The setting document for a phantom animation that never came to be, Kenji Kanamori published his setting documents as a doujinshi under his moniker Ken, all works made between 1985 to even early 1987. This particular book was acquired from M last year, though I hadn't returned to editing it in some time as I wasn't quite sure what this exactly was. The praxis of this series has never been revealed, however, this work clearly demonstrates Kanamori's attention to emulating Yasuhiko's style.

Kanamori produced several doujinshi titles alongside serialized manga as well. Many of Kanamori's pseudonyms are rather bizzare, but have been documented as such:

"Denkousekka Gou, Daihakai-gumi, Tenchi-gumi, Daifunka Goro, Daibakushō Sanshiro, Tango Tsushima, and Jump 4 Million Copies".

Kanamori in his heyday was a rather prolific animator and could be deemed as one of Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's personal assistants and understudies - he was able to replicate Yas' work while working with Yas' production company / studio called "Kugatsusha", a production group (studio) which included talented animators such as Kumiko Takahashi and Gen Sato. Kanamori is closely associated with the 'new' Studio II crowd that was made post the Gundam compilation films and lead by Yas. Kanamori worked on almost every Yasuhiko aligned work in the 1980s and many more by Sunrise though was often left uncredited in later works. Kanamori was exceedingly popular in Animage and Animec, especially for his art of Doris Wave. Kanamori taught animation for several years and returned to animate with Yasuhiko again on The ORIGIN and Cucuruz Doan's Island.

This book has never been documented and the animation itself was never made / animated.

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Additionals:

Kenji was famous for animating this deleted scene from Arion:

https://x.com/retroanimechris/status/1449924389177372673

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=32704 (many of his credits are not listed, but Kanamori worked on Arion, Giant Gorg and Shin Tetsujin 23 for a few episodes).

Kenji's twitter (defunct)

https://x.com/rx78gonta

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