Tributes for One Piece and Dragon Ball Anime Director Tatsuya Nagamine, Who Has Passed Away

It was reported contiguous that prolific anime manager Tatsuya Nagamine passed distant this summer. He was successful his aboriginal 50s. Nagamine worked connected galore fashionable Toei Animation bid including ONE PIECE, Dragon Ball, Digimon, Precure and Saint Seiya.

As reported by animenewsnetwork, the quality of Nagamine’s passing was revealed by composer Kohei Tanaka, and screenwriter and shaper Osamu Suzuki via their authoritative X accounts connected November 13. Apparently, determination was a caller lawsuit held to retrieve the precocious manager astatine Toei Animation Studio successful Tokyo.

Nagamine’s erstwhile colleagues took to X to stock memories of moving with him. Composer Kohei Tanaka attended the memorial lawsuit and recounts that Nagamine was “a cardinal contributor to the anime ONE PIECE,” and praised the director’s bonzer achievements. “I fondly retrieve the galore entertaining meetings we had… I privation I could perceive his machine-gun-like mode of speaking 1 past time.” Tatsuya Nagamine directed implicit 230 episodes of the long-running anime ONE PIECE mostly successful the Wano Country arc, arsenic good arsenic the diagnostic films ONE PIECE Z, spin-off ONE PIECE log: Fish-Man land Saga, and respective different specials.

Rest successful bid to the legendary manager Tatsuya Nagamine. Without him, Wano wouldn’t person been astir arsenic peculiar arsenic it is, and I couldn’t beryllium much grateful for each his enactment pic.twitter.com/ENkybNdAlG

Screenwriter Hiroshi Yamaguchi mentioned connected X that helium besides attended the memorial. Recalling his clip moving with Nagamine connected Dragon Ball Super, Yamaguchi said “he was the idiosyncratic who would ever reassure maine with, ‘It’s fine, it’s fine,” adjacent erstwhile I felt unsure astir my script. I’d hoped to enactment with him again someday and I regret that I won’t beryllium capable to. 52 is acold excessively soon.”

Osamu Suzuki was incapable to be the memorial owed to different event, but gave a elaborate relationship of his clip moving with Nagamine connected the movie ONE PIECE FILM Z. Suzuki worked connected the screenplay for the movie and remembers that it was pugnacious going astatine first. His archetypal connection for the publication was soon scrapped, with Nagamine himself proposing the thought for what would go the movie’s last screenplay: a communicative focusing connected a ceremonial marine admiral called Z.

“At first, helium didn’t adjacent amusement maine a azygous smile. I thought that helium was precise stern,” Suzuki recalls. “There were times erstwhile I felt similar giving up.” However, erstwhile Suzuki had finished the script, Nagamine came into the league room, bowed deeply, and sincerely thanked the writer for each his hard work. Suzuki recounts that helium was truthful touched by this motion that “I astir cried.” Suzuki goes connected to picture Nagamine arsenic idiosyncratic who cared astir the details: “He was the benignant of idiosyncratic who poured his psyche into his work. Not conscionable his soul, but his precise life.”

Journalist Kaori Kabuta recalled interviewing Tatsuya Nagamine astir ONE PIECE FILM Z and the anime’s Wano Country arc. She says that Nagamine’s dedication to his trade gave the arc its chiseled ocular flare, adding: “I volition ne'er hide however passionately helium spoke astir his work.”

Verity Townsend is simply a Japan-based freelance writer who antecedently served arsenic editor, contributor and translator for the crippled quality tract Automaton West. She has besides written astir Japanese civilization and movies for assorted publications.