Acknowledgements

This is a personal project by only one person, but many people have contributed to its development. Here I’d like to say “thank you” to all of you:

ADVISORS

• Professor Shunsuke Okunishi (Osaka University)
• Assistant professor Kazuma Yoshimura (Kyoto Seika University)

STAFF (if they can be referred to as “staff”, I prefer the term “friends” ^_^)

• Veronica Calafell, who is always besides me and gives me her unconditional support. She also does some translations ES-EN and corrects my limited English.
• Raul Izquierdo, who helps with the subtitling process.
• Jonathan Lopez, who translates texts EN-ES and ES-EN.
• Makiko Tsujimoto and Emika Tokunaga, who native-checks and correct the Japanese texts I write to present the project.
• Adrian Fuentes, who designed the openings for the videos.
• David Morales (Fotocompra), who took the photos of the G. Nagai, K. Takemiya and L. Matsumoto interviews.
• Oriol Estrada, who composed the tune for the openings of the videos.
• The Creative Commons artists who lend melodies I use to liven up some of my videos.

MANY THANKS TO… (not in a particular order)

• Masumi Kimiwada of Shogakukan, for her incredible help in dealing with many artists and their editors for me, as well as for checking my original project and suggesting ways to improve it.
• Tomoya Hirao of Kadokawa Shoten, for his help and his friendship.
• Yasuhiko Sawada of Magazine House, who gave me invaluable advices on how to present the project and helped me make some contacts.
• Akira Maruyama, not only for letting me interview him, but also for introducing me to some mangaka.
• Noritaka Kawaguchi of Comix Wave, manager of Jiro Tsunoda.
• Naosumi Nishimura of Shogakukan, editor of Takao Saito and Kaiji Kawaguchi.
• Motohiro Miki of Shogakukan, editor of Kenshi Hirokane.
• Reimon Sato of Shogakukan, editor of Moto Hagio.
• Eiji Shimamura of Shogakukan, editor of Naoki Urasawa.
• Yuji Sato of Shogakukan, editor of Seimu Yoshizaki.
• Yasuki Hori of Shogakukan, editor of Taiyo Matsumoto and Issei Eifuku.
• Ryo Ito of Shueisha, editor of Yukito Kishiro.
• Kenji Nagai of Dynamic Productions, manager of Go Nagai.
• Yasusaku Tsuru, Keiko Takemiya’s assistant at Kyoto Seiya University.
• Tatsuhiko Sawada, who helped me as cameraman in the Kazuo Umezu interview.

And of course all the mangaka I interviewed, who were extremely kind with me…
THANK YOU