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Shingo Tamagawa is a freelance independent animator who started at studio Sunrise.

As a child, Tamagawa discovered a love of and a talent for drawing, and by the time he had reached high school, he discovered the works of Hayao Miyazaki and Hideaki Anno, both of whom would become major influences on his animation style, where he also learned how animation is dependant on the director and inspired him to work in animation someday. Having graduated from art school, Tamagawa decided to work in the animation industry and began to train to work in the industry, dropping out of graduate school to join the industry.

Joining Sunrise Animation Studio in 2010, Tamagawa worked as an animator for series such as Mobile Suit Gundam AGE and Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, however by 2015 he began to feel as if he was losing his passion as he began to feel that working in the animation industry would make him start to hate his own work, so he decided to simply stop drawing, and for eighteen months he didn't draw a single thing and spent his time reading and taking walks. Yet it was during this period where he began to formulate his own ideas about work of his own, which rekindled his interest in working as an animator, but this time he wished to be fully independent rather than beholden to the animation industry.

Tamagawa came to wider attention in late 2020 when his first short, PUPARIA, was uploaded to his YouTube channel.

PUPARIA became a painstaking project taking three years to compl…