Kazutaka Miyatake

{{Short description|Japanese visual artist and anime designer (born 1949)}}

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| native_name = 宮武一貴

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| birth_name = Kazutaka Watanabe

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|09|21}}

| birth_place = Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan

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| nationality = Japanese

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| education = Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

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Visual artist
mechanical designer}}

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| spouse = {{marriage|Tomoko Watanabe||2021|end=d.}}

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{{nihongo|Kazutaka Watanabe{{cite news|date=November 20, 2015|script-title=ja:宮武一貴（かづたか）さん|trans-title=Mr. Kazutaka Miyatake|url=https://www.townnews.co.jp/0501/2015/11/20/309411.html|newspaper=Town News|language=ja|access-date=June 26, 2023}}|渡邊一貴|Watanabe Kazutaka|born September 21, 1949|lead=yes}}, better known as {{nihongo|Kazutaka Miyatake|宮武一貴|Miyatake Kazutaka}}, is a Japanese visual artist and anime designer known for the mechanical design of the Macross TV series and a number of its continuations from Studio Nue, of which he is a founding member. He has also contributed to the mecha design of other series such as Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny.

Mechanical design

Miyatake has designed the spaceships of several famous anime series. His attention to detail and mechanical realism have made his designs still admired upon and used in anime series and related products after several years of their initial appearance in visual media. One of Miyatake's most famous designs is the SDF-1 Macross spacecraft. Other designs of note have been his Gatlantis Empire spaceship designs for Space Battleship Yamato II and the Zentradi spaceships and mecha from Macross as well as the titular mecha from the Dunbine and Orguss TV series and the Gunbuster original video animation (OVA).

He also created the Mobile Infantry power armor design for a Japanese edition of the Starship Troopers 1959 novel in the 1970s.{{cite magazine|last=Barder|first=Ollie|date=26 December 2019|title=Kazutaka Miyatake On Studio Nue And The Birth Of Real Robot Mecha Design|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2019/12/26/kazutaka-miyatake-on-studio-nue-and-the-birth-of-real-robot-mecha-design/?sh=65b832021ac8|magazine=Forbes|access-date=22 May 2021}} This design has been featured in the Daicon III and IV Opening Animations from 1981 and 1983, as well as the Starship Troopers OVA adaptation from 1988.

Personal life

Miyatake was married to Tomoko Watanabe (born 1960/1961). On May 22, 2021, a fire broke out at their home in Yokosuka. As a result, he suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning and was taken to hospital along with his wife who later succumbed to her injuries.{{cite web|last=Hodgkins|first=Crystalyn|date=May 29, 2021|title=Macross Mechanical Designer Kazutaka Miyatake Discharged from Hospital|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-05-29/macross-mechanical-designer-kazutaka-miyatake-discharged-from-hospital/.173362|website=Anime News Network|access-date=June 26, 2023}}

