Mobile Suit Gundam Staff



Based on the original ideas of Yatate Hajime & Yoshiyuki Tomino

Director: Mitsuo Fukuda (Future GPX Cyber Formula, Gear Fighter Dendoh)
Story by: Akemi Omode, Akinori Endo, Chiaki Morosawa, Hiroshi Onogi, Hiroyuki Yoshino, Kyoko Kogure, Shigeru Morita, Yuichi Nomura
Music: Toshihiko Sahashi (Future GPX Cyber Formula Saga, The Big O, Full Metal Panic, etc.)
Character Design: Hisashi Hirai (Infinite Ryvius, Fafner in the Azure)
Art Director: Shigemi Ikeda
Mechanical design by: Kimitoshi Yamane (Cowboy Bebop, Bubblegum Crisis, etc.), Kunio Okawara (Mobile Suit Gundam, Votoms, etc.)
Director of Photography: Takeshi Katsurayama
Director of Character Animation: Hiromitsu Morishita, Hisashi Hirai, Kenichi Ohnuki
Director and chief animator of Mechas: Satoshi Shigeta
Colour Coordination: Akiko Shibata, Ritsuko Utagawa
Directors of Mecha animations: Hidetoshi Omori, Hiromitsu Morishita Hisashi Hirai, Kenichi Ohnuki, Kenichi Takase, Kunihiro Abe, Masami Nagata, Satoshi Shigeta, Shinichi Sakuma, Tamotsu Ikeda, Toru Yoshida, Yooichi Ueda
Director of Mechanical Design: Tomo Shigeta
Musical producers: Hiroto Shinohara (Sony Music), Keiichi Nozaki (JVC Music), Noboru Mano (Sunrise Music)
Producers: Fumikuni Furusawa, Seiji Takeda
Chief Writer: Chiaki Morosawa
Sound designer: Yasuo Urakami
Effects co-ordinator: Mitsuru Kageyama

Mitsuo Fukuda
Born in 1960 in the Tochigi prefecture, he started to work for Sunrise in 1980 working on The Unchallangeable TRIDER G7, by participating in design work. After several years he rose in the company, he designed the scenery for certain episodes of Majin Hero Wataru in 1989 before directing Future GPX Cyber Formula, grand winner of the Anime Grand Prix 1991. Mobile Suit Gundam Seed is the second series he has directed to win this prestigious prize.

Hisashi Hirai
He began his career in 1985 with the TV series called Chôjûkishin Dancougar (Dancougar), participating in a variety of other series such as Mr. Ajikko in 1987, Majin Hero Wataru the year after and Future GPX Cyber Formula in 1991, before becoming the character designer for Infinite Ryvius in 1999, which would help to better define his style. After Mobile Suit Gundam Seed in 2002, he designed the characters for Soukyuu no Fafner in 2004 before beginning work on the new Mobile Suit Gundam Seed ; Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny.

Toshihiko Sahashi
Born on the 12th of November 1959 in Tokyo, he gained a diploma in 1986 from the University of Art in Tokyo for music composition. In 1988, he gained various prizes for music, before directing his musical talents towards Tokyo Disneyland for several years. Other than this he has also worked on many compositions for television and Japanese cinema productions, some works in the Japanese animation scene including Future GPX Cyber Formula Saga and Cyber Formula Sin, Full Metal Panic, The Big O and Gunslinger Girl.

Kimitoshi Yamane
Began his career of designing mecha at studio Artmic where, with Shinji Aramaki and Rei Yumeno, he designed the mechas for series like Bubblegum Crisis, AD Police, Gall Force and Megazone 23. After the disbanding of that studio, he launched his carrier as a freelance and participated in several series as a mecha designer, including series like Detonator Orgun, Argento Soma, Mobile Suit Gundam The 08th MS Team, Vision of Escaflowne, Infinite Ryvius, Mobile Fighter G Gundam, Hades Project Zeorymer and more recently, Starship Operators.