Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Yoshiyuki Tomino is a Japanese mecha anime creator, animator, songwriter, artist, director, screenwriter and novelist. He was born in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, and studied at Nihon University's College of Art. He is best known for creating the Gundam anime franchise. Career Tomino, began his career in 1963 with Osamu Tezuka's company, Mushi Productions, scripting the storyboards and screenplay of the first Japanese anime television series, Tetsuwan Atomu. He later became one of the most important members of the anime studio Sunrise, going on to direct numerous anime through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Tomino is perhaps best known for his transformation of the "Super Robot" mecha anime genre into the "Real Robot" genre with 1979's Mobile Suit Gundam, the first in the Gundam franchise. He has also won numerous awards, including the "Best Director" award at the recent 2006 Tokyo International Anime Fair. Two anime series directed by Tomino won the Animage Anime Grand Prix award. Tomino is known for using numerous pseudonyms for miscellaneous staffing roles that he performs in his works, including Minami Asa and Minoru Yokitani, which are used to credit himself for screenplays and storyboards he creates, Rin Iogi, which he uses to credit himself for theme song lyrics he writes. Tomino has collaborated with artists such as Yoko Kanno, Asei Kobayashi, MIO and Neil Sedaka. Tomino is noted for directing several well-known anime series throughout his career, such as his most notable work, the Mobile Suit Gundam series, beginning in 1979, and which was later followed onto numerous sequels, spinoffs and merchandising franchises, Aura Battler Dunbine, Brave Raideen, and numerous others. His newer work includes Brain Powerd, Turn A Gundam, Overman King Gainer and most recently, Gundam Reconguista in G. = 1970s= Tomino made his directorial debut with 1973's Triton of the Sea. This show, loosely based on Osamu Tezuka's manga Blue Triton, showed a different perspective than the traditional "good vs. evil" show. The star, Triton, a 10-year-old boy, is the last survivor of the Tritons, a tribe from Atlantis that was wiped out by the "evil" Poseidons. However the viewers learn later on that the story was not so black and white after all. In 1975, Tomino worked on Brave Raideen, his first mecha work, in which he directed the first 26 episodes. Raideen was renowned and influential in its innovative portrayal of a giant machine of mysterious and mystical origins, and has gone on to inspire numerous other directors and series, including Yutaka Izubuchi's 2002 series, RahXephon. Tomino also later worked on 1977's Voltes V. While many of the series Tomino has directed throughout his career contained an upbeat and positive tone, in which the majority of the protagonists survive, a number of his shows during the early years of his career contained endings in which a significant number of characters and protagonists died. In 1977, Tomino directed Zambot 3; in its final episode, a large number of the protagonists kill themselves to defeat the main antagonists. By doing so, the main protagonist survives and the Earth is saved. Certain sources cite this series as the origin of a nickname used by some anime fans, "Kill 'Em All Tomino", although it should be noted that Tomino had directed and worked in a number of series in which the vast majority of the protagonists survive. In 1979, Tomino directed and wrote Mobile Suit Gundam, which was highly influential in transforming the Super Robot mecha genre into the Real Robot genre. Mark Simmons discusses the impact of Gundam in his book, "Gundam Official Guide": In an interview published in Animerica magazine, Tomino discusses what he was trying to accomplish with Mobile Suit Gundam: Although the last quarter of the show's original script was canceled and it had to be completed in 43 episodes, its popularity grew after three compilation movies were released in 1981 and 1982. Mobile Suit Gundam was followed by numerous sequels, spin-offs and merchandising franchises, becoming one of the longest-running and most influential, popular anime series in history, being chosen as No. 1 on TV Asahi's "Top 100 Anime" listing in 2005. = 1980s= In 1980, Tomino directed Space Runaway Ideon, a series which like Mobile Suit Gundam was cancelled on its initial run, but featured movie versions later on. The final Ideon movie, 1982's Be Invoked ends with all of the characters dying and the home planets of both the heroes and villains being destroyed. However, the series he immediately directed afterwards, Xabungle, contained a much more lighthearted and upbeat theme, with the vast majority of the characters surviving, in stark contrast to Ideon. Tomino followed Xabungle with 1983's Aura Battler Dunbine which featured an ending where a large number of characters were killed. Tomino's next show, 1984's Heavy Metal L-Gaim was again a stark contrast to this theme, with all of the heroes surviving. In 1985, Tomino directed the first sequel to 