>>55613910Following up on this image; Choji Yoshikawa being there in the writers' meeting gave me a lead on something. Shudo talks a lot about a producer or a "liaison between the staff and toy companies." I thought this was someone from Nintendo or GameFreak, because there are a ton of "producers" for Pokemon. But I thought it might be him given how much time space he gets in Pokemon Story. Nothing confirming, but after going back through some stuff, I have a pretty solid case now.
Picrel is from Dogasu's translation of the column where Shudo talks about Masakazu Kubo's involvement in the Porygon incident. Here he repeats the bit from earlier about the "producer" doing a lot of the things series comp did, but its in the context of the producer being Kubo's representative after the anime started and Kubo couldn't attend writer's meetings (he still attended production meetings though -- different stage). Given the language here about the producer being Kubo's favorite, Yoshikawa's the best pick, since Yoshikawa was also the anime-side producer for "Bakuso Kyodai Let's & Go!," a children's anime about Mini 4WD competitions that was Kubo's first big feather in his cap as a person who produced "hits" for Corocoro/ShoPro. So when going through Shudo's columns, its a fairly safe bet that the three people he refers to by title are:
>Director: Kunihiko Yuyama>That Producer or Gozen-sama's representative: Choji Yoshikawa>Gozen-sama: Masakazu Kubo. I don't know why Dogasu translates "gozen-sama" as "That Person," but he's better at Japanese than me, so. 