TRIBUTE TO RYU ASADA || RYU ASADA'S STORIES & WORKS ON HOT WHEELS

Hot Wheels Designer, Ryu Asada Dies of Cancer
27 Mar 2021
This time in the diecast world, especially in Hot Wheels, we have to grieve because they have lost one of the great figures who has left various works.
On Saturday at 9 WIB there was a recent post on his Instagram @hotwheels_ryu which stated that the designer had passed away. In the contents of the caption, it was said that he had previously struggled with Stage IV colon cancer which he had suffered for four and a half years.
A Brief History of the Designer
Ryu Asada was born and raised in Osaka, Japan in 1978-1997. In 1997, he came to the United States to study at the University of Oregon, including studying English and Physics (1997-2000). In 2000, he pursued a degree at the Art Center College of Design - the same design school where top Hot Wheels designers such as Phil Riehlman, Mark Jones, Bryan Benedict, Jun Imai also attended. After graduating in 2004, he started his professional career at Mattel as a designer for Matchbox toy cars where he designed and worked on around 150+ diecast cars, he joined for 8 years with the Matchbox team (2004-2012).
In 2012, he joined the Hot Wheels team and started working on a project for the cheapest basic car. His first project at Hot Wheels as official designer was the '67 Chevy C10 which was also a new car for 2013. Since 2012, it's estimated that Ryu worked on about 20 to 30 New Models every year. Until the end of his life, referring to the Hotwheels Wiki, he had worked on designs for Hot Wheels for 143 cars.
Some examples of handcrafted Hot Wheels cars from Ryu Asada. Including his first design as an official designer, namely the Chevy C10 truck (rear left corner)
Some examples of handcrafted Hot Wheels cars from Ryu Asada. Including his first design as an official designer, namely the Chevy C10 truck (rear left corner)
Throughout his career, he has designed various cars, be it real cars or fantasy cars. He is also one of the most influential designers in both Hot Wheels and Matchbox, as he has designed a number of cars from Japanese manufacturers. So that this is increasingly growing enthusiasm among collectors, especially young people, to get closer to Japanese cars or JDM (Japanese Domestic Market).
But of course he did not only design toy cars from his own country, but also vehicles from the United States such as muscle cars and various exotic sportscars from various parts of the European continent.
Goodbye, Asada-san. Thank you for all your work and great influence on small-scale automotive culture!

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Hello!I am a childhood friend of Ryu Asada.I appreciate very much that you made this video.What language are you speaking?I would like to translate it and share the beauty of his work with people in Japan.
He was a very nice and gentle person and we are still missing him.

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RIP

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