Yasutaka Tsutsui
Satoshi Kon was born on October 12, 1963. Due to his father's job transfer, Kon's education from the fourth elementary grade up to the second middle school grade was based in Sapporo. Kon was a classmate and close friend of manga artist Seihō Takizawa. While attending Hokkaido Kushiro Koryo High School, Kon aspired to become an animator. His favorite works were "Space Battleship Yamato" (1974), "Heidi, Girl of the Alps" (1974), "Future Boy Conan" (1978) and "Mobile Suit Gundam" (1979), as well as Katsuhiro Otomo's "". Yasutaka Tsutsui served as an influence on Kon's drawings. Kon graduated from the Graphic Design course of the Musashino Art University in 1982. During that time, Kon viewed numerous foreign films and enthusiastically read Yasutaka Tsutsui's books.