Kazutaka Miyatake

Kazutaka Miyatake (宮武一貴 Miyatake Kazutaka, born September 21, 1949) is a 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

Kazutaka 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 "Comet Empire" alien spaceship designs for Space Battleship Yamato II and the Zentradi alien ships and mecha from Macross as well as the titular mecha from the Dunbine and Orguss TV series and the Gunbuster OVA.

Miyatake also created the Mobile Infantry Power Armor design for a Japanese edition of the Starship Troopers 1959 novel in the early eighties.^[1] This design has been featured in the DAICON III and IV Opening Animations from 1981 and 1983, as well as the Uchu no Senshi (Space Soldiers) OVA adaptation from 1988.

List of works

• Space Battleship Yamato (1974) - mechanical designer^[2]
• 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)^[1]
• The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982) - mechanical designer^[3]
• Crusher Joe (1983) - mechanical designer
• Super Dimension Century Orguss (1983) - mechanical designer^[4]
• Aura Battler Dunbine (1983-1984) - mechanical designer, theme song lyrics
• Macross: Do You Remember Love? (1984) - mechanical designer^[5]
• Dirty Pair: Project Eden (1986) - mechanical design
• The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012 (1987) - mechanical designer
• Starship Troopers/Space Soldiers (1988) - mechanical designer^[1]
• Gunbuster (1988-1989) - mechanical designer
• Macross II (1992) - original mechanical design
• Dirty Pair Flash (1994-1996) - mecha designer
• Macross Plus (1994) - original mechanical designer^[6]
• Macross 7 (1994-1995) - mechanical and creature designer^[7]
• 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 (eps. 2-13)
• Eureka Seven (2005-2006) - conceptual design
• Glass Fleet (2006) - mechanical designer
• FLAG (2006) - mechanical designer
• My-Otome Zwei (2006-2007) - design
• Kishin Taisen 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^[8]
• The Girl Who Leapt Through Space (2009) - design
• Super Robot Wars Original Generation: The Inspector (2010-2011) - mechanical design
• Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (2013) - conceptual design

References

1. Gundam Century (1st Edition), p.146. Minori Shobo. September 22, 1981.
2. "Playstation Interview: Mechanical Designer Kazutaka Miyatake". Voyager Entertainment. Retrieved 2009-09-22.
3. Miyatake, Kazutaka (2005-06-01). Macross and Orguss Design Works (in Japanese). Japan: Mobic. pp. 3–14. ISBN 4-89601-629-7.
4. Miyatake, Kazutaka (2005-06-01). Macross and Orguss Design Works (in Japanese). Japan: Mobic. pp. 95–109. ISBN 4-89601-629-7.
5. Miyatake, Kazutaka (2005-06-01). Macross and Orguss Design Works (in Japanese). Japan: Mobic. pp. 15–29. ISBN 4-89601-629-7.
6. Miyatake, Kazutaka (2005-06-01). Macross and Orguss Design Works (in Japanese). Japan: Mobic. pp. 30–45. ISBN 4-89601-629-7.
7. Miyatake, Kazutaka (2005-06-01). Macross and Orguss Design Works (in Japanese). Japan: Mobic. pp. 47–80. ISBN 4-89601-629-7.
8. "Infinite Space (Nintendo DS)". MobyGames. 2010-06-04. Retrieved 2015-10-20.

External links

• Kazutaka Miyatake at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Kazutaka Miyatake at the Internet Movie Database
• Kazutaka Miyatake anime at Media Arts Database (Japanese)
• Kazutaka Miyatake entry at Gears Online