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Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, Film.
(1941- ) Japanese author, Anime director and sometime lyricist (as by Rin Iogi), whose career spans the entire history of animation on Television in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.
Yoshiyuki Tomino is a Japanese anime director, screenwriter, songwriter and novelist best known for creating the Gundam anime franchise.
Some of his other pseudonyms include Minoru Yokitani, and Manami Asa. A graduate of the Nihon University of the Arts, he joined Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Production as an animator on Astro Boy. He left in the late 1960s to work as an art lecturer and commercial filmmaker, but was subsequently lured back into the anime industry during the recession of the early 1970s.
His directorial debut was on the anime television series Umi no Triton ["Triton of the Seas"] (1972), but he is most famous for his work in the Mecha genre.
The frustration of his ambition to work in live-action film has fostered a love-hate relationship with cartoons.
Although he participated in many genres, he found his vocation in the casual c