Menu For Emiya Family) anime announced!! On abema TV in February 2018. 

STAFF

Director: Takahiro Miura, Tetsuto Satou

Chara Design: Toko Uchimura

Art Director: Kazuo Ebisawa

Music: Go Shiina 

OP: DJ Misoshiru & MC Gohan

ED: Sangatsu no Phantasia

Production: ufotable

CAST

Shirou: Noriaki Sugiyama

Saber: Ayako Kawasumi

Rin Tohsaka: Kana Ueda

Sakura: Noriko Shitaya

Rider: Yū Asakawa

Ilya: Mai Kadowaki

Taiga Fujimura: Miki Itou

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YOI character designer Tadashi Hiramatsu and YOI animation director Noriko Itou drew art at VAX in Malaysia, and they posted it on Facebook here. 

Yes, that IS the picture Hiramatsu drew. Sasuga Hiramatsu-san... *_* 

edit: I added closeups of the art from nyatarii on twitter!

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Birthday art for Otabek by Itou-san, posted on the 1st of November 2017.

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Art of Emil for his birthday by one of the animation supervisors for Yuri on Ice, Itou Noriko.

Source: Twitter

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I am planning to buy ユーリ!!! on ICE (アニメ版) 設定資料集, based on review on Amazon, seems many are disappointed by the content? What is the reason behind, thanks a lot!

Hello! I went to check the reviews and it’s the reason I imagined..

The other day, Tadashi Hiramatsu (character designer & chief animation director) & Noriko Itou (animator & prop designer) were at VAX (Visual Arts Expo) in Malaysia and showed settings from the series, some of which are not included in the Setting Material Collection. Now, which ones are they? The setting design of the rings, the setting page about Victor’s ass, the alternative costume for Yuuri (this one was displayed in Nakano last December), another page with Yuuri wearing a padded vest and I think a few others. Many Japanese fans were enraged because it has happened a few times so far that YOI unpublished material was shown at conventions abroad and never shown in Japan. It was only possible to see it in cases where, like VAX, pictures were allowed and fans shared it online. At the masterclass in Paris they even showed Kubo’s “name” (manga storyboard) and Yamamoto’s storyboards, which the authors said they will never show in Japan. To be honest I’m a little upset too… And after the stuff shown at VAX even some usually quiet fans were complaining.

Since one of the pages not included in the Setting Material Collection just happens to be the one about the pair rings (what a coincidence, right?) some people are suspecting it’s a kind of discrimination, and they also wrote this in their reviews. It’s actually quite likely and at the same time stupid because I mean, they exchanged the rings in the series and are wearing them so what’s the point of censoring them in the book?? But yeah I don’t find it impossible and if that’s true I hope the person who decided this is kicked out of the production team or anything that has to do with YOI… By the way, Noriko Itou was surprised on Twitter because she thought the rings were included in the book and she had no idea why they weren’t.

If you see, the bad reviews were all posted after VAX. The book itself is not bad, it’s really nice and it does have lots of settings that were never published anywhere else so far, so I do recommend it. People don’t have a problem with its contents but with what is “not included”. There have been other controversies regarding the rings, like when they weren’t drawn in the preview for the guidebook poster (despite it showing the GPF podium). In that case fans made a fuss on Twitter and in the final version they “miraculously” appeared again. Anyway, when I say that discrimination is still rampant in Japan… here’s an example. I am really curious to see how this will develop, because Japanese fans are really fed up with how some information has been handled, and the rings were probably the last straw. (Thanks God at least the Museum doesn’t have any stupid censorship.) But anyway, the book itself is ok!

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Itou-san coloured their Victor doodle that they made for his birthday in 2016 (posted on the 27th of December 2016).

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Itou-san doodled this in response to this tweet, shared on the 12th of December 2016

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Two out of four sketches Itou-san shared on Twitter, shared on the 22nd of November 2016.

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A grumpy Yurio by Itou-san, posted on the 12th of October 2016.