Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yoshikazu Takeuchi
It seems there are a lot of mentions of him in Japanese on the net, especially in blogs and on 2ch, but those are not RS. What exists as RS on the net is marginal. Beyond the KansaiScene piece, I've found http://www.cyzowoman.com/2009/05/post_536.html this interview in Japanese, but not many others. His radio show with Kitano Makoto seemed fairly popular, but most pieces on the net talk about Kitano, not him. I personally knew of his book on Daiei TV, but since that first came out in the 1980s, it's hard to find reviews of that. His co-authored work with the right-wing manga artist Yoshinori Kobayashi does have mentions http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/publications/jjrs/pdf/889.pdf here and http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8403.00023/abstract there, but the focus is usually on Kobayashi. In the end, I think the main argument for keeping this is the second criterion for notability in : "The person has created, or played a major role in co-creating, a significant or well-known work, or collective body of work, that has been the subject of an independent book or feature-length film, or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews." Since his novel has been made into two feature-length films (the two versions of Perfect Blue), that would seem to satisfy the conditions
— User:Michitaro, 23:03, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:AUTHOR (Wikipedia:Notability)