| 1 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shoaikawa.jpg]] |
| 2 | '''Noboru Aikawa''' (born on August 9, 1965), better known by the main of his multiple pen names, '''Sho Aikawa''', is a quite prolific Japanese writer, scripwriter, editor and radio personality. He's a true veteran of the anime scene, having debuted in TheEighties and still going, but also diversified into LiveActionTV and [[{{Toku}} tokusatsu series]]. He wrote many novelizations and spinoff novels of works he had part in, and provided the script for several manga series, audio dramas and video games. There are simply not many things Aikawa has ''not'' done in the world of animanga. |
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| 4 | Aikawa might be the most prestigious anime staff member you have never heard about, except when he has been criticized or caused controversy. He could be considered the anime version of Creator/PaulWSAnderson, the kind of writer you hire in order to make someone else's anime and/or just churn out watchable crap - yet at the same time, he left his mark in history in the form of dark, nasty and politically provocative plots whenever he was given the freedom to. His thematic work is pretty varied, having a hand in such divergent titles like ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'', ''Anime/AngelCop'' and ''Urotsukidoji'', but as you can note in his resume, he was quite at home in the ultra-violent 80s {{OVA}} boom. |
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| 6 | He is a coinosseur of the western culture, being a fan of American ComicBooks, and has often controversially resorted to employ Nazi imagery as a mean to draw attention to his works. This trait is present in which is possibly the best known of his modern works, the [[Anime/FullMetalAlchemist2003 first anime adaptation]] of ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist''. |
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| 8 | Not to be confused with actor and composer Show Aikawa. |
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| 10 | !!Anime works |
| 11 | [[index]] |
| 12 | * ''[[Anime/DaimajuGekitoHaganeNoOni Daimajū Gekitō: Hagane no Oni]]'' (1987) - Original concept |
| 13 | * ''Urotsukidoji'' (1987-1989, 1991-1992) %%cut by P5 |
| 14 | * ''Anime/MaryuuSenki'' (1987-1989) |
| 15 | * ''Anime/StarshipTroopers'' (1988) |
| 16 | * ''Anime/DragonCentury'' (1988) |
| 17 | * ''Manga/ViolenceJack Evil Town'' (1988) |
| 18 | * ''Manga/PeacockKing'' (1988-1989) |
| 19 | * ''Manga/VampirePrincessMiyu'' (1988-1989) |
| 20 | * ''Anime/JushinLiger'' (1989) |
| 21 | * ''Manga/BloodReignCurseOfTheYoma'' (1989) |
| 22 | * ''Anime/KyomuSenshiMiroku'' (1989) |
| 23 | * ''[[Anime/DogSoldierShadowsOfThePast Dog Soldier: Shadows of the Past]]'' (1989) |
| 24 | * ''Anime/AngelCop'' (1989-1990) |
| 25 | * ''[[Anime/BubblegumCrisis AD Police Files]]'' (1990) |
| 26 | * ''Anime/DemonicBeastFront'' (1990) |
| 27 | * ''Anime/GenoCyber'' (1993) |
| 28 | * ''Manga/SorcererHunters'' (1993) |
| 29 | * ''Manga/MyDearMarie'' (1996) - Original concept (with Sakura Takeuchi) |
| 30 | * ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'' (1996-1997) - Base planning |
| 31 | * ''Anime/NeoRanga'' (1998) - Original concept |
| 32 | * ''Manga/LoveHina'' (2000-2001) |
| 33 | * ''Anime/HiwouWarChronicles'' (2000-2001) - Original concept |
| 34 | * ''Manga/AngelicLayer'' (2001) |
| 35 | * ''Manga/ShamanKing'' (2001-2002) |
| 36 | * ''Literature/TheTwelveKingdoms'' (2002-2003) |
| 37 | * ''Anime/StrangeSteelFayRouran'' (2002-2003) - Original concept (with Toshiki Hirano) |
| 38 | * ''Anime/{{Fullmetal Alchemist|2003}}'' (2003) |
| 39 | * ''Anime/{{Simoun}}'' (2006) - Original concept (with several other authors) |
| 40 | * ''Anime/AyakashiAyashi'' (2006-2007) - Original concept |
| 41 | * ''Anime/EurekaSeven'' (2012) |
| 42 | * ''Anime/FutureCardBuddyfight'' (2013-2015) |
| 43 | * ''Anime/ConcreteRevolutioChoujinGensou'' (2015-2016) - Original concept |
| 44 | * ''Anime/CardfightVanguard'' (2019-2020) |
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| 46 | !!Live action works |
| 47 | * ''Series/JikuuSenshiSpielban'' (1986) |
| 48 | * ''Series/UltramanTowardsTheFuture'' (1993) - Main Writer |
| 49 | * ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'' (2003-04) |
| 50 | * ''Series/KamenRiderBlade'' (2004-05) - Main writer (second half) |
| 51 | * ''Series/GoGoSentaiBoukenger'' (2006-07) - Main writer |
| 52 | * ''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger'' (2007) |
| 53 | * ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'' - Main writer (movies) |
| 54 | * ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'' (2009) - Main writer (first half) |
| 55 | * ''Series/KamenRiderWizard'' (2013) - (Guest writer for [[PostScriptSeason episodes 52 & 53]], which feature the return of Decade) |
| 56 | * ''Series/ResshaSentaiToQger'' (2014) |
| 57 | [[/index]] |
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| 59 | !!Tropes about his work |
| 60 | * DarkerAndEdgier: A staple of all his works, born in the time where anime and manga were the darkest. |
| 61 | * GodOfEvil: A prominent choice for the GreaterScopeVillain in his works. |
| 62 | * {{Metafiction}}: A lot of his work indulges in this, to the point he admitted not to be able to write something without giving it some sort of meta-commentary about tropes of the story. |
| 63 | * WriteWhatYouKnow: His MO, according to him. |
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