Works

Space Battleship Yamato (1974) – mechanical designer{{cite web|date=June 10, 2000|title=Playstation Interview: Mechanical Designer Kazutaka Miyatake|url=http://www.starblazers.com/html.php?page_id=341|website=Star Blazers|publisher=Voyager Entertainment|access-date=2009-09-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101129101352/http://starblazers.com/html.php?page_id=341 |archive-date=2010-11-29|url-status=dead}}
Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato (1978) – mechanical design
Space Battleship Yamato II (1978–1979) – mechanical designer
Daicon III and IV Opening Animations (1981/1983) – mechanical design (uncredited){{cite book|year=1981|title=Uchū Kakeru Senshi-tachi Gandamu Senchurī|script-title=ja:宇宙翔ける戦士達 GUNDAM CENTURY|trans-title=Space-Flying Warriors Gundam Century|language=ja|publisher=Minori Shobo|page=146}}
Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982) – mechanical designer{{sfn|Miyatake|2005|pp=3–14}}
Crusher Joe (1983) – mechanical designer
Super Dimension Century Orguss (1983) – mechanical designer{{sfn|Miyatake|2005|pp=95–109}}
Aura Battler Dunbine (1983–1984) – mechanical designer, theme song lyrics
Macross: Do You Remember Love? (1984) – mechanical designer{{sfn|Miyatake|2005|pp=15–29}}
Dirty Pair: Project Eden (1986) – mechanical design
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012 (1987) – mechanical designer
Starship Troopers (1988) – mechanical designer
Gunbuster (1988–1989) – mechanical designer
Super Dimensional Fortress Macross II: Lovers Again (1992) – original mechanical design
Dirty Pair Flash (1994–1996) – mecha designer
Macross Plus (1994) – original mechanical designer{{sfn|Miyatake|2005|pp=30–45}}
Macross 7 (1994–1995) – mechanical and creature designer{{sfn|Miyatake|2005|pp=47–80}}
Doraemon: Nobita Drifts in the Universe (1999) – mechanical design
Angel Links (1999) – mechanical concept design
RahXephon (2002) – artistic concept
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (2002–2003) – design cooperation
Macross Zero (2002–2004) – production setting designer
RahXephon: Pluralitas Concentio (2003) – set design
Submarine 707R (2003) – mechanical design
My-HiME (2004–2005) – creature design (Kagutsuchi and Orfan – S. Nue)
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny (2004–2005) – design cooperation
Genesis of Aquarion (2005) – design assistant (episodes 2–13)
Eureka Seven (2005–2006) – conceptual design
Glass Fleet (2006) – mechanical designer
Flag (2006) – mechanical designer
My-Otome Zwei (2006–2007) – design
Gigantic Formula (2007) – mechanical design (Xuanwushan-III)
My-Otome 0: S.ifr (2008) – creature design
Macross Frontier (2008) – conceptual design
Infinite Space (2009) – spaceship designer{{cite web |date=2010-06-04 |title=Infinite Space (Nintendo DS) |url=http://www.mobygames.com/game/infinite-space |website=MobyGames |access-date=2015-10-20}}
The Girl Who Leapt Through Space (2009) – design
Super Robot Wars Original Generation: The Inspector (2010–2011) – mechanical design
Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (2013) – conceptual design
Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon (2023) – mechanical design{{Cite web |last=Barder |first=Ollie |title=Shoji Kawamori And Kazutaka Miyatake Confirmed As Mecha Designers For 'Armored Core VI' |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2023/08/24/shoji-kawamori-and-kazutaka-miyatake-confirmed-as-mecha-designers-for-armored-core-vi/ |access-date=2024-01-22 |website=Forbes |language=en}}

References

Bibliography

{{cite book |last=Miyatake |first=Kazutaka |year=2005 |title=Miyatake Kazutaka Makurosu ando Ōgasu Dezain Wākusu |script-title=ja:宮武一貴マクロス&オーガスデザインワークス |trans-title=Kazutaka Miyatake Macross & Orguss Design Works |series=Mechanical Design Works Series |language=ja |location=Tokyo |publisher=Movic |isbn=4-89601-629-7}}

External links

{{Anime News Network|people|264}}
{{IMDb name|0594482}}
[http://mediaarts-db.jp/an/anime_series?utf8=✓&asf%5Bkeyword%5D=宮武一貴+&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=tv_a&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=tv_sp&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=movie&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=ova&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=event&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=personal&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=etc&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=blank Kazutaka Miyatake anime] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161024162415/http://mediaarts-db.jp/an/anime_series?utf8=%E2%9C%93&asf%5Bkeyword%5D=%E5%AE%AE%E6%AD%A6%E4%B8%80%E8%B2%B4+&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=tv_a&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=tv_sp&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=movie&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=ova&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=event&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=personal&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=etc&asf%5Bmedia%5D%5B%5D=blank |date=October 24, 2016}} at Media Arts Database {{in lang|ja}}
[http://www.gearsonline.net/designers/#miyatake Kazutaka Miyatake] entry at Gears Online

Category:1949 births

Category:Living people

Category:Japanese science fiction artists

Category:Macross

Category:Mechanical designers (mecha)

Category:People from Yokosuka, Kanagawa

Category:Pseudonymous artists

Category:Sunrise (company) people

Category:Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology alumni