1984, he won the Best Screenplay Award at the first Japan Anime Awards for Manga Hajimete Monogatari, Magical Princess Minky Momo, and Sasuga Sarutobi. He also worked as a novelist, with his best known work being the Eternal Filena series. He worked with Kunihiko Yuyama, the main director of both works, in the 1990s on the sequel to Minky Momo and later Pocket Monsters. His biggest contribution to the Pocket Monsters (Pokémon) franchise was the creation of Lugia. Shudo was interested in creating a darker storyline for the franchise that he otherwise was not allowed to do when working on the series and hoped that the Pokémon series would be his chance to bring those ideas to life. After Lugia's creation, many changes were made by the staff that Shudo had found displeasing, such as making Lugia male (he considered Lugia female) and interjecting him into the main series of games (Shudo wanted him to be exclusive to the movie). Before, during and after Lugia's creation, Shudo would heavily consume alcohol and tranquilizers, which he claimed cleared his mind when working, and it contributed to his failing health. In his later years, he contributed articles to the website Anime Style and worked on feature films. The materials for the major works he was involved in, such as screenplays, have been donated to the Odawara Public Library in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, where he once used to live. Some of the materials held by the library are on permanent display at the Odawara Museum of Literature. On October 28, 2010, he collapsed after suffering a subarachnoid hemorrhage in a smoking room at JR-West Nara Station in Nara, Nara Prefecture, where he was visiting, and was rushed to the hospital. However, he died on the next day at the age of 61. In 2011, a memorial exhibition titled "In Memoriam of the Screenwriter Takeshi Shudo" was held at the Suginami Animation Museum in Suginami, Tokyo. The 2017 anime film, Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You!, credits Shudo as partial screenwriter in the staff roll, as he wrote the script for the first episode of the TV anime, which was used as the base for the early part of the film. Works series head writer denoted in bold TV Anime Manga Furusato Mukashibanashi (1976) Manga Hajimete Monogatari (1978–1984) Paris no Isabelle (1979) Manga Sarutobi Sasuke (1979–1980) Space Warrior Baldios (1980–1981) Muteking, The Dashing Warrior