His attention to detail and mechanical realism have made his designs still admired upon and used in anime series and related products after several years of their initial appearance in visual media.
Other designs of note have been his Gatlantis Empire spaceship designs for Space Battleship Yamato II and the Zentradi spaceships and mecha from Macross as well as the titular mecha from the Dunbine and Orguss TV series and the Gunbuster original video animation (OVA).
He also created the Mobile Infantry power armor design for a Japanese edition of the Starship Troopers 1959 novel in the 1970s.
[2] This design has been featured in the Daicon III and IV Opening Animations from 1981 and 1983, as well as the Starship Troopers OVA adaptation from 1988.
As a result, he suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning and was taken to hospital along with his wife who later succumbed to her injuries.