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Shinji Santoh is known for Transformers Prime (2010), Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising (2013) and Peppy (1987).
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Shinji Santoh (??; Santō Shinji) is a Japanese producer. He worked with Polygon Pictures to help produce episodes for Transformers: Prime. Producer Transformers: Prime
Mar 3, 2012 · Who are they? Mr. Shinji Santoh (right), Producer. Ms.Meiko Sato (left), Line Producer. (The gentleman in the centre is Mr. Hiroyuki Hayashi, Japanese Director of the show) – Firstly, tell us about your company, Polygon Pictures. Santoh: The majority of our work is in creating animations.
This sonic experience is the reveal film for the first ever Lexus all-electric car. The creative challenge was to express the imperceptible side of nature through sound, exemplifying the erosion between driver and natural world.
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Shinji Sato (born 佐藤伸治, Satō Shinji; February 16, 1966 - March 15, 1999) was a Japanese musician born in Tokyo, Japan and was best known as the vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for his rock group Fishmans. Sato was also notable for his production work in the band, as well as with musicians such as MariMari. Sato was largely known for his unique stage presence, falsetto vocals and dedication to his craft. When Sato passed away, he was 33 years old.
Sato was born and raised in the Setagaya area. In his youth, Sato was very active and sporty, taking after his older brother. According to his mother, Nobuko Sato in The Fishmans Movie, he was "a child who didn't listen... he had a sense of independence, but he didn't listen very much and went his own way. He spoke honestly." In grade school, he played baseball as player 38. He was good childhood friends with Yo-King (Yoichi Kuramochi) who referred to Sato playfully as "Sato-Shin-kun", who remembers him as chic, cool and easygoing, similar to Fishmans' music. Sato's first time performing in front of an audience was in the sixth grade, where he sang at his uncle's wedding. Beside him, his brother played guitar (then in the eighth grade). It was also in grade school where Sato bought his first instrument, a blue bass guitar. He acquired the instrument independently from his family, who questioned his purchase. He grew defensive and professed his love for the bass guitar, that the color was blue because that was his favorite color.
Growing up, Sato found himself listening to a lot of western music, specifically reggae and hip hop. Sato enrolled in Meiji Gakuin University some time in the 80s, and soon joined musical collective Song Lights [ソング・ライツ] where he would eventually meet Kin-Ichi Motegi and Kensuke Ojima. It was during this period that Sato grew a fascination specifically with Japanese dub producer Kazufumi Kodama, who founded reggae band Mute Beat. Sato's roots belong in rock group 時間, a band he participated in from 1985 before founding Fishmans with his two aforementioned friends in 1987. Later Sato would also meet Yuzuru Kashiwabara in the same club, and would meet Hakase-Sun in 1990 while performing alongside his band Mustang A.K.A.. Sato would continue with Fishmans for the remainder of the 80s and a great majority of the 90s, releasing a multitude of works under the band and performing in dozens of live performances, serving as the group's lead writer and vocalist, as well as secondary guitarist. He would periodically publish his own written poetry through Fishmans' own Pool magazine, under sections titled De La Poet.
In a monologue regarding Sato from Fishmans' Pool, Vol. 22, Masaki Morimoto said of him circa 1998:
3 p.m. on a hot summer Sunday. After yesterday's recording, I put my sleep-deprived body on my scooter to Matsumizaka studio to pick up my things and return to dreamland. The glass door with the red sheet on it was unlocked, and I wondered, "isn't the recording studio supposed to be closed?" I entered the first-floor room, where the two sofas are located, which was empty at that time and filled with a stifling dampness that is more unpleasant than the outside air. I sensed someone on the second floor. For some reason, I sneakily put the notebook I had left behind in my backpack while being careful not to make any noise, and I hurriedly left without being noticed by the person above me. Suddenly, the sound of the door on the second floor opening. And I was startled by the sound of one person's footsteps coming down. He seemed to be recording the vocals alone, wearing shorts and a cap, shirtless, his lean but healthy brown skin sweating like rainfall, he raised his right hand tiredly. He smiled. The sweat on his skin at that time, the energy that surpasses the strong sunlight that you could feel from his smile. And the temperature and humidity that day, the noise of the cars on the street, the color of the sunlight shining into the room, and the fact that he had turned off the air conditioner and recorded his vocals without telling anyone. Everything on that day left an unforgettable impression of summer on me. The image of him at that time is the image of an artist in me.
While Sato was willing to participate in the band as a collective, Sato's creative process became increasingly demanding around 1997. Ojima and Hakase left the band in the mid 1990s, and the band's producer ZAK departed in mid 1997. ZAK's departure followed the particularly difficult production of the band's final album, 宇宙 日本 世田谷, for which Sato brought demos that were so near to completion that the group had little idea how to build on them. In fact, the demo recorded for In The Flight was released as-is on the final album. This was contrary to the band's typical work flow, as they typically collaborated on major parts of the songs, building their songs together. This final album was almost released as a Sato solo project, but instead they treated it as a two-sided work: the first four songs were treated as a Sato solo work, while the final four are more comparable to proper band projects.
•Sato owned multiple pet squirrels throughout his life. Unfortunately, many of them ran away. Their names were all "Masa" or "マサ".
•Despite specializing in guitar and cornet later in life, Sato's roots in musicianship also lie in playing the drums, such as during his work with 時間.
Feb 9, 2021 · the suicide theory has already been debunked. Shinji already had a medical condition and he also had big plans for the band so I doubt he would’ve killed himself.
LOS ANGELES -- (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Hasbro Studios, the Los Angeles -based production and distribution division of Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS), has collected eight Daytime Emmy ® Award nominations from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for Transformers Prime, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Family Game Night .
