Shinji Higuchi
In the 1980s, the audio-visual side of the Japanese science fiction genre continued to develop. Hayao Miyazaki's "Kaze no Tani no Naushika" (a.k.a. "Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind") and Mamoru Oshi's "" were first screened. On TV, real robot anime series, starting with "Mobile Suit Gundam", were aired, and the science fiction artist group Studio Nue joined the staff of "The Super Dimension Fortress Macross". Animators Hideaki Anno, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Takami Akai, and Shinji Higuchi, who had attracted attention by creating anime that had been exhibited at Daicon III and Daicon IV, established Studio Gainax.