Junki Takegami is a Japanese screenwriter. He served as a writer and series compositor for the Ultraman Series during the Heisei era. His real name is Shozo Yamazaki .
Career[]
Yamazaki began to participate in screenwriting work in early 1981, officially debuted under the pseudonym Junki Takegami the following year, and began activities as a freelance screenwriter. To this day, he continues his activities centering on animation and TV dramas.
Since the 1990s, he has been involved in writing the Ultraman Series and the Super Sentai series. His representative works are Heisei Ultraseven from 1998 and 2002.
In 2018, he participated in Ultraman R/B TV series compositor together with Takao Nakano and Satoshi Ito.[1]
Works[]
- Ultraman Tiga (1996-1997) - Writer, 3 episodes
- Episode 11 "Requiem to the Darkness"
- Episode 15 "The Phantom Dash" (original draft by Kazuo Tsuburaya)
- Episode 23 "Dinosaurs' Star"
- Ultraman Dyna (1997-1998) - Writer, 4 episodes
- Episode 6 "The Land's Ultimate Monster"
- Episode 19 "Bird of the Phantom Dream" (original draft by Kazuo Tsuburaya)
- Episode 28 "Simian Forest"
- Episode 48 "Ndamoshite X" (with Masakazu Migita, original draft by Masaki Kyomoto)
- Ultraseven 30th Anniversary Memorial Trilogy (1998) - Writer, 1 episode
- Episode 2 "Eternal Earth"
- Ultraman Gaia (1998-1999) - Writer, 4 episodes
- Episode 8 "The 4,600 Million Year-Old Ghosts"
- Episode 14 "The Challenge from the Anti-Space"
- Episode 32 "The Future Seen Before"
- Episode 44 "The Attack of the Space Monsters"
- Ultraseven 1999: The Final Chapters Hexalogy (1999) - Writer, 3 episodes
- Episode 1 "Legends and Glory" (with Shinichi Kamizawa)
- Episode 2 "The Sky-Flying Iron Colossus" (with Toshinobu Oi)
- Episode 6 "I Am an Earthling"
- Booska! Booska!! (1999) - Writer, 1 episode
- Episode 8 "In Love Tororonchi"
- Ultraman Neos (2000-2001) - Series compositor and writer, wrote 8 episodes
- Episode 1 "Neos Is Born"
- Episode 2 "The Mysterious Dark Matter"
- Episode 6 "Revenge of Alien Zamu"
- Episode 7 "King of the Biosphere"
- Episode 8 "Revive the Earth - HEART To The South"
- Episode 10 "Decide! SX Rescue Operation" (with Takanori Hoshi)
- Episode 11 "The Assassin-Beast from Space"
- Episode 12 "Warriors of Light, Forever"
- Ultraman Cosmos (2001-2002) - Writer, 8 episodes
- Episode 7 "Present from the Sky"
- Episode 9 "Friend in the Forest"
- Episode 12 "The Organism of Light"
- Episode 17 "Trap from Another Dimension"
- Episode 31 "Rescue Gon"
- Episode 36 "The Mountain of Yōkai"
- Episode 44 "Ghighi vs Gon"
- Episode 55 "Final Test"
- Ultraseven 35th Anniversary: EVOLUTION Pentalogy (2002) - Series compositor and writer, wrote 3 episodes
- Episode 3 "Neverland"
- Episode 4 "Innocent" (with Kazuhiko Goudo)
- Episode 5 "Akashic Records"
- Ultraman R/B (2018) - Series compositor and writer,[2] wrote 4 episodes
- Episode 2 "The Bond of Siblings"
- Episode 12 "What We Should Protect"
- Episode 19 "Good People and Bad People"
- Episode 24 "I Am Happy"
Literature[]
- Ultraseven EPISODE: 0 (2002) - Writer[3]
- Ultraseven EVOLUTION (2002) - Writer
- Ultraman R/B Novel: The Blue-Eyed Girl Whose Name is Gray (2019) - Writer[4][5]
Other Works[]
- GoShogun (1981) - Writer
- Dancouga – Super Beast Machine God (1985) - Writer
- Ironfist Chinmi (1988) - Writer
- Dragon Ball GT (1996) - Writer
- GeGeGe no Kitarō (1996) - Writer
- Pokémon anime (1997-2016) - Writer
- Denji Sentai Megaranger (1997) - Head writer
- Seijuu Sentai Gingaman (1998) - Writer
- Kyukyu Sentai GoGo-V (1999) - Head writer
- One Piece (1999-2004) - Writer
- InuYasha (2000-2004) - Writer
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (2000-2002)
- Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger (2001) - Head writer
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX (2004-2007) - Writer
- Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger (2004) - Writer
- MÄR (2005-2007) - Writer
- GoGo Sentai Boukenger (2006) - Writer
- Naruto: Shippuden (2007-2016) - Writer
- Engine Sentai Go-Onger (2008) - Head writer
- Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS (2017) - Writer
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