A very special interrogatory with Tatsuro IWAMOTO!

After several “Objection!” stretchings, the public is good and ready to welcome the chara-designer of Phoenix Wright! After few minutes, it is in company of his interpret and with a thunderous applause that Tatsuro IWAMOTO arrives on the video game stage.

Real success story, the famous series of Phoenix Wright has begun with a small team and a low budget, which can explain the polyvalent role of IWAMOTO: dubber (Benjamin) and chara-designer for the game. The latter is mainly dealing with the resolution of inquests and very animated debates at the tribunal… a place where IWAMOTO ventured at two occasions: the first time with his university and the second time for the game. His first visit in this lively place was enough to breathe life into the unforgettable taste of justice.

No more Heroes, rings a bell to you? Well, it is the chara-designer of this well-known video game, Yusuke KOZAKI, that Tatsuro IWAMOTO considers as his biggest rival. So, when we suggest an eventual collaboration with him, it is a decision to deliberate! 

Gifted with a great sense of humor, he gives a precious advice to all the people who wish to do the same job as him: “If this person really wishes to succeed in this field, then I won’t have job anymore, so it would be better to stop right now!”

Inspired by all the manga he read since his childhood, and influenced by the work of Yoshida AKIHIKO or even Yoshitaka AMANO (Final Fantasy), the famous character-designer doesn’t know the writer’s block: “Even if I have no inspiration, I force myself to draw.”

Message to the players, if you too you ask yourself what the difference between a ladder and a stepladder is, well, sorry, it's not IWAMOTO who will give you the answer: "They look the same, so take a close look at them!" 

While painting with his brush on the easel, Tatsuro IWAMOTO answers to the many questions coming from the public. He, who confides in the public having felt stressed during the live drawing in company of YOSHIKI, it is with passion and with clear and precise moves that he manages to make his brush dance on the paper. It is masterfully that the characters of Phoenix, Hunter, Maya, and Pearly are illustrated on the paper.

Seven years part the two universes of d’Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney and Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulation, the characters evolved but without their creator, difficult to digest for IWAMOTO: “I prefer not to look at them, it makes me feel awkward.”

Having left CAPCOM, it is currently on projects that he describes as being secrets that he works, but he already evokes his intention to draw a manga, a case to follow very closely…