honored with a special award for lifetime achievement at the 44th Japan Academy Film Prize in 2021. He also received a lifetime achievement award at the 2022 film awards held by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. Yasuhiko stated that the 2022 film Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island, which he directed, would be his last work in animation. Style As a child, Yasuhiko was particularly fond of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's art. His own manga are known for their action scenes. Yasuhiko does not create memos, sketches or names in advance, he draws directly onto manuscript BB Kent paper in pencil. Unusually, after deciding the page's panel layout, he begins by drawing characters' faces. Also unusually, he inks every part of his manga with a Sakuyo brush, except the panels, which are done first with a fineliner pen. He goes through two or three brushes for a 30-page chapter. Yasuhiko said he does not know how to use white ink, so he inks around negative space that he leaves in. Michael Toole of Anime News Network wrote that by defining the look of Gundams characters, Yasuhiko also defined the look of science fiction anime characters in the 1980s in general by extension. Yasuhiko signs his artwork as "YAS". Filmography Television Wandering Sun (1971) (character design) Zero Tester (1973) (animator) Space Battleship Yamato (1974) (storyboards) Brave Raideen (1975) (character design, animation director) Wanpaku Omukashi Kum Kum (1975) (screenplay, original creator, character design, animation director) Combattler V (1976) (character design) Robokko Beeton (1976) (character design, animation director) Zambot 3 (1977) (character design) The Adventures of the Little Prince (1978) (character design) Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) (character design, chief animation director, key animation) Shiroi Kiba White Fang Monogatari (1982) (character design, animation director) Giant Gorg (1984) (chief director, storyboard (eps. 1, 4), original creator, character design, animation director) Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985) (character design) Super Atragon (1995) (character design) Strange+ (2014) (end credit illustration for ep. 8) OVA Kaze to Ki no Uta Sanctus: Sei Naru ka na (1987) (director, storyboard) Crusher Joe OAV (1989) (character design) Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (2009) (original character design, illustrations for the original light novel) Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (2015) (chief director, storyboard eps. 1–4, original manga, character design) Film Crusher Joe the Movie (1983) (director, script, screenplay, storyboard, character design, animation director) Arion (1986) (director, character design) Venus Wars (1989) (original story, director, character design) Mobile