Filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli met with anime director Kazuto Nakazawa and visual effects specialist Rui Kuroki for a discussion on the creative processes behind the making of Japanese animation during his stay in Japan for a special screening of RRR, he said in a social media post on Thursday.

“I was always curious about the process and making of fantastic Japanese anime. Thank you Rui Kuroki-san and Kazuto Nakazawa-san, for the wonderful time. Thoroughly enjoyed our creative discussions. Looking forward,” the 50-year-old director wrote alongside a picture with Nakazawa and Kuroki in which the three of them can be seen smiling.

Nakazawa, best known by his pseudonym Takeshi Tsuji, has directed and designed characters for popular anime series like B: The Beginning and Fena: Pirate Princess. His other works include Parasite Dolls, the anime sequence in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Volume 1 and the fifteen-minute-long Moondrive segment in Genius Party Beyond.

Kuroki, on the other hand, is known for collaborating with Nakazawa on the hand-drawn anime sequence in Kill Bill, which unfolds the backstory of the vengeful O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu). Besides, the artist has served as a producer for the anime film Psycho-Pass: The Movie and the action series Reideen.

Apart from attending the RRR screening, Rajamouli and Karthikeya have been actively interacting with fans and sharing updates about the filmmaker’s upcoming endeavour SSMB 29 starring actor Mahesh Babu.