Yoshiyuki Tomino
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Yoshiyuki Tomino (富野 由悠季 Tomino Yoshiyuki) (b. November 5, 1941) is a novelist and animation creator. He began his career in 1963 working for Osamu Tezuka's company, Mushi Productions. He later became one of the most important members of the animation studio Sunrise and went on to direct much of their anime through the 1970s and 1980s before slowing down in the 1990s. Tomino is perhaps best known for his transformation of the super robot genre into the real robot genre with 1979's Mobile Suit Gundam.
Tomino operated under clinical depression in his earlier work which caused a number of his anime, including 1977's Zambot 3, 1980's Space Runaway Ideon, 1983's Aura Battler Dunbine, and 1985's Zeta Gundam, to feature incredibly bloody conclusions in which almost the entire cast (including the protagonists) is killed off in the final episode or two. Tomino earned the nickname "Kill 'em All Tomino" (皆殺しの富野; "Minagoroshi no Tomino", better translated as something around the lines of "Tomino the Slaughterer") for the high body count of normally-sacrosanct main characters in his works. He later recovered from the depression and his later works, including Turn A Gundam and Brain Powered, are decidedly more positive and hopeful. Despite this, he is said to possess a large ego consistently throughout his career and many people forced to work with him have expressed various horror stories about how demanding and rude he can be.
Tomino often writes lyrics for the various songs featured in his series under the psuedonym Rin Iogi (井荻麟, Iogi Rin). Tomino (as Iogi) has collaborated with artists such as Yoko Kanno, Asei Kobayashi, MIO and Neil Sedaka.
and the Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam compilation movies are the only works by Tomino which do not have songs featuring his lyrics.
Filmography
- Wandering Sun (1971 - Director)
- Umi no Triton (1972 - Director)
- Star of the Seine (1975 - Director)
- Brave Raideen (1975 - Director (first 26 episodes))
- Choudenji Machine Voltes Five (1977 - Producer)
- Invincible Super Man Zambot 3 (1977 - Writer, Director)
- Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3 (1978 - Writer, Director)
- Mobile Suit Gundam (1979 - Writer, Director)
- Space Runaway Ideon (1980 - Writer, Director)
- Combat Mecha Xabungle (1982 - Writer, Director)
- Aura Battler Dunbine (1983 - Writer, Director)
- Heavy Metal L-Gaim (1984 - Director)
- Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985 - Writer, Director)
- Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (1986 - Writer, Director)
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (1988 - Writer, Director)
- Mobile Suit Gundam F-91 (1991 - Writer, Director)
- Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (1993 - Writer, Director)
- Garzey's Wing (1996 - Writer, Director)
- Brain Powered (1998 - Writer, Director)
- Turn A Gundam (1999 - Writer, Director)
- Overman King Gainer (2002 - Director)
- The Wings of Rean (2005 - Writer, Director)
Discography (as Rin Iogi)
"Tobe! Gundamu (Fly! Gundam)" by Koh Ikeda (Series Opening Theme)
"Eien ni Amuro (Forever Amuro)" by Koh Ikeda (Series Ending Theme)
"Char is Coming" by Koichiro Hori
"Shining Lalah" by Keiko Toda
"Ima Wa O-Yasumi" by Keiko Toda
"Kaze ni Hitori de (Alone in the Wind)" by Inoue Daisuke (Movie 2 Insert Song)
"Ai Senshi (Soldiers of Sorrow)" by Inoue Daisuke (Movie 2 Ending Theme)
"Beginning" by Inoue Daisuke (Movie 3 Insert Song)
"Meguriai (Encounters)" by Inoue Daisuke (Co-written with Maso Urino) (Movie 3 Ending Theme)
"Time for L-Gaim" by MIO (Opening Theme)
"Dunbine Tobu (Flying Dunbine)" by MIO (Opening Theme)
"Zeta - Toki o Koete (Zeta - Transcending Times)" by Maya Arukawa, composed by Neil Sedaka (First Opening Theme)
"The 1000-year-old Galaxy" by Jun Hiroe (Second Ending Theme)
"Eternal Wind" by Hiroko Moriguchi (Ending Song)
"Stand up to Victory" (First Opening Theme)
Brain Powerd, composed by Yoko Kanno
"Ai no FIELD" by Kokkia (First Ending Theme)
Turn A Gundam, composed by Yoko Kanno
"Turn A Turn" by Hideki Saijou, composed by Asei Kobayashi (First Opening Theme)
"Century Color" by RAYS-GUNS (Co-written with You-mu Hamaguchi) (Second Opening Theme)
"Ojousan Naishobanashi desu (This is a private conversation, miss)" by Hideki Saijou
"Tsuki no Tama (Spirit of the Moon)" by RRET Team
"Tsuki no Mayu (The Cocoon of the Moon)" by Aki Okui (Second Ending Theme)
"Overman King Gainer - Over!" by Yoshiki Fukuyama (Opening Theme)
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