Souta Sugahara

Websitehttp://www.soogle.biz/ Twitterhttps://twitter.com/sotaSTAFF Youtubehttps://www..com/channel/UCWdesP32iDrWEcwAXHTq4Q niconicohttps://www.nicovideo.jp/user/24853088 Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002118428149 Introduction: Souta Sugahara credited in his earlier works as SOTA is a Japanese multitalent whose work is credited to a wide variety of positions including planning 3DCG animation direction screenplay composition character design graphic design voice acting video production editing manga artist and lyricist. Biography: Sugahara first made his debut in the entertainment industry in 1997 when he formed the indie rock band HAGUKI later known as BDASHhttps://anilist.co/staff/151388/BDASH with the two other members TANAMAN and ARASE. Though Sugahara later left the band he would still be responsible for illustrating their mascot character Toniochanhttps://anilist.co/character/151384 as well as writing lyrics for one of their songs Heiwajima and working on several of their music videos and album jackets. He would still be credited as the bands Golden Member until the bands disbandment. In 1999 at the age of 19 Sugahara made his debut as a manga artist. His CGManga Minna no Toniochanhttps://anilist.co/manga/110231 featuring BDASHs mascot character was serialized for two years in the weekly magazine SPA. One of the chapters of the manga 500 Million Year Button later became well known as an internet meme in Japan and abroad and a number of derivative works were created among fans online. In the early 2000s other than working on music videos album jackets etc. for BDASH he also produced openings movies for TV the shows Blog no Ojou and Webtama as well as jingles for Downtown DX and Mechaike. He also did work as a VJ Video Jockey and won the MOOK01 Award for this work in 2001. In 2004 his first original animated work Minna no Toniochan: FUCK THE WORLDhttps://anilist.co/anime/113335/ a short CG anime episode which aired on the TV network MUSIC ON TV featuring music from BDASH and voice acting from Yuuta Sugaharahttps://anilist.co/staff/151385/ and Reiko Sugaharahttps://anilist.co/staff/151387/ Soutas brother and sister respectively. The same year he made his theatrical debut with the film SOTAWORLD a collection of his works which was screened in a single theater. In 2008 Sugahara started serialization of an original suspense manga Michijigen Dimension Xhttps://anilist.co/manga/122731 in the monthly seinen magazine AZERO. He also produced CG images for the DVD Tsutomu Sekine no Mousou Chikara and began broadcasting Net Miracle Shoppinghttps://anilist.co/anime/124438/ on the MBS TV channel a Silly CG animation program for which he planned composed directed wrote edited designed characters and casted. This year he also released Akarui Sekaihttps://anilist.co/anime/124437/ a Silly CG DVD made for fun with Katsuki Tanakahttps://anilist.co/staff/128207/ under the supervision of Mitsuru Kuramotohttps://anilist.co/staff/173707/. In 2009 DVDs of Net Miracle Shopping were released by Victor and Michijigen Dimension X were published in 2 volumes by Futabasha. Sugahara formed the directors unit Hinokinobouizu with Yasuhiko Shimizuhttps://anilist.co/staff/174527/ and produced the music video for the song Melthttps://anilist.co/anime/119820/ by supercellhttps://anilist.co/staff/103913/supercell feat. Hatsune Mikuhttps://anilist.co/staff/110205/. He also appeared as a video creator on the Fuji Television show BabySmap. This year the DVD SUGAGRAPH/Jibunyouhen was released by TOKYO CULTUART by BEAMS which featured footage from a visit by Tanaka Katuski and Gabin Ito to Souta Sugaharas home and workplace. In 2010 the second season of Net Miracle Shoppinghttps://anilist.co/anime/124439/ was both broadcasted and released on DVD which Sugahara once again planned composed directed wrote edited designed characters for and casted. He also made monthly guest appearances in ChinPom and Sou Ootsukihttps://anilist.co/staff/146029/s workshop Konpei. In 2011 at the request of Seiji Toda he covered Kappahttps://anilist.co/staff/173513/s Yoroyoro feat. Seiko Itou with original gag lyrics and produced the music video Yoroyoro Tamatamahttps://anilist.co/anime/119404/ which was distributed as an OTOTOY New Years gift video. Under the supervision of Mitsuru Kuramoto Sugahara produced the video Chuujin for the 2112 segment of the DVD Pan: Warai no Shinkyouchi. This year the TV Animation gdgd Fairieshttps://anilist.co/anime/11809/ started airing on TOKYO MX for which Sugahara did planning video direction and character designs. In 2012 he participated in the STATION ID project Canvas 2.0.0 and two of his 2012 STATION ID productions Space Shower TV and Bugtta School Mizugi aired on SPACE SHOWER TV. This year the BDs DVDs for gdgd Fairies were released and Sugahara made an appearance