R.I.P
Norio Shioyama, the character designer of VOTOMS and many other shows of Sunrise, was killed in fire this morning.
https://twitter.com/nobuteruyuuki/status/852525415969062912
>>15430122
Isn't that like the third guy dying in a fire this week? What is going on?
塩山紀生さんが今朝方火事で亡くなられたとの事。。。 訃報が続くなぁ(泣) ダイターン3の最終回の作画は衝撃的で、ザクザク描くあの荒いタッチで全動画とかしびれました。画像はLD-BOXに描かせていただいたもので、自分が唯一塩山キャラを描いたもの。 謹んでご冥福御祈りいたします。
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20170413/k10010947041000.html
What a crue world.
>>15430124
No, that's the composer and arranger of Gundom.
He was a hero who made the Golden Age of Sunrise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xSGFgGiumM
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Honoo no sadame
>>15430122
Rip. I will finally watch Votoms in his memory.
They say his wife was also killed in the fire.
>>15430172
>>15430175
Spoilered
RIP
This is horrible! So many /m/ artists has been dying lately that I'm having a hard time remembering who is still alive! At this rate, we'll need to start a /m/emorial for them just to keep track. A nice Geocity style website that details the works and contributions of each artist. We can even have a suggested playlist sidebar.
I'll miss his cool cross hatched art and his thighs
If dubs, this guy goes next.
>>15430233
>>15430124
There's a fucking arsonist running around Japan.
>>15430233
RIPLOL
This can't be real, all these deaths can't be a coincidence.
R.I.P. This is really sad.
>>15430122
Rest In Peace. His artistic works were some of the greatest contributions for mecha series.
>>15430124
>What is going on?
Japanese government new foolproof plot to cut expenses with retirement pensions.
>>15430122
>Baka Bt is fucked
>Now this
FUCK!
>>15430233
My bet
>>15430122
RIP you wonderful man, you will be remembered.
>>15430122
oh well he died the way he lived
さみしいときも
かなしいときも
いつもあなたが 目に浮かぶ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUxDw42pzOo
>>15430122
If we had non-newfag mods, this would be a sticky.
Rest In Peace.
You didn't deserve to go out this way.
>>15430122
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You could say he had a destiny of fire
>>15430122
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Dude, how many deaths in what, a week? The Gundam composer and someone else too, right?
>>15430314
Minoru Takanashi, he passed away yesterday.
>Takanashi developed content at Bandai Visual for nearly three decades. He served on most Macross projects, including Macross II, Macross Plus, Macross 7, Macross Zero, and the proposed but unproduced live-action Macross movie. He was also Bandai Visual's producer or project planner behind such popular anime as Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket, Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory, Gunbuster, Giant Robo, The Vision of Escaflowne television anime and Escaflowne anime movie, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, Jin-Roh - The Wolf Brigade, Wolf's Rain, and Arjuna.
>>15430233
DELET NOW
>>15430233
DELETE THIS
>All of'em died in the fire
They were all sacrificed by Idol gods
Blood for the idol gods
>>15430122
This is the most terrible news I've gotten all year.
Rest in peace, Shioyama. Your designs were amazing.
RIP, you'll stay here as a /m/ legend.
>>15430122
RIP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norio_Shioyama
Jesus, two house fire deaths in a row? This year truly is cursed.
>>15430238
Semen Arsonist?
So here we are, eh, the end of an era is approaching
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>>15430122
Goddamn it, why!? The guy did good work, he didn't deserve this fate! RIP, for bringing us and many others his (and more likely Takahashi's) love of redheads.
>>15430175
>Fyana's VA
I didn't need to be reminded of what happened to her.
Christ.
77 is a fine age to go out, but not in a fucking fire. That's horrific and sad.
So 2016 was the year of the natural deaths and 2017 is the year of fire? Fuck.
>>15430233
DELET THIS
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>>15430870
Onore, Big Fire!
>>15430667
>they thought 2017 would be any better
Things are only getting started.
>>15430122
Why the fuck is everyone dying in house fires!
>>15430124
>>15430233
Well shit, he's gone now.
>>15430122
According to wiki, he's worked on
>Casshern
>Daitarn
>Raideen
>Tekkaman
>Combattler, Voltes, & Daimos
>Daitarn
>Daltanious
>Trider G7
>Daiojia
>Dougram
>Votoms
>Galient
>The fucking Centurions
>Dragonar
>Ronin Warriors
>Victory
>GaoGaiGar
A true legend, RIP
>>15431407
This guy deserves a sticky, fuck the mods.
>>15431443
What do you have to do to become a mod on the chan
>>15430122
FUCK YOU FIRE LEAVE JAPAN ALONE
>>15430122
Fuuuuuck! This is horrible! Shioyama was one of my favorite character designers, one of the best in Japan IMO. And to die in a fire...god damn. We've lost one of the greats.
This is a grim fate for Votoms. I fear we may never see another entry in that series.
>>15431912
Normally, I would say that they can have a new designer, like for Case;Irvine and Finder, but I remembered that Shioyama is part of Takahashi's winning team and bread-and-butter when it comes to him directly making new major Votoms works that aren't novels. At least the VAs did get to have one last hurrah before this happened.
