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Masatomo Sudo (須藤 昌朋 Sudō Masatomo), born January 28, 1961, in Hokkaido, is a Japanese anime director, and character designer. He is best known for designing characters for the anime series Detective Conan and for his involvement with the anime series Lupin III. He is the character designer for the Detective Conan anime series since its inception in 1996, except for a short period of four years from episodes 356 to 504, where the work was done by Mari Tominaga. He also works as character designer and chief animation director for the movies. Later, he also worked as character design supervisor for Zero's Tea Time anime. Active since 1980, he landed irregular animation jobs for various series before being animation director for the first time in 1994. Shortly after, his career expanded, and he joined the Detective Conan production team. While still being the character designer for the series, he worked with other television animation projects in the 2000s, including Hamtaro, Angel Heart and Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple. Since 2007, Sudo works exclusively in the production team of Detective Conan. Read more...
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Beautiful Fins (美しい鰭 Utsukushii Hire) is a song by rock band Spitz that was released on April 10, 2023 as digital single and on April 12, 2023 as CD single. The song is featured as the ending theme for the 26th movie, Black Iron Submarine. With Masamune Kusano as voice and guitar, Tetsuya Miwa as second guitar, Akihiro Tamura as bass and Tatsuo Sakiyama as drums, it was written and composed by Kusano and arranged by the band and Seiji Kameda as their 46th single. The digital single peaked at 3rd position on the weekly Oricon Chart, while the regular version peaked at 4th.
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