This year, visitors to the Anime Messe will have a great honour. It is with great pleasure that we welcome the anime director of "Kyoukai Senki" and member of the board of "Sunrise Beyond" Mr Nobuyoshi Habara to the Anime Messe Babelsberg 2022.
Mr Habara was born in 1963 and comes from Fukuyama in Hiroshima Prefecture. He is an anime producer and has been a member of the board of the anime studio "Sunrise Beyond" since 2019. He started drawing anime in his middle school days. While attending his high school, he founded his amateur anime club "studio MAPLE", where his first animation was created. His career in the anime industry started as a draughtsman, but he gained various experiences from storyboarding, staging to directing. To date, he has worked on over 100 anime titles and most recently directed the anime series "Kyoukai Senki".
Selected works by Nobuyoshi Habara:
- "Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos" (character design and animation director 1986).
- "Martian Successor Nadesico" (storyboard, staging, key animation 1996)
- "Fafner in the Azure" (director, storyboard, staging, etc. 2004)
- "Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202" (director 2018)
- "Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise" (storyboard, staging 2019).
- "Kyoukai Senki" (director 2021/2022).
At Anime Messe Babelsberg 2022, Mr. Nobuyoshi Habara will present his extensive career in the anime industry on stage on Saturday at 3:40pm, where his drawing technique will also be shown live! Furthermore, a joint Q&A panel with Ms. Kumiko Habara is planned on Sunday at 12:30pm, where you can personally ask questions to the two guests of honour, and there will be a signing session on each con day.