>>15430141
I just finished watching the original version of this, Yoroiden Samurai Troopers (TV series and OVAs) and that was one hell of an emotional rollercoaster ride.
>>15431912
> I fear we may never see another entry in that series.
Does this really sounds that bad?
>>15430122
Sad news.
:_(
>>15430124
japan is tired of otaku shit
>>15432212
The fans would have to be killed instead though, not the actual creators.
>>15430122
;_;7
>>15430233
Noooooooo!
>>15430122
He was the best.;_;
legit/no sticky?
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Someone or something is killing /m/.
>>15432564
Time?
>>15432571
Time doesn't start housefires. Typically at least.
>>15432387
When was the last time there was a sticky here?
>>15432571
Does time cause house fires?
No, it has to be something beyond that.
>>15432579
Mods dead as fuck
Mods are dead. STICKY NOW
Awesome /m/ artist. Deserves a sticky.
The three /m/en together.
>>15430233
>>15430233
If dubs, I negate that.
Hearing about what had happened, here's a fitting tribute song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2o5o7JfaTc
>>15433451
The meme magic has spoken.
RIP
Listening to Honoo no sadame now, Christ I can't imagine how must it must suffer to actually die by being burned to death. Probably one of the most horrific ways to go out.
>>15430122
Sticky this you gei mods
>>15430233
You son of a bitch.
And yet Japan will continue as usual to be fucking retarded and still use kerosene for home heating.
SON OF A BITCH
>>15432581
Something beyond time?
>>15430122
RIP
>>15430124
I read that Japan's intelligence agency is really bad, so bad that there is an estimated half a million chinese agents running around Japan.
>>15436179YOU BELONG TO ME
So we've got an arsonist with a murderboner for Sunrise or something?
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>>15436284
Yeah. Kerosene heaters.
>>15436253
>tfw all your animus are really made by chinese sleeper agents
we watchin' chinese cartoons now
>>15430122
Well, that ruins my day.
>>15430233
>tfw at the last 4 episodes of ATV
>>15438854
I'm just about to watch the last four.
And it's proving next to impossible to find good torrents for the rest of the franchise.
I'm too late to the game.
>>15439156
The rest of the animated content?
>>15439228
Yes. Specifically I can't seem to find healthy torrents for Pailsen Files, Shining Heresy, Alone Again, and Roots of Ambition.
I found Phantom Arc and Roots of Ambition, but they're both going at a snail's pace.
Mellowlink, Big Battle, and The Last Red Shoulder I found good torrents for.
>>15439338
https://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=310239
>>15439564
You are a literal god
>>15439574
>god
>>15442034
Rest in peace.
What a guy. Always kind to other artists, he drew so many of our dreams we can't even count. I mean, he did animation for Star of the Giants, Sally the Witch, Tiger Mask, the Robot Romance Trilogy, Daioja, Daltanious, Trider G7 and so on before he even made a name as a designer.Took me a while to gather my thoughts, but my homage to this unforgettable man is now up on the /m/subs.
>>15432191
Good to see you again Tempura-san, even under these circumstances.The book translation is still ongoing, rest assured.
>>15449569
What a wonderful cover. Wish there was a high resolution master available. Shioyama-sensei's art was truly great.
>>15430233
>implying he will fall to lord kek's magic
bet he will find a way to reverse it
It's not a master image by any degree, but I do have this image inBeta
>>15449678
Anon I love you, have my perfect soldiers
>>15449711
Hey, no probalo anon.Forgot to trip back there.
Kudos to you for scanning those booklets too.
Here, have what appears to be a self-caricature of Shioyama and the studio peeps circa 94. Takahashi is in the painting top left.
>>15449801
>Kudos to you for scanning those booklets too.
I didn't scan them, some other hero did. Thanks for the image, Amecchi.
>>15449835
Hey, have the Roots of Ambition one while you're still here.Shido is that you lol, I thought it might be
>>15449875
Nope, just a random anon.
>>15449883
Big ups to you regardless then, anon.
I love how Shioyama managed to make unique faces. Take Votoms, other than Chirico and his pallete-swap fluffy-haired version Ypsilon, every single character has a unique trait, hairstyle, cheekbones. This is something you usually see in more "comic" artists like Toriyama, Oda or the My Hero Academia guy. It's a huge loss.Samurai Troopers is the exception that confirms the rule, and then again they have enough difference between them
>>15450979
The Votom cast are unique, never to be see again untilShingeki no Bahamut.
>>15451228
I have some LPs for VOTOMS...
HOLY SHIT that artwork when it's full-sized...
Wait, who was the other one who died in a fire?
>>15452426
Mitsuteru Yokoyama died from injuries sustained in a house fire. It's wrong and it shouldn't happen.
>>15451209Agreed, also good taste anon
>>15451803
The insert booklets for those lp's are pretty epic too.
Don't think about it too much, but Shioyama also did six signed silkscreens back in '01, limited to a run of 200 per image. For instance, he did a no copy reprint of this panorama here >>15449883 and titled it senmu (戦夢) - "A dream of war".
>>15430233
When Tomino goes we all go.
>>15430122
>>15430122
Pay your respects