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Posted On November 26, 2008

What does Yoshiyuki Sadamoto do when he’s not drawing the Evangelion manga? I mean, at the rate he’s working he must have a bunch of free time. He hasn’t worked on much anime lately either so… what the fuck does he do? How does he support himself? Inquiring minds want to know!

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  1. Annubis

    What you don’t mean the delay between volume 8 and 9 I think it was? You know the volume that took MORE THAN A YEAR to get out.

  2. wildarmsheero

    If you average it out the Eva manga has more or less been coming out at a volume per year. Releases were more close together in the beginning, though.

  3. Dr. Who

    When a man such as himself has acquired the amount of finances through manga, anime, and illicit trade royalties, it allows him the luxury of picking his lifestyle activities.

    Hilariously this includes sky diving from an aircraft via dirtbike.

  4. wildarmsheero

    are you fucking serious

  5. Coaxen

    He is probably enjoying being obscenely rich.

  6. Cobrafire

    Counting his money.

    Or, more specifically, watching other people count his money and making sure they don’t fuck up the count.

    So I was watching The Wire. Sue me…

  7. wildarmsheero

    Why am I under the impression that Sadamoto isn’t terribly wealthy?

  8. harakiri

    I don’t think he’s that wealthy either. I mean, he has been working for an animation company that’s constantly struggling to see the next day. I doubt he made much money from his work at Gainax.
    On the other hand I wonder why Gainax didn’t hire him for Shikabane Hime but let someone other do Sadamoto-like designs for the series. Is he too expensive for them now?

  9. wildarmsheero

    >>On the other hand I wonder why Gainax didn’t hire him for Shikabane Hime but let someone other do Sadamoto-like designs for the series. Is he too expensive for them now?

    Yeah, seriously. That what I’m wondering. I actually checked the credits to see if it was him, but of course it wasn’t. Gurren Lagann designs were also pretty Sadamoto-like, except less so.

  10. harakiri

    I think Nishigori designed a lot of crazy looking characters in Gurren Lagann that Sadamoto would have never depicted and Nishigori’s style isn’t that similar in my opinion. I think Sadamoto would not have been the appropriate choice for Gurren Lagann.

  11. wildarmsheero

    Yeah, but some characters have a Sadamoto look about them. Like I said, the influence is there, but just less so.