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Zetsuai 1989 Director Takuji Endo Passes Away
posted on by Egan Loo
Animation director and translator Cindy H. Yamauchi reports that her directing colleague Takuji Endo passed away on Wednesday morning. Takuji directed the Zetsuai 1989 boys-love anime video classic (1992) and the Oshare Kozō wa Hanamaru video (1993).
One of Takuji's first projects for the acclaimed Madhouse anime studio was the first Record of Lodoss War video anime series. He would later work on many of the studio's popular titles, such as Street Fighter II: The Movie, Phantom Quest Corp., the X OAV, Patlabor WXIII, Space Pirate Captain Herlock The Endless Odyssey, Texhnolyze, Paranoia Agent, and Tokyo Tribe 2. His final work was Madhouse's Stitch! television series, a spinoff based on Disney's Lilo & Stitch film.
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