on NHK World TVs program imaginenation. He also produced the music video for Z Densetsu: Owari Naki Kakumei for Metal Clone X and did character designs for Boku no Imouto wa Osaka Okanhttps://anilist.co/anime/16405/. In 2013 Sugahara made a guest appearance on the NOTTV program Social Talk Endan with Gabin Ito and Tanaka Katsuki as well as Toshio Tsuchiya and Mitsuru Kuramotos event Art to Warai no Kyoukaisen. This year the BDs DVDs for Boku no Imouto wa Osaka Okan and the 2nd season of gdgd Fairies were released and he did interviews featured in the NOTTV program Anijuuthe Net Debut Handbook Mook. He was in charge of CG and production for the TV programme Hatsune Miku no Miku Miku Make Miku where he appeared in the 4th Miku x Creator corner as well. He also produced the music video for Tamaki ROYs song Wonderful and animated the music video for the BDASH song Zassoukun for whichs album E he also designed the album jacket. The 2009 SUGAGRAPH DVD was also rereleased along with official SUGAGRAPH tote bags and tshirts. Finally he performed as a VJ on the 44th Snack Nagako event. In 2014 Sugahara directed a gdgd Fairies moviehttps://anilist.co/anime/20887/ and two different TV anime series during the Fall season. These being HisCoool SeHa Girlhttps://anilist.co/anime/20830/ and Konna Watashitachi ga Nariyuki de Heroine ni Natta Kekka wwwhttps://anilist.co/anime/20885/ the latter even having a short filmhttps://anilist.co/anime/20886/ screened alongside the gdgd Fairies movie. He appeared on the TsugiAni Fall 2014 event and the TOKYO MX show 5ji ni Muchuu. In addition to this his interviews were published on the radio show SokoAni in the newspaper ILCAPpper Vol.2 twice on AnimateTV and in Dengeki Onlinehttps://dengekionline.com/elem/000/000/967/967631/. In 2015 he made an appearance at the Sehagaga Gakuen: Nouten Chokugeki Yume no Onsoku Popopon Matsuri Treasure Festa in Ariake 13 and Sehagaga Live Soft de Hard na Kanshasai events. At the end of the year Kochinpahttps://anilist.co/anime/21530/ started airing a 15second TV Anime featuring the direction and script of Souta Sugahara made to advertise the pachinko and slot machine parlor Island in Akihabara. In 2016 Sugahara appeared as a guest judge at the 3rd UTAU Works Festival. He also animated several short commercials for T.M Revolutionhttps://anilist.co/staff/95714/s ALL TIME BEST album and did 3DCG works for Yasuhiko Shimizus Nagano DVD: film. He also appeared on the event Sehagaga Live 2 the radio show SegaRadi and had his interview featured in Chinichi ZHI JAPAN 36: No Dou Tokushuu. This year the Complete DVD of HisCoool SeHa Girl released which featured a new OVA episodehttps://anilist.co/anime/122758/ which he also directed and at the end of the year a second season of Kochinpahttps://anilist.co/anime/98090/ started airing again featuring Sugaharas direction and scripts. In 2017 he was in charge of the Music Video for Denki Groovehttps://anilist.co/staff/150337/s song Kao Kawacchatteru. Donkey Town Mix. He also served as the episode director of the Onyankoponhttps://anilist.co/anime/100255/ anime series. In december he participated at the PHYSICAL TEMPO HENTAI event in Harajuku where he sold original goods based on his characters. In 2018 Sugahara directed two new TV anime Devidolhttps://anilist.co/anime/104214/ a sequel to his previous KochinPa shorts and gd Menhttps://anilist.co/anime/100527/ a spinoff of the gdgd Fairies series. A book of the popular 5 Fungo ni Igai na Ketsumatsu released this year was based on several stories from Sugaharas Minna no Toniochan series and he once again appeared on the SegaRadi radio show. There was little activity by Sugahara in 2019 and the following year other than directing two musichttps://anilist.co/anime/131975/ videoshttps://anilist.co/anime/130225/ for bands under his brothers record label. In late 2020 he revealed his lack of activity was caused by him becoming a father and had been spending time raising his child. In addition he is an official researcher for the Adobe sponsored event After Effect Night chairman of the STASH BATTLE NIGHT committee for the monthly DVD magazine STASH guest lecturer for the art school contemporary media training course Genius High School Contemporary Art Seminar and has served on the selection committee for the 8th MMD Cup as well as the MMD Cup ZERO3 events. He was featured in the 2013 2014 and 2015 isues of the Eizousakka 100nin JAPANESE MOTION GRAPHIC CREATORS books. He has a VJ unit called MOVIE BOYZ with Sou Ootsuki Masatsugu Nagasoehttps://anilist.co/staff/191456/ Yasuhiko Shimizuhttps://anilist.co/staff/174527/ and Soichi Nakazumi but it is currently inactive. He was also recognized as a Silly CG Artist in the event BakaCG no Shinjitsu hosted by Gabin Ito and Tanaka Katsuki in 2006. Source: Sugahara Souta Official Home Page translated edited