Hey! I Heard That Sonoda Kenichi DidnT Create Bubblegum Crisis! Is This True?
Sonoda Kenichi did not create Bubblegum Crisis. He worked on character and mechanical designs for the first four episodes, and assisted on production designs on the last episode. The reason he is credited with character designs on episodes 5-8 is that character designs he did for episodes 1-4 were reused. Gooda Hiroaki and Urushibara Satoshi designed all the new characters in episodes 5-8. Sonoda is also credited with the character designs in Bubblegum Crash for the same reason, i.e., old character designs of his were recycled. Also, Sonoda was second choice for this job; he was tapped only after Artmic’s first choice, Amano Yoshitaka (known for his character designs on such features as Gatchaman, Mospeada, Vampire Hunter D and Tenshi no Tamago), turned it down because he didn’t want to do mechanical designs. The series was created by Suzuki Toshimichi, founder and president of Artmic, and author of the screenplays for episodes 5-7.
