Hisashi Yuki
Hisashi Yuki (幸 日佐志 Yuki Hisashi) is a toy designer at TakaraTomy who joined the company in 1992, just before Generation 2 began. His first Transformers work was the Beast Wars II series, during which he was one of the only members of the Takara team developing Transformers for the Japanese market.
Of all the toys Yuki has designed, 2001 Robots in Disguise Optimus Prime holds a special place in his heart. He was responsible for coming up with the "shake hands" combination sequence between this Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus, and even went to a series staff meeting to ask the director personally to ensure the scene would be featured in the Omega Prime combination sequence.
He designed MP-4's trailer in one night[1] and MP-5 Megatron in twelve days.[2] He really wants to do MP Ginrai.
When he designed the Universe Sunstreaker and Sideswipe toys, he disagreed with Hasbro's concepts and instructions that both robots would be exactly the same, only differing in their heads. He came up with the simple (yet very effective) idea of turning the torso around to give the two Autobot brothers their distinctively different torso designs.
Yuki was responsible for naming the Unicron Trilogy the "Micron Trilogy" in Japan, after TakaraTomy decided that Galaxy Force (the Japanese version of the Cybertron series) was part of the Unicron Trilogy after all, as Hasbro had envisioned.
Fiction
Legends World
The Yuki of the Legends World was among the Transformer toy designers present at the Transformers Celebration 2014, where they handed out autographs. Rattrap, who admired him for his work on Lio Convoy and Big Convoy, was elated to get him to sign his toy. Legends Bonus Vol. At some point, Yuki was riding the train with Shogo Hasui and the two were taken aback by Rattrap's new robot body. Bonus Edition Vol. 1 Much later, Yuki was among the citizens eaten by Trypticon and used as a living battery. Bonus Edition Vol. 43
After the Legends World was destroyed, Yuki ended up in the G1 World's Cybertron in 2038, where he witnessed Violengiguar's attack. The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 2 After that threat was dealt with, Yuki watched on as the Autobots, Zamojin, and Legends refugees restored the universe. He was one of several people whose wishes were channeled through White Leo's MVP Weapon to aid in the recreation. Epiloge
Toys that Hisashi Yuki is known to have had a hand in designing
Beast Wars II
- C-16 Lio Convoy
- D-16 Galvatron
- D-23 Hellscream
- D-24 Max-B
- D-25 Dirgegun
- D-26 Thrustor
- and responsible for the development and localization of items except Moon, Gigastorm, Ikard & Tako Tank and Narikiri toys.
Beast Wars Neo
Car Robots
- C-001 Fire Convoy
- C-002 Wildride
Binaltech/Alternators
Masterpiece
- MP-4 Convoy Perfect Edition (trailer only)[1]
- MP-5 Megatron[2]
- MP-24 Star Saber
Henkei! Henkei!
- Megatron (colour layout)
Universe (2008)
(all with Bill Rawley)
Revenge of the Fallen
- Blazemaster
- Mixmaster (Voyager)
- Scalpel
- Sideways
- Sideswipe/Sgt. Epps (Human Alliance)
- Skids and Mudflap - both concept car toys and ice cream truck.
- Skids/Mikaela Banes/Arcee (Human Alliance)
- The Fallen (Voyager)
Transformers (2010)
Generations
Dark of the Moon
Transformers Go!
Age of Extinction
Transformers Legends
- and localization.
Transformers Unite Warriors
- New and retool toy development and localization.
Transformers Adventure
- Some toy localization.
HasLab
Known convention appearances
- Transformers Cybertron Con 2010 Shanghai
- BotCon 2014
External links
- Translated interview with Takara's Henkei! Henkei! team
- Translated interview from TakaraTomy's site
- Translated interview on Revenge of the Fallen work from Transformers Generations 2009 Volume 3 on TFW2005.com
- Translated interview with Yuki on his Masterpiece work.
- Translated interview on Haslab Star Saber at Hasbro Pulse
- Hisashi Yuki's Twitter feed (Japanese)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 TakaraTomy Staff Interview - Hisashi Yuki on Masterpiece: Even more horrifying was the plan of reissuing MP-1 to go with Megatron - simply reissuing him wasn't considered to be appealing enough and it was decided to give him a trailer...I was told to come up with a proto (of the trailer) by the end of May, and I designed it in one night. [...] I couldn't shirk my task as the release date had already been set by backward calculation. I really did the best I could though there just wasn't enough time.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 TakaraTomy Staff Interview - Hisashi Yuki on Masterpiece: - I hear the first Masterpiece figure you created was MP-5 Megatron and you hold the fastest development record with it. [Yuki]: That is right. (*laughs) I was not assigned to be in charge of it initially, but due to the circumstance within the company I was unexpectedly handed down the project. The schedule came with it and I was stunned when I realised that I was only given 12 days, about 2 weeks...To make it worse, at the time of my receiving the task, even the product size wasn't decided. (*tears)
- ↑ Hasbro Pulse Fan First Friday 8/27/2021
