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