[Shin Densetsu]

According to a recent post on Facebook, Tsuyoshi Nonaka of PLEX will be in attendance at the Pacific Media Expo(PMX)! PMX will be held from November 9-11 at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport. In addition to being part of PLEX(which designs Super Sentai toys!), Nonaka is also an accomplished animator, having worked on such series as Shin Mazinger Z! Here is more info from PMX:

"His masterpieces are Toei “Metal Hero Series” and “Super Sentai Series”. (a.k.a Power Rangers) It is needless to say that Tsuyoshi is known as the original designer of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (a.k.a Kyoryu Sentai Zyu-Ranger) in Japan as well as several Kamen Rider series. In addition, he has also created a successful toy series-brand for adults in Japan called “Chogokin-Damashii (a.k.a Soul of Chogokin) and recreated his childhood favorite character Mazinger Z (a.k.a Tranzor Z) as part of collectible die-cast Robot toy series towards the collector, high-end market which are still growing today.

This year, he has shifted his creative base from Asia to North America where he has become the head of “PLEX International Design, US division” working on Power Rangers, Ben 10 and Thunder Cats toy designs for Bandai America Inc. (Cypress CA). The Classic Lion-O (Thunder Cats) figure distributed at San Diego Comic-Con 2011 was designed by him."

This year marks the 2nd time that Nonaka will be in attendance at PMX. He will be taking part in an autograph session and focus panel. What could he be working on for the 20th anniversary of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers? ....

[Blade Raider]

So informative (a.k.a not all that interesting).



I kid, that's neat.

[musicfighter]

So glad I live in SoCal. I got 2 sketches from him at PMC and they were glorious. I really hope he'll be sketching again, but it'll be cool just to see him.

[ZeoRangerV]

Nice, the fact he worked on Shin Mazinger just adds to his awesomeness.

[Sentai]

What are they working on for the 20th? ... No, I think they changed enough. Thanks.

[advance]

They invited that dude who calls himself LittleKuriboh as an industry guest?

I'm sure not going.


Oh, and the link in the first post actually is for 2011. The updated one is: http://pacificmediaexpo.info/2012/

[Baltan II]

Thanks for the heads-up, advance! Fixed that so the link is going to the 2012 page instead.