Biography

Born on February 9th 1966 in the Hiroshima prefecture, Satoshi URUSHIHARA is an animator, a character designer and a Manga artist . He works for Office EarthWork. His real name is pronounced in the same way but with a different writing.

In 1983, while he was in 3rd year of technical high school in Miyajima, he met Kinji Yoshimoto with whom he got immediatly well along.


Later on, he sent his candidacy (with success!) for the position of animator on the animation movie Jungle Boy Kenya by the Kadokawa Pictures studios. In the movie, he drawn part of the fight between a rhinoceros and an hippopotamus.

In 1984, once he graduated from high school, he enters in the studios who produced Jungle Boy Kenya: Tôei Animation. He gained experience, then was promoted key animator on the Us-Japanese cartoon Transformers.

In 1985, he left Tôei Animation to work as a freelancer, and specialized in OAV: OAV will become his main activity. Thanks to his role as key animator on Megazone 23 Part II he got recognized by the producer of the AIC Studio, then he worked as a character designer on an OAV for adults, White Shadow (when the OAV was release, his name was kept secret, then announced afterwards on the official website of EarthWork).

In 1989, he works as a animation director and character designer on Legend of Lemnear, a Heroic fantasy-like series. He thus coworked with the director Kinji Yoshimoto, whom he met during his studies. They will combine their efforts on projects like Plastic Little and Kônai Shasei. He acted at the same time as an author, a character designer, animation and stage director on Plastic Little.

In 1990, he funded with Kinji Yoshimoto and Katsushi Sakurabi the Office Earthwork studios (still existing today).

Selection of his works

Anime

Astro, le petit robot (The Atom Ant Show) (intervaliste)

Donjons et Dragons (intervaliste, animateur-clé)

Muppet Baby (intervaliste, animateur-clé)

G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (animateur-clé)

Transformers (animateur-clé, directeur de l'animation)

Lamu (animateur-clé)

Les quatre filles du docteur March (animateur-clé)

Ken le survivant (animateur-clé)

Love Hina X'mas Special - Silent Eve (animateur-clé)

Ghost Hunt (sur les 9 premiers : animateur-clé)

Ikki Tousen : Dragon Destiny (directeur de l'animation de l'ending)

Genshiken - saison 2 (directeur de l'animation de l'opening et animateur-clé)

Animation Movies

Transformers: The Movie

Saint Seiya

Akira

The Five Star Stories

Great Conquest: Romance of Three Kingdoms

OAV

Gall Force : Eternal Story

Battle Royal High School

High School Agent

Gunbuster li>

Crying Freeman

- Crying Freeman - Hiyoku renri
- Crying Freeman - Oshu Tôgoku

Legend of Lemnear

Hades Project Zeorymer (

Bubblegum Crisis series

Plastic Little

Video games

Road Blaster

série Langrisser

série Grow Lanser

Assault Suits Valken

Amaranth II

Amaranth III

Manga

Legend of Lemnear

Chirality, La Terre Promise

Ragnarock City (artbook)

Plastic Little

Dark Crimson

Eidoron Shadow

Artbooks

Satoshi Urushihara Cell Works (April 1994)

Venus (novembre 1997)

Legend Of Langrisser (August 1998)

Love (avril 2003)

U: Collection (December 2003)

Phi (Φ) (April 2005)

Visual Works: Front Innocent Vol. 1 (October 2005)

Sigma (Σ) (June 2006)

Schedule of signing sessions and public conference to come

Visual © SATOSHI URUSHIHARA