Hisao Nishimoto

Hisao "Curly" Nishimoto (西本尚央) is the TakaraTomy designer responsible for much of the Cyberverse toyline. He has incredible hair.

Known design work

Transformers (2010)

• Reveal the Shield Deluxe Class Optimus Prime (his first Transformers design)

Dark of the Moon

• Pretty much the entire Cyberverse assortment.

Masterpiece Movie Series

• Jazz

Known convention appearances

• BotCon 2011
• Toy Fair 2012
• Toy Fair 2015
• Transformers Expo Taipei 2015

External links

• Report on the 2015 Transformers Expo Taipei with Nishimoto as a guest of honor at Seibertron.com
• Report on Nishimoto's presentation at the 2015 Transformers Expo by the GJ Dream blog (Chinese)
• Report on a 2019 Masterpiece Movie Series presentation in Shanghai with Takashi Kunihiro at chohenken.com, a Japanese fan blog

Interviews

• November 16, 2011 "TRANSFORMERS: Interview with the Designers" feature on the TakaraTomy YouTube page, with Hironori Kobayashi and Hisashi Yuki (Japanese, subtitled)