Original interview from Monthly Newtype (September 2025), original interviewer: Hisashi Maeda; genga from studio ClowerWorks’s official Twitter account. Episode 14: Storyboards and Direction that bring the drawings to life — I’ve been watching you two chat for a while, you seem to get along really well. Yamamoto: Well, we’ve been working together on this project for a […]
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