Illustrator, video game creator, character designer and animator
Takami Akai (赤井 孝美, Akai Takami, born November 21, 1961) is an illustrator, game creator, character designer and animator born on November 21, 1961, in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, Japan.
Career history
"There are so many shoot-out games. You kill the bad guys and score points. It's been done, and people expect something totally different. This is a long-term game where you make a commitment and create your own world."
Akai attended Osaka University of Arts majoring in fine art . While studying there, Akai created the character designs for the Daicon III opening animation. The main staff for the Daicon III and Daicon IV opening animations went on to create the animation studio Gainax. Akai was in the same class as Hiroyuki Yamaga and Hideaki Anno.
He was a board member of Gainax. His wife is Kimiko Higuchi. He stepped down from Gainax board after an incident in which he and another employee made disparaging remarks about fan criticisms made on the Japanese Internet forum2channel.[2] He runs his own company titled NineLives.
