Masaaki Sakurai
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| Gender: | Male |
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| Date of birth: | December 10, 1948 |
| Date of death: | February 20, 2010 (aged 68) |
| Place of birth: | Tokyo, Japan |
| Nicknames: | ケロヨンちゃん (Keroyon-chan) |
| Not to be confused with an animator with the same name Masaaki Sakurai, who is affiliated with Studio Giants. | |
Masaaki Sakurai (桜井 正明 Sakurai Masa'aki), born in 1948, was a Japanese screenplay writer from Tokyo, Japan. He was formerly affiliated with Waseda University Film Study Group.
Sakurai went to Waseda University (早稲田大学) after he had just graduated from Waseda University Junior and Senior High School (早稲田大学高等学院・中学部). When he was learning at the Film Study Group, he made friends who also had the will to become screenwriters like him, for example, Yutaka Kaneko and Toshimichi Saeki. Moreover, he was graciously being called as "Keroyon-chan". Sakurai became an anime screenwriter after he had worked at an animation production company, named Mushi Production (虫プロダクション). Supposedly, a screenwriter he really admired, Hiroyuki Hoshiyama, was also from a literature club of that company. He passed away on February 20, 2010 due to lung cancer developed from alcohol abuse.[1]
Like other early Detective Conan anime screenwriters, his cases focus on the trick of killing. Incidentally, Officer Sakurai from episode 296 is named after him.
Scenarios written
Number of case scenarios written: 3 (3 episodes)
- A Honey Cocktail Murder Case (Episode 120)
- The Streetcar's Sudden Stopping Case (Episode 148)
- Houseboat Fishing Shock along with Masataka Tsukimawashi (Episode 296)
Other notable works
Anime
- Aesop's World: Screenplay
- Cinderella Monogatari: Series Composition
- Dokkan! Robotendon: Series Composition
- Gekito! Crush Gear Turbo: Screenplay
- Hime-chan's Ribbon: Screenplay
- Kyofu Shinbun: Screenplay
- Manmaru the Ninja Penguin: Screenplay
- Monchichi, the Twins: Screenplay
- Muteki Kojin Daitarn 3: Screenplay
- Muu no Hakugei: Screenplay
- New Gigantor: Screenplay
- Ohayo! Spank (movie): Screenplay
- Ohayo! Spank: Screenplay
- Shirayuki Hime no Densetsu: Screenplay
- Speed Racer X: Screenplay
- Tanoshii Moomin Ikka: Bōken Nikki: Screenplay
- Three Little Ghosts: Screenplay
- Time Bokan: Screenplay
- Voltron: Scenario
References
- 桜井正明 - Wikipedia (Japanese)
