Kaoru Shintani，Shintani served as an assistant to anime legend Leiji Matsumoto. In return, Matsumoto made Shintani into a character in two of his works: Shintani was a cook in Uchû senkan Yamato (1974) and later became Yattaran in Uchû kaizoku kyaputen Hârokku (1978). See more trivia »