Shinji Nishikawa

Shinji Nishikawa Born October 2, 1964 Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan Occupation Illustrator, designer, storyboardist First work Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989) Notable work Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999)

Shinji Nishikawa (西川 伸司,   Nishikawa Shinji), also known by the pen name MASH, is a Japanese artist. Nishikawa has worked as a designer on the majority of the Heisei and Millennium Godzilla films, starting with Godzilla vs. Biollante in 1989. In addition, Nishikawa has worked on non-Godzilla tokusatsu projects such as Toho's Rebirth of Mothra trilogy, and several recent entries in Tsuburaya Productions' Ultra series. Nishikawa has also illustrated Godzilla-related manga, such as Godzilla: Legend and the Monster King Godzilla manga that was serialized in TV Magazine.

Selected filmography

• Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989) - Biollante designer [with Atsuhiko Sugita, Noritaka Suzuki]
• Mothra vs. Bagan (1990) - Design works [unmade]
• Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991) - King Ghidorah designer
• Godzilla vs. Gigamoth (1992) - Design works [unmade]
• Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992) - Design works [with Minoru Yoshida, Hidemi Miyata, Atsuhiko Sugita, Kunio Aoi]
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993) - Design works [with Minoru Yoshida, Kunio Aoi, Naoshi Yasui, Atsuhiko Sugita, Hidemi Miyata]
• Monster Planet of Godzilla (1994) - Mechanic design [uncredited]
• Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon (1994) - Design works [with Minoru Yoshida, Atsuhiko Sugita, Hideo Okamoto, Yuji Sakai, Hiroshi Sagae]
• Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994) - Design works [with Minoru Yoshida, Ryu Hariken]
• Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995) - Design works [with Minoru Yoshida, Satoshi Imai, Hideo Okamoto, Hideki Oka]
• Rebirth of Mothra (1996) - Design works [with Minoru Yoshida, Hideo Okamoto, Takayuki Sakai, Hideki Oka, Ryu Hariken]
• Rebirth of Mothra 2 (1997) - Design works [with Minoru Yoshida, Hideo Okamoto, Takayuki Sakai, Ryu Hariken]
• Rebirth of Mothra 3 (1998) - Character design [with Yasushi Torisawa]
• Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999) - Design works [with Ryu Hariken, Yasushi Torisawa, Hideo Okamoto, Yuji Sakai] / storyboards [uncredited]
• Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000) - Design works
• Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002) - Design works [with Hiroshi Maruyama]
• Godzilla: Tokyo SOS (2003) - Design works
• The Gransazers (TV 2003-2004) - Design works [with Fuyuki Shinada, Hideo Okamoto]
• The Justirisers (TV 2004-2005) - Design works [with Naoki Ogiwara]
• Godzilla Final Wars (2004) - Storyboards / monster design
• Super Fleet Sazer-X (TV 2005-2006) - Design works [with Futoshi Nagata, Kazusa Masaki, Minoru Yoshida]
• Super Fleet Sazer-X the Movie (2005) - Design [with Futoshi Nagata, Kazusa Masaki, Minoru Yoshida] / storyboards
• Kawaii! JeNny (TV 2007) - Design works
• The God of Clay (2011) - Storyboards
• Ultraman Ginga (TV 2013) - Storyboards
• Ultraman Ginga: Theater Special (2013) - Storyboards
• Ultraman Ginga S (TV 2014) - Storyboards
• Ultraman X (TV 2015) - Storyboards
• Ultraman X the Movie (2016) - Storyboards
• Ultraman Orb (TV 2016) - Storyboards
• Ultraman Geed (TV 2017) - Storyboards
• SSSS.GRIDMAN (TV 2018) - Monster design
• Dream Challenge: Godzilla Appears in Sukagawa (2019) - Storyboards
• SSSS.DYNAZENON (TV 2021) - Monster design
• Brush of the God (2023) - Design [with Akira Takahashi]

Selected bibliography

Illustrator

• Godzilla: Legend (1987)
• Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Adventure (2007-2008)
• Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Adventure Neo (2009-2010)
• Mega Monster Rush: Ultra Frontier (2013-2015)
• Monster King Godzilla (2016)

Author

• Shinji Nishikawa: Drawing Book of Godzilla (2016)
• Shinji Nishikawa Design Works (2019)
• Ultra Star God Series Completion (2021) [with various]

Designed monsters

• Biollante (Godzilla vs. Biollante) [partially]
• Mothra, Bagan (Mothra vs. Bagan) [scrapped]
• King Ghidorah, Mecha-King Ghidorah, Dorat, Godzillasaurus (Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah)
• Gigamoth (Micro Super Battle: Godzilla vs. Gigamoth, Godzilla vs. Gigamoth) [scrapped]
• Mothra Larva, Battra, MBAW-93 (Godzilla vs. Mothra)
• Rodans, White Rodan, Transforming Mechagodzilla (Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II) [scrapped]
• Mechagodzilla [partially], BabyGodzilla (Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II)
• Utsuno Ikusagami, Amano Shiratori, Kumasogami, Kaishin Muba, Yamata no Orochi [partially] (Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon)
• AstroGodzilla (Godzilla vs. AstroGodzilla) [scrapped]
• LittleGodzilla, SpaceGodzilla [partially], MOGUERA [partially] (Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla)
• Anguirus, Ghost Godzilla (Godzilla vs. Godzilla) [scrapped]
• Barubaroi (Godzilla vs. Barubaroi) [scrapped]
• Godzilla Junior, Super X3, CLT-95, Destoroyah [partially], G-END [scrapped] (Godzilla vs. Destoroyah)
• Desghidorah, Garugaru (Rebirth of Mothra)
• Dagahra, Ghogo, Barem (Rebirth of Mothra 2)
• Aqua Mothra, Armor Mothra, Eternal Mothra, Fairy, King Ghidorah, Cretaceous King Ghidorah (Rebirth of Mothra 3)
• Godzilla [partially], Millennian, Millennian UFO (Godzilla 2000: Millennium)
• Megaguirus, Meganulon, Meganula, GX-813 Griffon, SGS, Dimension Tide (Godzilla vs. Megaguirus)
• Kiryu, Godzilla's skeleton (Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla)
• Kiryu, Liopleurodon [scrapped], Kamoebas, Mothra imago and larvae (Godzilla: Tokyo SOS)
• Anguirus, Rodan, Mothra, King Caesar, Ebirah, Kumonga, Kamacuras, Minilla, Hedorah, Manda (Godzilla Final Wars)
• God of Clay (The God of Clay)
• Ghoulghilas, Mecha Ghoulghilas, Dévadadan, Anti (Kaiju Form) (SSSS.GRIDMAN)
• Agnitor (Dawn of the Monsters)

See also

• Minoru Yoshida

External links

• Twitter account
• Interview by David Milner (December 1995)
• Interview by Toho Kingdom (November 2018 to January 2019)
• Shinji Nishikawa holds first Solo Exhibition in Shibuya

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