Yasuyuki Ueda

Yasuyuki Ueda (上田 耕行, Ueda Yasuyuki) is a Japanese producer, who works predominantly in anime tv series. He produced and created the concept for the anime series Serial Experiments Lain where he was credited as "Production 2nd".
He first hired Yoshitoshi ABe, who would become a regular collaborator in the future on many other anime projects.
==Biography==
He was a director for the Noel video game, worked on the Lain video game, and also on Wachenröder for the Sega Saturn. 
He is also the person who discover Yoshitoshi ABe giving him the opportunity to gain the spotlight.
During the promotion of the anime tv series Serial Experiments Lain, which he created the concept in 1998, Yasuyuki made a controversial statement saying that Lain was "a sort of cultural war against American culture and the American sense of values we [Japan] adopted after World War II". He explained he created Lain with a set of values he took as distinctly Japanese; he hoped Americans would not understand the series as the Japanese would. This would lead to a "war of ideas" over the meaning of the anime, hopefully culminating in new communication between the two cultures. Later, when he discovered that the American audience held the same views on the series as the Japanese, he was disappointed.
==Notable Works==
Phantom Quest Corp. (1994) 	Anime television series	Assistant Producer
Hyper Doll (1995) 	Anime television series	Producer
Wachenröder (1998) 	Video game 	Designer
Serial Experiments Lain (1998) 	Anime television series	Original Concept & Story, Producer
Serial Experiments Lain (1998) 	Video game 	Original Concept & Story
NieA 7 (2000) 	Anime television series	Producer
Hellsing (2001) 	Anime television series	Executive Producer
Haibane Renmei (2002) 	Anime television series	Producer
Texhnolyze (2003) 	Anime television series	Producer
Ergo Proxy (2006) 	Anime television series	Music Producer
Danganronpa: The Animation (2019)	Anime television series	Executive Producer
==Links==
*Ueda's Lain Blog (archived)
* Interview focusing on Serial Experiments Lain
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