# Shibrava? Exploring the charm of working, playing, and living in Shibuya

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Illustrator, art directorHajime Anzai

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1953 Born in Tokyo. 1975, it completed a Kuwasawa Design Design Department. Engaged in illustration and character design, magazine series, Sotei, animation, and narration. Since 1992, TV Asahi "Tamori Club" mishearing addition to starring in the hour, music band "chocolate baby's," "FOOLLENS (Furenzu)", "arbitrarily tourism association" with Jun Miura, the exhibition was to "work" on the theme band "OBANDOS (Obandosu)" such as during expand the variety of activities.

In addition to working as an illustrator and art director, Mr. Hajime Anzai familiar even as Soramimisuto of TV Asahi "Tamori Club". Such as the recently also put a force on the music activities, extends the width of the increasingly ambitious activities. Speaking of the encounter of Anzai-san and Shibuya, it dates back to the spent youth "Kuwasawa Design". We were told to free up that hope in the future of Shibuya in the future from the memories of student days.

Place to play since the beginning of the mulberry Sawa was Shibuya much

- The memories I first visited the Shibuya?

If there is a good friend group in junior high school, the first kana that came along with that person, et al. Something also I went Roppongi, at that time it's a good one is better of the local Ikebukuro, and. I department store is loved. At that time dating, because had been around from the top of the department store to the bottom. Then Shibuya came is, perhaps, it is time to have an extra byte in high school one year. Tremendous old Koen-dori, if there is a suspicious likely come out even a detective story building, there was the office. I was pushing the seal at the time of the contract, if this is not it dangerous, and I think we would have been sold, I was scared. But Extra of bytes quite well, I think I had get is about 5,000 yen per day. Since the waiting time was almost, is not a bad amount Once you have at the time. I have been kept waiting in a large room, or "political study because'm a high school student!" In like a grandfather actor that old, I had been well tampered with (laughs).

- Time began to play in Shibuya?

Once Cisco slope analog record shop has been integrated.

Since the beginning of the mulberry Sawa, play location is much Shibuya. It had been around just a record store. Now it was no longer quite small, I was wandering the record shop per Udagawacho. Every day, but I get a lunch from the parent, eat the cheapest over buckwheat at Shibuya Public Hall of the basement cafeteria, and spend the day to buy a Coke from the vending machine of Kuwasawa, I was able to buy one of the records in one week It's (laughs). Probably because you did not eat and think now, it was skinny like a lie. Because I have cut 50 km away. Recently, it was discovered bell bottoms that I bought around that time, thin and waist much laughable (laughs). T-shirt is Patsunpatsun like a controller. After, I attended terrible to Books shop that was in the Shibuya Seibu "Art Vivant". At that time, I did not think too much about the future work, I had a dream that I want to make a vague record jacket. Yokoo Tadanori admiration in the presence. So to record also had seen only a jacket, I was there is really interested in the design of the Books. But English did not know, not tired at all be watching from the edge of the shelf until the end, a few hours I had spent in the calm. It was absorbed in the time that is, I can say that now become the foundation.

Chaos city Shibuya that those miscellaneous holds

- Does the Shibuya at the time and now, What is the difference between?

It those days, in the center the city did not have a shop with only a trickle. Then I'm surprised and think now, I'm love hotel had gathered behind the Koen-dori. Even now, it from resulting in a pounding and walk that around along with the girl. Now of Shibuya but I feel that the "fashion of the city", the old days Toka pawn shops and grocery, and a small private shop a lot, such as barracks, I liked the feeling that cluttered feeling of life. Because city to luxury sandals from the toilet of sandals has become lumped, walking around and have, I feel that those good things and things like a sense to tell the bad has been polished with nature is. I learned lot in Shibuya of the city. Japan is also the whole town felt very dark and sunset is, I guess the difference with now.

It will be exhibited in Shibuya Station Concourse "Myth of Tomorrow"

There was a bar, but it wasn't a city that you can play all night like now. So when I drink with my friends, I always go to somebody's home. Only 11 men gather in the tatami mat half and drink (laughs). Now and in the past, the way young people drink seems different. In May of this year, the mural of Mr. Taro Okamoto, decorated between JR Shibuya Station and INOKASHIRA LINE , would have been mischief. That was an original picture embedded in the picture of the nuclear plant, but a long time ago, if we were to do it, it was surely drawn directly. It's a weird thing, but it's smart if there's no mischief, and there's no such rage as stepping on the foot. It was an event that felt like a young man now, like Shibuya.

- You feel you are looking at recent Shibuya of young people?

Or appear girl Ganguro, or walking a boy that issued the pants lower the pants, but it is fun. After all, it does not change from the old days. When we can, but I was wearing a jacket that contains the lame wearing bell bottoms of the velveteen of floral, I think I was allowed in Shibuya. The hard is, when you leave the house. I said, or "Do not go out dressed like that," from the mother, would be together surely still be a long time ago (laughs). It is open in Shibuya, it can be expressed. So gather miscellaneous people even now. I It purpose is also a variety of visitors. Fashion and gourmet, Some people come with the aim of art, also uncle to come to look for a guitar, some couples come to the etch. I think that it is a very chaotic city. So without being aggregated into one of the genre, the city that holds the various things is I think a beautiful free and equality. Perhaps it can be said that the ideal city in that sense.

Located on the center of the photo = Yoyogi first Taiikukanmae "Kuwasawa Design". "Design" professional school to support the education of Japan's 1954 founding. Old school building of the time the Anzai's had through is already built destroyed, in 2005, the current new school building was opened.

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