Eiichi Yamagishi (staff)
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| Gender: | Male |
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| Place of birth: | Itoigawa, Niigata Prefecture, Japan[1] |
| Position: | Mangaka |
Eiichi Yamagishi (山岸 栄一 Yamagishi Eiichi) is one of Gosho Aoyama's assistants and has done work for the Detective Conan Special series. Two of these chapters, The Kidnapping Location Case and The White Sandy Beach Murder Case, were adapted for the anime.
He is in charge of designing architecture and technical stuff, like vehicles[2] and weapons[3] and assists Gosho since his first manga.
He has several characters and places designed and/or named after him in their works: He appears as a kitsune-like student at the school in Nonchalant Lupin and got cameos as a member of the "film crew" in the first and last omakes of Magic Kaito. He also has some background cameos. He furthermore shows up as an unwitting customer in Kumo-Otoko's restaurant in Yaiba who gets chased away. There are also several stores named after him in the series. As "Yamagishi-san" he's a member of Shigeo Nagashima's baseball team at Kohnan High School in 3rd Base 4th, as well as a manager of Yoko Okino in Detective Conan and Zero's Tea Time. In the omakes of the second to last series he is "Detective Puppet Yama-chan".
His own works include Cocktail & Bar Course (カクテル&バー講座 Kakuteru & Bā Kōza), a guide to bars and cocktails in the form of a manga, and Secrets of Buddhism (Bukkyō no Himitsu 仏教のひみつ), another guide about buddhism, also in manga form.[4][5]
Trivia
- Yoko Okino's manager from An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case is named after Yamagishi.
References
- ^ "山岸栄一 アーティストページ - TSUTAYA online". http://www.tsutaya.co.jp/artist/00412117.html.
- ^ Super Digest Books#Super Digest Book 80+
Q84: Who decided wich character owns wich car?
A: I decided for Subaru's RX-7 and 360, but it's Yamagishi who decided for the other cars. - ^ Super Digest Books#Super Digest Book 80+
Q70: Does Akai-san have a gun he really likes? He’s always using the one he stole from a Black Org member… When he shot Gin with a rifle, what kind of rifle was it?
A: I should ask my assistant Yamagishi. - ^ 「超入門」カクテル&バー講座 | 原田和子の本･情報誌 - TSUTAYA/ツタヤ
- ^ まんが・仏教のひみつ | 松本義弘の絵本・知育 - TSUTAYA/ツタヤ
