Interviewing Iku, the Producer of BubuChacha
By Greg

July 14, 2004 The Adventures in Tokyo children had a special guest, Mr. Iku, the producer of the Japanese animation series, BubuChacha.  He brought many pictures and notes that he and his co-workers used in order to create the BubuChacha series.  He explained how he and his co-workers brainstormed ideas for the characters, stories, sound effects and layout for the 52 half-an-hour episodes of the series.  He showed the children some sample drawings of the characters from BubuChacha and described some of the "development process" of animation, which involves continuous revising of the original work.  The GKA children were surprised and in awe when they found out that all of BubuChacha's drawings were hand-drawn, rather than designed and created by computer.