Seiichi Hiruta (蛭田成一) is a Japanese producer.
Biography[]
Hiruta co-produced Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Z: Broly - The Legendary Super Saiyan, Dragon Ball Z: Broly - Second Coming, and Dragon Ball GT. He was a planner for the movies Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly, Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn, Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon, and Dragon Ball: The Path to Power.
The name of the main villain from Wrath of the Dragon, Hirudegarn (ヒルデガーン), comes from Seiichi Hiruta, who did not like the original design of Hirudegarn. After he demanded that they redesign the character, his jaw dropped when he saw the new design. The sound effect for a "jaw dropping" in Japan is gaan (ガーン), so they named the character "Hiruta gaan" (蛭田ガーン).[1]
Seiichi Hiruta also did the planning for the Dr. Slump movies Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: N-cha! Love Comes From Penguin Village and Dr. Slump and Arale-chan: N-cha!! Trembling Heart of the Summer, as well as for Gegege no Kitarō: Yōkai Tokkyū! Maboroshi no Kisha, and Tamagotchi Honto no Hanashi.
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- ↑ Daizenshuu 6, 1995
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Dr. Slump Production Staff | ||
Authors | Akira Toriyama | |
Assistants | Hisashi Tanaka • Takashi Matsuyama | |
Editors | Kazuhiko Torishima | |
Directors | Tokizō Tsuchiya • Minoru Okazaki • Akinori Nagaoka • Kazuhisa Takenouchi • Daisuke Nishio • Mitsuo Hashimoto • Shigeyasu Yamauchi • Yoshihiro Ueda • Yoshiki Shibata | |
Producers | Keizo Shichijo • Matsuji Kishimoto • Kōzō Morishita • Tomio Anzai • Tsutomu Tomari • Tan Takaiwa • Seiichi Hiruta | |
Screenwriters | Satoru Nishizono • Masaki Tsuji • Michiru Shimada • Shunichi Yukimuro • Yasushi Hirano • Tomoko Konparu • Takao Koyama • Toshiki Inoue • Keiji Terui • Yoshifumi Yuki • Aya Matsui | |
Art directors | Mitsuo Shindō • Hiromitsu Shiozaki • Yuji Ikeda • Shigenori Takada | |
Anime designers | Toyoo Ashida • Sachio Ebisawa • Minoru Maeda • Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru • Tadayoshi Yamamuro • Shinji Koike | |
Key Animation | Masayuki Uchiyama • Hiromi Matsushita • Mamito Tayama • Yasuhiro Nakura | |
Special Effects | Hidenori Arai | |
Music composers | Shunsuke Kikuchi • Takeo Watanabe |