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Honda would have brief key animation throughout the movie mostly animating character acting. One of the most memorable scenes he did is Asuka punching the glass.

Honda would get more work the following year on Miyazaki’s war plane drama The Wind Rises. A deeply emotional film for Miyazaki (even made him cry) Honda handles a beautiful reunion between Jiro and Nahoko. In an interview Honda lamented the fact he had to draw so many characters in the train station, though with Miyazaki’s reassurance he was able to complete it. sakugabooru.com/post/show/11976 Honda had to also design every character featured in the shot, doubling the task at hand.
The same year Honda did something completely antithetical to Miyazaki’s work animating the iconic Ryuko and Satsuki transformations on Kill La Kill

Honda claimed he was admittedly embarrassed animating these scenes which is surprising considering he did quite a bit of fanservice in his early years.

correction by Sushio

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The next year Honda works with Shinichiro Watanabe and Shingo Natsume briefly on Space Dandy Episode 5 sakugabooru.com/post/show/196606\. The same year he would work with Ghibli director Hiromasa Yonebayashi on the fairytale esque When Marnie Was There. sakugabooru.com/post/show/178046\. At the Japan Animator Expos around late 2014 throughout 2015, Honda would work on several shorts. The first one was Nishi-Ogikubo directed by Mahiro Maeda. Hiroyuki Okiura, Shinya Ohira, Toshiyuki Inoue, Shinji Hashimoto, and Honda himself would all team up as the animator’s equivalent to the Justice League in this short.

Honda 5:16-5:36 and did the scene of her waking up at the beginning and waking up at the end.

Honda’s character designs are also featured

Honda talking about making the short

"The deadline was quite tight. Originally everything had to be finished in three months. So it was hard work. So I had to create something from nothing. The character design was relatively easy, but what I wanted to do was Princess Kaguya from Studio Ghibli. I wanted to make animation like illustration, that was what I had in mind. So I wanted to use that for this. So the character design was relatively easy, because of that, but the set up, where do we set the story? I had to come up with something from nothing and we didn't have much time. So I thought, right! I can set this in my own kitchen! So that was the scene, that was the start. I started creating the story, but it took about two months to get there. Then the storyline changed again and changed again and changed again, so until we got the final script it was gone past the first two months! So I think we spend six months all in all and completely ignored the deadline. That was fun!"

The second would be Tomorrow from There directed by Akemi Hayashi a music video for artist Megumi Hashibayara titled “SKY5”.

Honda 3:53 to 4:26 also does a scene of her opening the door

Obake-Chan would be the next short. Honda was the scene of the ghost waking up, and the ghost being a pitcher.

The last and most weird short would be the perverted machine story of Robot on the Road written and directed by Hiroyuki Okiura.

Honda wouldn’t face too many timing corrections by Okiura but him and animator Akira Homna would incur character corrections. Honda at the scene where Mina is trying to take the tablet from Robowo. In between his time working on the expos Honda did animation on Mamoru Hosoda’s The Boy and The Beast. He would animate an exchange of blows between Kyuta and Ichirohiko sakugabooru.com/post/show/209340

The following couple of years Honda would mostly do key animation. One of the more notable titles is Doukyuusei which has some of Honda’s best character acting. The scenes he does harken back to his exaggerated acting in Bubblegum Crisis. Honda’s best work imo is work that balances his realism with his cartoonish sensibilities and this is a perfect example.

It's such a cute scene and warms my heart

4 projects had Takeshi Honda’s pen in 2018, working on Maquia - Where The Promised Flower Blooms, a fantasy epic with a large majority of KA handled by Toshiyuki Inoue, Okko’s Inn with some short scenes by Honda, Ingress The Animation with character sheets, and the last being the park portion of the “Life Ain’t Gonna Lose” section in studio Ponoc’s Modest Heroes. The same year he’d also do artwork on the Evangelion calendar


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While Honda’s character designs did make it into the final installment of the Rebuild films Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0 Thrice Upon a Time he would not do any KA or AD instead the role being passed down to Atsushi Nishigori, Kouichi Arai, and Shuichi Iseki.

For the past 7 years, Takeshi Honda has been working on Hayao Miyazaki’s final film How Do You Live serving as primary animation director. With trust in past projects like Ponyo and The Wind Rises I am sure without a shadow of a doubt that Honda will knock it out of the park considering the stakes involved being the last work of a titanic creator in anime. Honda recently did drawings for the Ghibli Park’s opening in 2022.

Takeshi Honda is absolutely deserving of the title “Shishou 師匠” or “Master”. After showing off with peppy character acting he was able to comfortably transition into fighting animation, and mecha during his time on Evangelion, and kept on improving as time went on. The amount of realistic volume and weight, matched against his clever implementation of more manga-esque cartoony styles is a rough balancing act, but Honda throughout his career has proved time and time again he can do both. After risking it all through not doing what was expected, he then took on AD’ing and then had full control over his work. From his freelancing, to the varied works of Miyazaki, Anno, Oshii, Otomo, Okiura, Maeda, Kon, and Hosoda, Takeshi Honda is a masterclass in character acting and diversity of animation styles under the right direction. He’s regarded in the same league as other realist animators like Hiroyuki Okiura, Tetsuya Nishio, Mitsuo Iso, and Toshiyuki Inoue but also can be just as good at action, in the same vein as Norio Matsumoto. He’s one of the most legendary animators out of Japan, and one of the best cinematic animation directors of all time

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It’s a collab done with the Ghibli Theme Park and Toyota. No animation for it was made just illustrations by Honda

Also there are no rides at the park