Max Watanabe, thirty years leading the figure industry
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2018
- TODAY'S GUEST
Max Watanabe, Modeler
PLACES WE WENT TO
Yellow Submarine, Akihabara Area
Cittec / Cafe Galibier, Minowa Area
Choshi Marina Triathlon, Choshi Area
今回のゲスト
MAX渡辺、モデラー
訪れた場所
イエローサブマリン、秋葉原周辺
Cittec / Cafe Galibier、三ノ輪周辺
銚子マリーナトライスロン、銚子周辺
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Max Watanabe is a modeler, writer and founder of Max Factory, one of Japan’s leading figure manufacturing companies. Starting his career as a writer at a young age, we will learn about the beginnings of Max Factory, which started as a gathering of friends in a small apartment. Max is also the inventor of the "figma" series, which still stands to this day at a big leap of innovation in the industry.
We will then head towards Yellow Submarine in Akihabara, a store specialized in figures and plastic models, that Max has known since the early days of Max Factory.
Besides being passionate for figures and plastic models, Max also actively practices triathlon, training at the Cittec cycling gym to improve his bike times, essential for a better race, one of which we followed Max to in Choshi, on the eastern side of Chiba prefecture.
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Max Factory’s Official Website (Japanese)
www.maxfactory.jp/ja/mxf/
Max Watanabe on Twitter
/ maxwatanabe
Yellow Submarine’s Official Website (Japanese)
www.yellowsubmarine.co.jp/shop...
Cittec / Cafe Galibier’s Official Website (English)
cittec.net
please interview Kazuma Kaneko!
こういう作業ドキュメンタリー大好きなんだよねわかるかな？人が手作業してるの見るの大好きなんや
I hope you'll interview amazing Japanese composers: Yugo Kanno, Shiro Sagisu, Yoshihisa Hirano, Kotaro Nakagawa, mangakas: Kubo Tite, Hirohiko Araki, Hiroyuki Takei.
プラモデル師匠ですねホビージャパンで 完成のたのしみを 教えてもらいました。
マジっすか。Max渡辺氏とか、なんでもアリですね！
Walter Watanabe desu.. 😀👍
Figma Yuyu Hakusho please
Totemo tanoshii shigoto desu. 😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩 💚💛💙💚💛💙
まあ凄い人は全部が凄いって事だな
当たり前だけどワークのポリパテ今は使ってないんだね～～～
It's funny, I just have this image in my head now that every company has a team of business men just soullessly crunching numbers all day to maximize sales. This guy just seems to really enjoy his craft, and isn't just taking a backseat when it comes to the production.
So THIS is the man responsible for taking most of my money...
As a model maker myself I have to say that this was really beautiful. The cinematography felt like we were just a fly on the wall and un-obstructive to his daily life. Thanks for making this.
This episode is beautiful. Most of the figures I have are made by MaxFactory/GoodSmile and I never thought about the life of the people who made those figures, now I realize they still being humans with needs and problems they should face every day.
He seems like a really good and interesting person! The things he says about balance and about not being "complete" sound very honest and relatable...Thanks for another great video!
I love how real artists always manage to encapsulate their way of thinking about life when they talk about their craft.
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The part about working with his dad to make plamodels while his mother was sick was just too precious man..
Max Watanabe sensei has always been a great inspiration to scale modellers like myself. I have great admiration and respect for this man: the modeller, the sculptor, the artist, the model company manager, the editor of Hobby Japan magazine and recently the triathlon participant. Thank you for sharing. Greetings from Malta.
Love the humbleness. What a great man.