# Overall Series Discussion
**^^^Rewatch ^^^concluded ^^^April ^^^1st, ^^^2023**
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Although I don’t believe it necessitates stating, please conduct yourself appropriately and be courteous to your fellow participants.
**Note to all Rewatchers**
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**Staff Highlight**
Takeyuki Kanda – Director and storyboard artist
> A director, storyboard artist, and animator best known for his contributions to the mecha genre. Takeyuki Kanda’s life and early career isn’t widely documented, but it is known that he joined Mushi Pro in 1966 and participated in the production of *Wonder Three* as his first contribution to a production. After the bankruptcy of Mushi Pro Kanda became a freelancer, working with a variety of studios, but had a particularly close working relationship at Studio Sunrise due to his connections with the Mushi Pro alumni present there. Kanda’s participation on Sunrise’s contracted production work on mecha series like *Brave Raideen* and *Super Electromagnetic Robo Combattler V* was instrumental to the course of his career, but before his largest claims to fame were made he had his directorial debut on the 1978 adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s *Le Petit Prince*, which he co-directed with Kôji Yamazaki. The next year Kanda was tasked with picking up directorial duties on *The Ultraman* from episode fourteen onward, which became his first big hit. However, it was with 1981’s *Fang of The Sun Dougram* that Kanda became a star director, becoming a heavily requested director by sponsors looking for talent to helm mecha anime productions, namely Bandai. Throughout his prominence as a mecha anime director Kanda continued to work on other genres —namely for children— having directed episodes of *Doraemon* TV series as well as directing the theatrical film *Doraemon: What Am I for Momotaro*, directed *Shiroi Kiba: White Fang Monogatari*, * Dragon Quest*, and *Fun Moomin Family* among others. Kanda was thought of highly by other directors and production staff, but such praise was not without grumbles as to his demanding standards and comments on his drinking and smoking habits. Takeyuki Kanda died on July 27th, 1996 after being in a car accident. Kanda’s death put several productions on hold, which were then assigned to or picked up by other directors. The twelfth and final episode of *MObile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team* and the production of *Round Vernian Vifam 13* were dedicated to the late director, who was directing the former and had begun production on the latter.
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