Taku Furukawa

古川タク

Official Website He is an illustrator and picture book writer and is currently the representative director of the JAA, the Japanese Animation Association (日本アニメーション協会). Originally pulled towards manga after graduating from college with a major in Spanish due to his fondness for Steinberg and Tezuka, Furukawa's future was at first tentatively redirected upon seeing the stylish animated TV ads by Yanagihara Ryohei and Wada Makoto, and then firmly determined by his encounter with the mature experimental films shown at the Animation Sannin no Kai. Furukawa had done some part time work for TCJ on…