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Mitsuo Iso

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Mitsuo Iso

Mitsuo Iso

Mitsuo Iso (光雄 磯, Iso Mitsuo?), born 1966, is a Japanese animator, writer, illustrator, and animation director.

Works[]

TV Anime/OVA[]

  • Atom The Beginning: Key Animation (OP)
  • Blue Submarine No.6: Key Animation (ep 1)
  • Den-noh Coil: Director, Series Composition, Storyboard (OP; 5 episodes), Original creator, Digital Effects (eps 1-26), Key Animation (eps 1, 12, 26)
  • Doomed Megalopolis: Key Animation (ep 2)
  • Explorer Woman Ray: Key Animation (ep 1)
  • FLCL: Key Animation (ep 6)
  • Gegege no Kitarō 3/1985: In-Between Animation (ep 88), Key Animation (4 episodes)
  • Giant Robo: Key Animation (ep 5)
  • Golden Boy: Key Animation (uncredited; OP; eps 4, 6)
  • Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai!: Key Animation (eps 4, 6)
  • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Key Animation (eps 6, 13)
  • Junkers Come Here: Key Animation
  • Magnetic Rose: Prop Setting
  • Mashin Hero Wataru: Key Animation (ep 27)
  • Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket: Key Animation (ep 1)
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion: Script (ep 13), Design Assistant (eps 13, 15), Key Animation (video format version for ep. 21; eps 1, 19)
  • Ninja Robots: Key Animation (eps 35, 40)
  • Perfect Blue: Key Animation
  • Orguss 02: Key Animation
  • RahXephon: Screenplay (ep 15), Storyboard (ep 15), Episode Director (ep 15), Digital Work, Key Animation (ep 15)
  • The Orbital Children: Director, Screenplay, Storyboard (eps 1-6), Episode Director (eps 1, 6), Original creator
  • The Rolling Girls: Key Animation (ep 6)
  • Transformers: Super God Masterforce: Key Animation (4 episodes)
  • Yumemakura Baku Twilight Gekijō: Key Animation (ep 3)

Theatrical Films[]

  • Blood: The Last Vampire: Key Animation, Visual Effects
  • The Case of Hana & Alice: Animation Cooperation (rotoscope)
  • Cowboy Bebop: The Movie: Key Animation
  • Digimon Adventure: Born of Koromon: Key Animation
  • Hashire Melos!: Key Animation
  • Kill Bill Chapter 3: The Origin of O-Ren: Key Animation
  • Like the Clouds, Like the Wind: Key Animation
  • Maroko: Key Animation
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack: Animation Director, Key Animation
  • Napping Princess: Key Animation
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion: Key Animation (ep 25)
  • Ocean Waves: Key Animation
  • Only Yesterday: Key Animation
  • Porco Rosso: Key Animation
  • Roujin Z: Mechanical design
  • Steamboy: Setting Development
  • Welcome to THE SPACE SHOW: Key Animation (under the pen name Mikio Odagawa)

Manga[]

  • Chikyūgai Shōnen Shōjo: Original creator

Trivia[]

  • Iso is responsible for Asuka's famous fight scenes in The End of Evangelion, in which he used rotoscopic techniques.[1][2]
  • Iso has published several books collecting production materials of several works he was involved in, including Evangelion. He details many early ideas for the show, including episode drafts of his own: Mitsuo Iso Animation Works: Preproduction
  • Iso is mostly responsible for Episode:13, which he wrote together with Anno and Satsukawa.[3][4] He was responsible for large parts of other episodes also like episodes 19, 22, 24 and EoE, though he wasn't always directly credited.[5][6] He designed many of the Nerv's facilities and scenery for various points of the show and various plot elements and ideas.[7]
  • He also entire proposals for the last few episodes, which were ultimately not adapted. In it, Asuka's Evangelion would explode, twelve angels descended on NERV headquarters, Shinji and Gendo head to the ancient ruins beneath the headquarters in their respective Evangelions (thus Gendo would have an Eva of his own), where they meet Yui again, and finally Shinji dives inside the Evangelion and revives Asuka, who has lost her physical body and fused with her Evangelion. They are later "born" from the Eva.[8] These concepts, as with many earlier ideas, were later reused in Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA and the Rebuild of Evangelion films.
  • He also uses two pseudonyms: Mikio Odagawa and Hideo Tateda

External Links[]

References[]

  1. ↑ https://jp.ign.com/ima-no-anime-wo-shirutameni/45534/feature/2
  2. ↑ The battle between Unit-02 and the UN forces and the battle with the Mass Production Evangelion are both huge and realistic, and will go down in the annals of anime battle scenes. Although the Mitsuo Iso drawing part is often talked about by drawing enthusiasts, the other drawings, storyboards, and directional processing are also superb. Oguro Staff Commentary #61
  3. ↑ Platinum Booklets - Episode Commentaries 07-13
  4. ↑ While contributing to all episodes as a key frame animator, he (Mitsuo Iso) also – in addition to what’s been credited – proposed a number of setting details affecting the script direction and the work as a whole. On episode 13, “Angel Invasion”, he was involved as screenwriter and assistant settei artist. This was his screenwriting debut. He shares the “Screenplay” credit with Akio Satsukawa and Hideaki Anno. Since the script contents that Iso completed were over twice the usual amount, they were recompiled by Akio Satsukawa and turned into the final manuscript through Director Anno’s edits. - Mitsuo Iso Animation Works: Preproduction
  5. ↑ "『電脳コイル』 磯光雄の世界" [The World of Mitsuo Iso in "Den-noh Coil"]. The 2008 February issue of Animage (in Japanese). Vol. 31, no. 2. Tokyo, Japan: Tokuma Shoten. January 10, 2008.
  6. ↑ "特集 アニメーションの創造力PART2 革新を支える制作技術 磯光雄×山下清悟" [Special The Creative Power of Animation Part 2 Production technology supporting innovation Mitsuo Iso × Seigo Yamashita]. The 2020 February issue of Bijutsu Techo (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, Ltd. 07 January 2020.
  7. ↑ Oguro Staff Commentary No. 46 Eva Miscellaneous “Episode 1: Apostle, Invasion”
  8. ↑ Mitsuo Iso Animation Works: Preproduction: ■ End-of-Series Formation Plan By Iso [Idea Memo]


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