{"id":694,"date":"2003-06-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2003\/06\/05\/ask-john-who-is-hajime-yadate\/"},"modified":"2003-06-05T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-05T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-who-is-hajime-yadate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-who-is-hajime-yadate\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Who is Hajime Yadate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nWho exactly is Hajime Yadate?  Is he a person?  I read somewhere that it is in reference to the animation staff at Sunrise.  Can you shine light on the subject?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nHajime Yadate (or Yatate) is not an individual person but a collective name for the anime and manga writers that work at Sunrise Studios. When two or more Sunrise staff writers work on a single project, they are usually credited as the singular &#8220;Hajime Yadate&#8221; instead of being named individually. Credits attributed to Hajime Yadate date back to at least the 1978 anime TV series Daitarn 3 and include the creation or co-creation of shows such as Yoroiden Samurai Troopers, Z-Mind, Cowboy Bebop, Scryed, most of the Gundam series, Iron Leaguers, Cyber Formula GPX, Escaflowne, Outlaw Star, Brain Powerd, Big O, Ideon, Granzort, Ryu Knight, Dagwon, Dunbine, Raijin-Oh, Gaogaiger, and many other Sunrise produced anime series. Manga writing credits include, but aren&#8217;t limited to, the Big O manga, many of the Gundam W manga series, the Cowboy Bebop manga, and the Gekitoh! Crush Gear Turbo manga series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who exactly is Hajime Yadate? Is he a person? I read somewhere that it is in reference to the animation staff at Sunrise. Can you shine light on the subject?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}