//Yasuo Otsuka, groundbreaking Lupin III animator and mentor to Studio Ghibli's founders, dies at 89

Yasuo Otsuka, groundbreaking Lupin III animator and mentor to Studio Ghibli's founders, dies at 89

Studio Ghibli forever changed the way Japanese animation would be viewed in the world, but Yasuo Otsuka forever changed how its founders—Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata—would view animation. The groundbreaking animator and educator has died at age 89.

Announced by Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki, Otsuka died of