Yukiyoshi Hane: In It For The Money

Dear a majority of anime fans the world over, I am telling you an abridged version to the story behind one of the anime industry’s own shrewdest and most astute ever freemium lancers, Yukiyoshi Hane. 

Not everyone knows about him before he began his career as a troubled but brilliant business minded animator. However, he began his career by animating a shit ton of scenes for the Little Prince and the Eight Headed Dragon Orochi. 

Finally, he got his big break near the end of 1972. It was when he was animating and character designing two very different shows, one a relatively much lighter and softer adaptation to Osamu Tezuka’s Triton of the Sea, and the other being a considerably much wackier yet more merchandise-driven adaptation to Go Nagai’s brilliant but long-troubled Mazinger Z. But midway through season 2’s airing schedule, he awkwardly but slowly got replaced as a character designer by a dude called Keisuke Morishita, himself an otherwise mediocre animator on his own. Although he initially did not get along well with his replacement, their relations have slowly eased through time anyway and it helps that the last two seasons of said show have much better artwork, which is thanks to Keisuke Morishita and his much craftier acquaintances. 

Hopefully, he did not run out of money for a long while, but that’s up until the 90s were coming to a close. In the 1980s and 90s, he worked for a lot of anime films and tv shows by animating some of their scenes, just without anyone noticing. At the end of the 1990s however, he unceremoniously ran out of money and temporarily became a hobo looking for something to work with. 

But said thing turned out to be an infamous cult called Happy Science, Known as HS for short. Thus he had to keep on catching some of the money that he needed for his own retirement, mainly by animating a lot of scenes for a few of the cult’s own otherwise entertaining Golden Laws franchise of animated films. After that, he animated certain scenes for a shit ton of tv shows and movies in order to retire comfortably. 

The lesson turns out to, in other words, to be something else entirely. In order to retire comfortably, just deal with any and all of the most dangerous risks in a constantly messed up industry.