Junichi Miyashita

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Junichi Miyashita

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Profile
Gender: Male
Date of birth: August 12, 1956
Place of birth: Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Location: Tokyo Metropolis, Japan
Position: Screenplay
Organizer
Years active: 1979-present
Aliases: 宮下潤一

Junichi Miyashita (宮下 隼一 Miyashita Jun'ichi?), born August 12, 1956[1], is a Japanese screenplay writer from Tokyo. After graduating from university, Miyashita started a career as assistant director, but later specialized in scriptwriting, starting in the 1970s in police TV dramas, and later shifting to Tokusatsu. He first started scriptwriting for anime series in 1984, and was a writer for Detective Conan as early as the series' inception in 1996. Having written more than fifty scripts for the series, he is one of its more prolific writers, and is known for creating cases focusing on kidnappings and character development, being however less creative with tricks. Since the late 2010s, he has been less involved in the series, but has provided significant contributions, including to the compilation movies released before big screen releases of the annual movies.

Biography

Junichi Miyashita graduated from Yokohama Broadcasting Technical School (横浜放送映画専門学院)[1], currently known as Japan Institute of the Moving Image, where he was classmates with Nobuaki Kishima (岸間 信明) and Yasushi Hirano (平野 靖士), who are also screenwriters. Miyashita's first intention was to be a director, therefore, he worked as an assistant director for TV movies, but after writing scripts for Ishihara Promotion (石原プロモーション), he took this opportunity and studied under the Japanese screenwriter Shuichi Nagahara (永原 秀一). After that, he debuted in the 7th episode of the Japanese TV series Seibu Keisatsu (西部警察) in 1979[1][2][3]. Not long afterwards, under the recommendation of the producer from TV Asahi, he participated in the screenplay writing of some of the episodes of the second part of the TV series Tokusō Saizensen (特捜最前線)[2]. Later on, the producer of Tokusō Saizensen, Seiji Abe (阿部 征司) introduced Miyashita to Nagafumi Hori (堀 長文), who was one of the producers of the series Kamen Rider Black (仮面ライダーBLACK)[2]. As a result, Miyashita became the screenwriter for a Tokusatsu for the first time. From 1990 onwards, he served as the screenwriter for the "Metal Hero series". He was notably the main screenwriter for Special Rescue Police Winspector (特警ウインスペクター), Special Rescue Exceedraft (特捜エクシードラフト), and B-Fighter Kabuto (ビーファイターカブト). He held this position for five years[1], until Tetsuwan Tantei Robotack (テツワン探偵ロボタック) in 1999[3].

In 1984, Miyashita served as the screenwriter of the second season of the anime series Cat's Eye (キャッツ・アイ). Because of this anime, he later on participated frequently in those works that were produced by TMS Entertainment. This made him become one of the veteran screenwriters in the Detective Conan anime. Meanwhile, Miyashita also participated in the flagship company established by Noboru Sugimura and others, in which he attempted to create some game scenarios as well[3]. Miyashita married in 2002[4], and started teaching screenwriting at Tokyo Artist University (東京作家大学)[1]. He also created several webinars, such as Try to create reasoning techniques[5]. In 2018, he published his first novel, named Where the Starving Heart Goes. (餓える心臓の往くところ。), released by Shinnami Publishing[6][7].

Style analysis

Tamanosuke Ito.

As a veteran staff in Detective Conan who has joined the production since its genesis in 1996, Miyashita's styles within his scripts vary a lot. One can find orthodox Honkaku deductions, adventure deductions, social Shakai deductions, among others. Additionally, Miyashita loves writing abduction cases, which is influenced by his early work as a screenwriter for criminal TV dramas. All his works are more inclined towards the traditional style and do not contain complicated tricks, but instead mostly contain character enrichment and story devising. Another aspect of his personal style of writing is that he tends to mingle adventure elements into a deduction story. An example would be The Traveling Drama Troupe Murder Case in terms of the complexity of different theme elements. Due to his main focus being the plot and adventure, tricks and deductions are usually neglected in his scripts. Incidentally, Miyashita sometimes also fancies making a certain character the centre and extending them to make character-centered stories; he has done this with the Detective Boys, Ran Mouri, Kogoro Mouri, and Conan Edogawa already. Also, a character created by him, named Tamanosuke Ito, is very memorable and popular among the Detective Conan fandom as well.

Despite the wide array of styles used in his works, the timeline of his compositions can still be divided into three parts:

Scenarios written

Number of case scenarios written: 56 (76 episodes)

Scenarios adapted from the manga

Number of cases adapted from the manga: 6 (7 episodes)

Magic Kaito: Kid the Phantom Thief TV Specials adapted

Number of cases adapted: 7 (7 episodes)

Note: Also credited as series organizer

Games and Specials

Number of Game scripts written: 1

Number of Specials written: 4

Detective Conan movies

Other notable works

Anime

  • Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto: Screenplay
  • Kingdom S3-S5: Screenplay
  • Kinkyuu Hasshin Saver Kids: Screenplay
  • Mankatsu: Screenplay
  • Project ARMS: Concept Supervisor
  • Puppet Princess: Screenplay
  • Reporter Blues: Screenplay
  • Soreike! Anpanman: Screenplay

See also

References

  1. 宮下隼一 - Wikipedia (Japanese)
  2. Anime News Network
  1. ^ a b c d e "「特別対談 宮下隼一×野中剛」". 『宇宙船』vol.152(SPRING 2016.春). April 1, 2016. ISBN 978-4-7986-1218-8. 
  2. ^ a b c "「スーパー戦隊制作の裏舞台 宮下隼一」". 『スーパー戦隊 Official Mook 21世紀 vol.2 忍風戦隊ハリケンジャー』講談社〈講談社シリーズMOOK〉. June 9, 2017. ISBN 978-4-06-509513-3. 
  3. ^ a b c "「特別対談 堀長文×野中剛」". 『宇宙船』Vol.147(WINTER 2015.冬). December 29, 2014. ISBN 978-4-7986-0942-3. 
  4. ^ "忍風戦隊ハリケンジャー 第13話". 2002. https://web.archive.org/web/20121019051311/http://tvarc.toei.co.jp/tv/user/program/browse3.asp?Command=Old&StrNum=13&SID=160. 
  5. ^ 宮下隼一『ミステリーの手法で書いてみよう』
  6. ^ 宮下先生 作・「餓える心臓の往くところ」
  7. ^ 鷺山京子、宮下隼一、扇澤延男の短編小説を連続配信します!
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