#shunichiro yoshihara

Yoshihara Shunichiro is back in business with his old team. People have been asking me why Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress looks like Shingeki no Kyojin. Well there is more to it than just being from the same animation studio Studio WIT (formerly part of Production I.G) and having the same raising star Tetsurou Araki as the director..

Like in the Titans in Kabaneri there’s the same background team from thai-Japanese company Bihou Inc. Art director Yoshihara Shunichiro, who is one of the best and promising art directors of his generation. There also are his trusted co-workers Director of Photography Yamada Kazuhiro who has worked with him many times and art designer Aoki Kaoru (Titans, Jojo, Evol). What a way to start the series. This will definitely prove to be one of the best background art series of the season.

Anime: Fuse - Memoirs of a Hunter Girl (movie)
Art Director: Yoshihara Shunichiro (Terra e, Shingeki no Kyojin, Aquarion Evol)
Background Studio: Bihou Inc.

Sorry for the subtitles in two of the pictures, I couldn’t find a raw version and the only one downloadable had hardsubs.

Anyways, the art director Yoshihara Shunichiro and Bihou Inc.did a really great job with this one. Yoshihara is one of the rising stars in the background business, despite the fact that he has worked there for quite a while already. After Terra e… he has gotten a lot of great job offers where his talents have been put to use.

Bihou itself is a good Vietnam - Japanese background studio which doesn’t suffer from the outsorcing. They have a solid team of artists and art directors. They have quite a large number of regular workforce and thus Bihou doesn’t rely too much on hiring helpers/freelancers (if we trust their homepage employee numbers). Atleast many of their BG artists continue working in each of their projects so even if they were freelancers they are regulars who know who they work with (even the Asian branches).