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Contact

Management: Ise Hiroto (INS), Alex Zabava (Vertigo)

  • In accordance with the Berlin Code of Conduct, I ask for respectful communication from both sides.
  • I'm especially interested in commissioned work, independent production, music, performing arts, independent animation, academic research, and publishing. Please don't hesitate to get in touch.

When making an inquiry, it would help if you could include the following:

  • An overview of the project and its purpose
  • Budget
  • Schedule

FAQ

Contributions to books and web media
  • I decline all requests for inclusion in annuals or yearbooks that charge a listing fee.
  • If the publication receives payment from the featured party, this must be clearly and visibly disclosed as sponsored content.
  • baku89#icon must be able to reuse the contributed text later, under his own responsibility, for translations, single-author publications, and the like.
Talks and teaching
  • The talk must be publishable afterwards in a form that allows some kind of reuse.
  • If that is difficult, at least the lecture materials or the title of the talk must be publishable.
Limited budgets

Even when the budget is tight, I'd like to be as flexible as I can. In that case, along with the overall budget and a breakdown of each item, please tell me as concretely as possible why the budget is limited and what the circumstances are.

Below are some ways of working I've used so far to keep the quality up within a limited budget.

  • No formal orientation documents are needed. It helps if you can share things early, in detail and in whatever rough form they come in, including financial information and the state of R&D that you wouldn't normally share with a contractor.
  • On my side, I skip proposal documents and presentations. We stay in close contact in a chat that everyone can join, including the client and any related companies, so that as much effort as possible goes into the production itself.
  • Requirements are fixed before production begins, and feedback on the tone of the work, such as creative direction, is not accepted.
  • If someone on your side can take part in the production, in design or implementation, it would help to make the work together.

These terms and this FAQ are released into the public domain. If you would like to include something similar on your own contact page, please feel free to use them without attribution.

The idea of listing these alongside my contact details is influenced by the websites of Mai Shiotani and Syunichi Suge.