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Within Microman Club, we also selected the reader-submitted postcards. “Full color promo spreads as well as the 'Microman Club” segments. Thank you very much for your hard work! To what extent did you design the article page? I was in my twenties at the time, so I think I managed to get through at a young age. I wasn’t just designing and painting, I was doing it all including photos for the catalogs, so I was so busy that I could hardly go home (laughs). So, to put it in an extreme way, it was a time when I was doing everything related to Microman. This would have been right when Microman Command started in 1977. “Until then, the main packages, catalogs, and pamphlets were done by Sugawara (lead designer / current president of Design Mate at the time), and I was in charge of sketchwork, but I decided to take over everything including the graphics I was doing since then.

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In 1977, when the article serialization began in TV Magazine, what kind of position did Mr. I remember receiving an order like 'We want to make the magazine a little more powerful …” In other words, the design of the look and feel including sketches of the illustrations drawn by Masami Watanabe. 'The editorial department asked me to lay out the illustrations. I think that would have been my first point of contact with the editorial department of TV Magazine. After that, development of Microman articles started with TV Magazine, and I was in charge of the layout of those pages. In addition to 'Microman”, I was in charge of some of the advertisements for “MagneRobo Steel Jeeg” and so on. “In terms of Takara’s work, I have been sketching products since the launch, so I believe design for the product advertisement page was my first relationship.

Higuchi (with Design Mate) and “TV Magazine”? (Editor)Ĭan you tell us the original point of contact between Mr. Higuchi provided us with this new illustration of the concept. It is said that the development was canceled due to problems with strength, even though a prototype was made. Each part is connected by five-part jointed arms, and each part can move flexibly. ■ Image sketch of Microman Arm System (working name) by Mr. (translated from Volume 6 of the digital version of Yoshihiro Moritou’s Microman manga anthology available on BookWalker)

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