Mitsuo Fukuda
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Mitsuo Fukuda (福田 己津央, Fukuda Mitsuo, 福田 満夫 prior to 1990) (born 1960) is the director of Future GPX Cyber Formula, Gear Fighter Dendoh, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny.
He first joined Sunrise in 1979.
Fukuda has been credited with the revival of Gundam's popularity with Gundam Seed after two straight commercial failures in After War Gundam X and Turn A Gundam. Fukuda is a huge fan of Gundam series creator Yoshiyuki Tomino and his works including the aforementioned Turn-A Gundam. He is also a huge Star Wars fan and tends to apparently look to these films for inspiration.
However, he has been criticized both by people who work for him and the public for his reliance on his wife, Chiaki Morosawa, for writing the shows he directs. Fukuda has denied any sort of favoritism, however, explaining in multiple interviews that, "I fell in love with her scripts."
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