Japanese screenwriter Marie Okada in the anime industry became famous as a cult personality. She created scripts for computer games, audio shows and anime films. Her work, Ano Hana, is awarded the special prize of the Animation Kobe festival.
The directorial debut of the famous author was the project "Decorate the farewell morning with the flowers of promise." For two decades, Marie has been creating dramatic anime stories. Okada has become one of the most famous and successful authors of the industry.
Road to vocation
The biography of the future celebrity began in 1976. The girl was born in the city of Chichibu. At school, the relationship of the child with peers was not easy. Marie was very worried, tried to find her image, but all her attempts did not help to establish contact.
The only salvation for the girl was her ability to literary work. One of the works of a schoolgirl won the contest held by the newspaper. Marie decided that she would receive a writing education. Until the end of the school year, the girl was told that in real life she would have a hard time.
As a result, she decided to leave her hometown. After moving to Tokyo, she began studying at the School of Media Entertainment with a degree in Video Game Writer. At the same time, Okada became interested in creating stories for anime. In 1996, she began creating Direct-to-video scripts. Then came the work of the transcriptor of the interview. This lesson helped the girl get her first order on the anime. She was invited to participate in the science fiction project DT Eightron in 1998.
The director, Tetsuro Amino, drew attention to the employee deciphering the finished scripts. He invited her to make her own changes to the course of the film. Okada composed the plots of several episodes. After the completion of cooperation, the main activity of the novice writer became anime.
In 1999, Amino Marie proposed the idea of an autobiographical film "The World Outside" of the story of a reclusive girl. Although the project was never implemented, it was an important stage for revealing your own story through anime.
Success
Marie created the scripts for The Black Butler, Toradora, Baby Time, and The Vampire Knight. Even the work with the original series was completely controlled by the producers. While working on True Tears and Simon, the girl received more freedom. This allowed her to reflect her own feelings in the script.
The result of an innovative approach was the 2011 project "The ABC of Flowers." The source for the creation of the project was the previously unrealized "Inside World". All previously expressed comments were taken into account by the author. The audience accepted the series enthusiastically. Success helped Okada let go of the past. According to her, the virtue of the anime is that it reflects only part of reality.
Marie began work on an autobiographical project, "These Flowers." She embodied her childhood image in the main character Dzintan. However, the writer did not come to terms with the decision of her colleagues to make the background for the development of the plot her hometown and home. Okada tried for a long time to convince the team, but in the end agreed with their decision. Director Tatsuyuki Nagai did not hide the fact that this project has become personal for the screenwriter, he is completely saturated with her ideas.
The premiere was a success. After the show, Marie received a lot of letters from fans. Among them were messages from Chichibu. Although painful, the contribution to the anime particles of their own lives was justified.
The basis of the new setting, it was decided to again make Chichibu. Now Okada did not mind. But again, she did not want to worry the same way as in the process of working on "These Flowers". The screenwriter decided to make the project less personal. The result was a full-length “Anthem of the Heart”. It was shown in 2015.
New works
In the process, I had to abandon some of Marie's ideas. However, she was moved to tears by the scene of the heroes expressing their feelings. In it, the author saw her emotions. She admitted that the project made her very worried, but in the end it became a salvation.
When creating the “Mobile Armor for Gandam: Orphans of Iron Blood”, the director put forward the main ideas; Okada joined the work only a few years after the start of the series.
In the course of joint activities, the already successful filmmaker became famous as a specialist who brings other people's ideas to the ideal. When working on the "Refuge for the Lost" since 2012, there were too many sketches for the development of plots. The director was forced to rewrite them in the course of work. If not for the arrival of Marie, the telenovela would hardly have received such a successful implementation. From the very beginning, Okada worked on Connected, but Hiroshi Kobayashi changed the traditional action-anime script here too.
