空を飛んだ日に

Umeda Ryuji (司？) (Umeda Ryuji), an eighth-term Telecom student who no longer works in animation, is referred to by Utsunomiya as a genius (perhaps a genius among geniuses?). His graduation project from a specialized school at age 19 was a several-minute-long paper animation (paper anime). This realistic and meticulously detailed work left Utsunomiya quite astonished. According to simple research, his verifiable work in animation includes in-betweening for *The BLINKINS, The BEAR and The BLIZZARD* (86), *Bug tte Honey* (86), and *Akira* (88). During the production period of *Royal Space Force*, Umeda's independently produced *"On the Day I Flew in the Sky"* amazed animators at the time and was included in Utsunomiya's best 20 list. Someone asked Kitakubo Hiroyuki over a year ago how to see this animation, but even Kitakubo had no means to obtain it. His manga *"The Child Who Doesn't Laugh"*, published in 1995, is also called a genius work, but it seems to have been out of print for a long time. https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv2742733 Fortunately, the person themselves has uploaded it again!? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA0q_Y_GYUQ https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm36185937