Tatsufumi Itou

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/Tastufumi_Itoh) | [Wiki (jp)](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/伊藤達文) While still in Morioka, he and three of his friends produced a short anime film titled Bakuhatsu Choujin Kanada Man (爆発超人・金田マン), which was inspired by renown animator [Yoshinori Kanada](https://anilist.co/staff/106398/). The film was screened at an amateur film festival in 1985 and subsequently featured in the anime magazine Animage. In 2008, he married fellow animator [Mariko Itou](https://anilist.co/staff/120064/), and changed his name to Itou. Passed away from a brain hemorrhage on May 23, 2020.