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Look what she can do when her back isn’t held together by tape and a back brace!!!

Macbeth:

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Wednesday is an excellent student, but frankly, I’m concerned. This is our class bulletin board. This month our theme is “Our Heroes”, people we love and admire. You see, Susan Ringo has chosen the President. Isn’t that sweet? And Harmony Feld has picked Diane Sawyer.

toco toco - Yoshitoshi ABe, Illustrator

Latest episode on Japanese creatives from Archipel presents a day with the artist, discussing how he started, his move from photography to drawing, and the projects he has worked on.

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Yoshitoshi ABe is an illustrator, who also works as a mangaka, character designer, scriptwriter, in addition to teaching in university. He is renowned for his work in character design on iconic anime such as serial experiments lain or NieA_7, he is also the author of Haibane Renmei, a manga which was also turned into anime.

We will first follow ABe to the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Achitectural Museum, which features an outdoors display of real-size traditional Japanese buildings, where ABe practices his recent passion for photography. He explains his struggles on the medium compared to the illustration process.

ABe will then take us to the Jindaiji Temple and Botanical Garden, before telling us more about his 25-year long career and the encounters he made along the way.