1979's Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. This show once again featured Tomino's "Kill'em All" bent, particularly in the last few episodes. Tomino's involvement in the following Gundam series, 1986's Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ created an upbeat, comedic theme whereas the earlier Gundam's are of a darker theme. In 1988, Tomino concluded the saga begun in Mobile Suit Gundam with the Gundam motion picture Char's Counterattack. This was another Tomino feature in which most of the heroes were killed. = 1990s and 2000s= Tomino would direct an additional Gundam motion picture, Mobile Suit Gundam F91 in 1991. This movie, which took place 30 years after Char's Counterattack, re-launched the Gundam saga in a new direction by featuring a completely new cast. In 1993, Tomino directed his next Gundam series, Victory Gundam, which attempted to relaunch the Gundam saga with a completely new cast. Like Zeta Gundam before it, this series featured the deaths of a large number of the protagonists. However, this was to be the very last Tomino series in which this was to happen. Each of the series he directed and created afterwards contain much more upbeat and lighthearted themes in which the vast majority of the protagonists survive. In 1996, Tomino wrote and directed Garzey's Wing, and in 1998 wrote and directed Brain Powerd. In 1999, he returned to Gundam with Turn A Gundam and in 2002, directed two compilations movies for it entitled Turn A Gundam I: Earth Light and Turn A Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly. Also in 2002, he directed Overman King Gainer, and in 2005, Tomino directed 3 compilation movies summarizing the events of 1985's Zeta Gundam. His last major original work in the 2000s was the 6-episode OVA The Wings of Rean, which first premiered on the Internet across Bandai Channel, the broadcast beginning from December 12, 2005 with the final episode starting on August 18, 2006. Also in 2006, Tomino made a special cameo appearance in Shinji Higuchi's tokusatsu film Japan Sinks. At the 2009 CESA Developers Conference, Yoshiyuki used his keynote speech to criticize the gaming industry, citing that video games "bringing no productivity at all" and that "consoles are just consuming electricity", while stressing that game developers need to focus more on quality content rather than advanced technology, comparing it to the modern animation industry. His surprising remarks have sparked mass discussions online. After working on the CGI short Ring of Gundam for Gundam's 30th anniversary in 2009, Tomino returned to the franchise again for its 35th anniversary in 2014 in a new work in which he wrote and directed, Gundam Reconguista in G. Filmography Astro Boy Wandering Sun Triton of the Sea Neo-Human Casshern La Seine no Hoshi The Adventures of Pepero Brave Raideen) Super Electromagnetic Machine Voltes V Invincible Super Man Zambot 3 Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3 Mobile Suit Gundam Space Runaway Ideon Mobile Suit Gundam: The Movie Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space The Ideon: A Contact The Ideon: Be Invoked Combat Mecha Xabungle Aura Battler Dunbine Xabungle Graffiti Round Vernian Vifam Heavy Metal L-Gaim Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack Mobile Suit Gundam F91 Mobile Suit Victory Gundam Garzey's Wing Brain Powerd Turn A Gundam Turn A Gundam I: Earth Light Turn A Gundam II: Moonlight Butterfly Overman King Gainer The Wings of Rean Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: A New Translation I - Heirs To The Stars Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: A New Translation II - Lovers Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: A New Translation III - Love is the Pulse of the Stars Japan Sinks Ring of Gundam Gundam Reconguista in G Discography Mobile Suit Gundam "Tobe! Gandamu" by Koh Ikeda "Eien ni Amuro" by Koh Ikeda "Char ga Kuru" by Koichiro Hori "Kirameki no Lalah" by Keiko Toda "Ima wa O-Yasumi" by Keiko Toda "Kaze ni Hitori de" by Inoue Daisuke "Ai Senshi" by Inoue Daisuke "Beginning" by Inoue Daisuke "Meguriai" by Inoue Daisuke Aura Battler Dunbine "Dunbine Tobu" by MIO Heavy Metal L-Gaim "Time for L-Gaim" by MIO Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam "Zeta - Toki wo Koete" by Maya Arukawa, composed by Neil Sedaka as Better Days Are Coming Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ "Issenman-Nen Ginga" by Jun Hiroe Mobile Suit Gundam F91 "Eternal Wind" by Hiroko Moriguchi Mobile Suit Victory Gundam "Stand up to Victory" Brain Powerd, composed by Yoko Kanno "Ai no Field" by Kokia Turn A Gundam, composed by Yoko Kanno "Turn A Turn" by Hideki Saijou, composed by Asei Kobayashi "Century Color" by RAYS-GUNS "Ojousan Naishobanashi desu" by Hideki Saijou "Tsuki no Tama" by RRET Team "Tsuki no Mayu" by Aki Okui Overman King Gainer "King Gainer Over!" by Yoshiki Fukuyama References External links Nippon Battling Society, in which Tomino is in charge Animefood Magazine Yoshiyuki Tomino Interview Entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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