Shingo Adachi (足立慎吾 Adachi Shingo, born July 5) is a freelancer animator and character designer from Osaka. He worked on various Mega Man anime as a key animator, and is the character designer for Rockman EXE Beast, Shooting Star Rockman, and Shooting Star Rockman Tribe.
Story[]
Shingo Adachi attended the film school, Osaka University of Arts. After graduating, he tried to become an assistant at a small TV company but the competition was too fierce and he failed to get a job. Adachi also tried Capcom and Konami to no success [1]. It was then his senior, Mitsuru Ishihara [2], recruited him into anime production.
Shingo Adachi joined Xebec, an animation production company, where his first work was on Martian Successor Nadesico. After 10 years of animating and supervising other animators as animation director, Adachi scored his first major role as Character Designer for Rockman EXE Beast+ [3]. He succeeds Mitsuru Ishihara, who did the previous seasons' designs.
Some time later, Adachi left Xebec to go freelance and went on to do more leading animation roles on other series. His famous works include Working!! and Sword Art Online. He made his series director debut with Lycoris Recoil.
Animation Works[]
Due to changes in the English dub of the MegaMan anime that altered the episode count, the Japanese episode count will be used instead.
- Rockman 8: Metal Heroes
- Animation staff
- Rockman X4:
- Xebec animation staff
- Rockman EXE:
- Animation Director: Ep. #9, #16, #23, #32 (with Akio Takami), #41
- Key Animation: Ep. #1, #7, #13, #23, #53, #56
- Supervision Cooperation: Ep. #12
- Rockman EXE Axess:
- Animation Director: Ep. #17
- Key Animation: Ep. #13, #23, #44, #51
- Full Synchro CF Rockman vs CF Laserman (#51)
- Rockman EXE Stream:
- Animation Director: Ep. #2, #8
- Rockman EXE: Hikari to Yami no Program:
- Animation Director (with Mitsuru Ishihara, Akio Takami, Meiju Maeda, Seiki Tanaka, Shinichi Yamaoka, and Tadashi Sakazaki)
- The Day of Σ:
- Key Animation
- Rockman EXE Beast+:
- Character Designer
- Storyboard: Ep. #16
- Animation Director: Ep. #16, #19, #26
- Shooting Star Rockman:
- Character Designer
- Animation Director Ep. #11, #18, #23, #26, #27, #38, #39, #52
- Co-Animation Director: Ep. #46, #47 (both with Akira Takahashi)
- Key Animation: Opening, Ep. #11, #26, #38
- Harp Note vs Rockman (#11), Cygnus Wing vs Rockman (#26)
- Shooting Star Rockman Tribe:
- Character Designer
- Director: Opening
- Storyboard: Opening
- Animation Director: Opening, Ep. #9, #10, #21
- Key Animation: Opening, Ep. #18, #21
- Orihime and Empty, Misora lipsync, Shinobi throwing shuriken, Ending character shots (Opening), Phantom Black vs Empty (18)
Books[]
Shingo Adachi Artworks cover.
- Ryūsei no Hanashi (流星のはなし, lit. "Shooting Star Story") - Dōjinshi distributed by Shingo Adachi at Comic Market 74 (August 2008) with contents from the Shooting Star Rockman anime.
- R20+5 Rockman & Rockman X Official Complete Works - Guest illustrator.
- Ryūsei no Kizuna: Memorial Illustration Jū (流星のキズナ メモリアルイラスト集, lit. "Shooting Star Bonds: Memorial Illustration Collection") - Guest illustrator. A fan book celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Shooting Star Rockman series.
- Shingo Adachi Artworks (足立慎吾アートワークス) - 2019 artwork book with 16 pages related to the Rockman EXE and Shooting Star Rockman anime.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Adachi drew for all the Rockman EXE Beast+ DVD covers.
- Adachi cites the CF Rockman vs Laserman cut from Rockman.EXE Axess as one his highlights from his early career. [4]
- When adapting the anime design for Shooting Star Rockman, he worked really hard to make them accessible to children. Also when adapting from video games, he tends to simplify by not having many lines or shadows. [5]
- For Shooting Star Rockman; due the heavy scheduling work on the setting reference images, Adachi was unable to work on animation for the show until after episode 10. [6]
- Adachi was disappointed in not being able to draw extra promo art for Shooting Star Rockman as the series did not receive a Japanese home release. [7] So for his Shooting Star Story doujinshi, he drew fan art for all the episode he was animation director of (supervisor of other animators' animations).
External links[]
References[]
- ↑ https://www.japanaradio.com/node/70
- ↑ https://artistunknown.info/2019/09/24/edge2-concept-magic-creators-talk-kiyotaka-oshiyama-and-shingo-adachi-in-conversation/
- ↑ https://tablet.wacom.co.jp/article/drawing-with-wacom39
- ↑ Shingo Adachi Artworks pg.303
- ↑ https://reversethieves.com/2013/08/22/otakon-2013-shingo-adachi-and-tetsuya-kawakami/
- ↑ Shingo Adachi Artworks pg. 262
- ↑ Shingo Adachi Artworks pg. 274