Satoshi Kuwahara

Satoshi Kuwahara is one of the storyboard directors for Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL.

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Through Twitter, Kuwahara has answered many questions to fans and commented about his work for the Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL anime. These include: In their old house, Akari is making a living as a freelance reporter. So for that, only her room was remodeled with the latest gears for receiving news instantaneously from around the world. She never leaves the room, yet the latest news would always be available.
 * Rikuo and Kaio's motorcycles - even if only a small scene appeared in the show, the design was quite troublesome. We wanted to design motorcycles that resembled them, Rikuo's had 3-wheels, Kaio's with a slight stylish form.
 * Yuma's older sister, Kari: Last week she rode around in her beloved car, which it is a rare classic car in Zexal's world. In fact, the car was a memento from her father, and she drives it with great care.
 * Even though Yuma has his own room, he choose to sleep in the attic with lots of items that were filled with leftover memories from their parents, and Akari drives her dad's memento car for the same reasons. They must be quite lonely.
 * (referring to the choice of the number of each "Number" card): Together with the staff, it was all made carefully with attention to detail, so that all of you can enjoy it in various places.
 * Yuma and the previous main characters performing together? The previous mains has such a strong presence, I want to train Yuma well so he won't lose against them.
 * In the story: other than seen together with Yuma, Kotori also has lots of female friends. Among them, her good friends are the two girls from the parent-teacher episode (19). There might be more scenes showing the group of three friends in the future.
 * Little by little, the opening now has more and more characters. Have you noticed? It's the results from thinking of how to do the opening, because we want to express that Yuma attracted more friends through his duels.
 * You might have missed it, but Cat-chan was in the opening of the first episode, tiny, watching Yuma from behind a tree.
 * A boring bit of info, but on the monorail that's appeared a few times on Zexal, the trains hangs both on the bottom of the rail as well as run on top of the rail, in two tracks.
 * I've considered changing Kotori's dress in the ED Since the very start, the difficult part was finding good timing for the change. Even so, thanks to everyone's hard work on those original drawing, illustration, finish and filming, and in end creating this beautiful artwork. I can't thank you enough.
 * Since "Family Love" is one of the show's themes, we want to illustrate this with great care. Tokunosuke's family might make a fresh appearance in the anime again in the future, however, but I think he'll be alright now, now that he's by Yuma's side.
 * (referring to the events of [[Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL - Episode 019|episode 19): While I'm not sure of the timing, these events will definitely be touched on in the main story, I believe.
 * For sure, I believe Shark's story is something that'll be done in the future. Parts of his past are being revealed on occasion. Stay tuned.
 * (referring to the school uniforms): Each grade has its own uniform color. Kotori and other girls in the 1st grade is pink, Yuma and the boys are red. There's a hint that upper classmen like Shark wears blue.
 * (referring to Yuma Tsukumo's house): That old house certainly stands out when it's together with all the other near-futuristic structures in their town. I thought about Yuma's parents when creating this setting, so we made it into a house like this.