Macross Mechanical Designer Survives House Fire, Wife Passes Away

Danica Davidson May 25, 2021

This past weekend a fire broke out at the home of mechanical designer Kazutaka Miyatake. The cause of the fire is still being investigated. Miyatake survived and was hospitalized, but his wife, 60-year-old Tomoko Watanabe, unfortunately died.

Miyatake remains in the hospital as of the news report, but is not in danger of death.

The 71-year-old has a long list of mechanical design work. You can see his designs in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross show and The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? movie, as well as Space Battleship Yamato, Arcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit SSX, Macross Plus, Macross 7, Aura Battler Dunbine, The Super Dimension Century Orguss, Gunbuster. In addition, he did conceptional and artistic design for Macross Frontier, Macross Frontier: Sayonara no Tsubasa, Eureka Seven, Star Blazers 2199, and RahXephon.

Source: ANN

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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, and its sequel, Manga Art for Intermediates, with professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.