Shouichi Masuo

Affiliated with Studio Kharahttps://anilist.co/studio/47/ at the time of his passing. After some time with Studio Giants at the beginning of his career in the early 80s he went freelance. In 1984 he served as an assistant animation director on Macross: Do You Remember Love?https://anilist.co/anime/1089/. During the films production he met Hideaki Annohttps://anilist.co/staff/100111/ who had just moved to Tokyo. Masuo and Anno quickly became friends and established Studio Graviton together with their fellow colleagues Katsuhiko Nishijimahttps://anilist.co/staff/103059/ and Kouji Itouhttps://anilist.co/staff/101166/. At Graviton Masuo came to the limelight as the mechanical animation director on Project AKohttps://anilist.co/anime/212/. After Graviton he moved to Gainaxhttps://anilist.co/studio/6/ where he worked as an assistant director for Royal Space Forcehttps://anilist.co/anime/1034/ and as a unit director on Gunbusterhttps://anilist.co/anime/949/. Through the 90s and early 00s Masuo served as a key staff member in many of Gainaxs works until moving to Studio Khara in 2006. He passed away from an undisclosed illness on July 24 2017. Source: Wikipedia