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 is best known for his work on Giant Robot anime of the 1970s, and transformed the genre into the mecha genre with 1979's Mobile Suit Gundam.
With 1980's Space Runaway Ideon, 1983's Aura Battler Dunbine and 1985's Zeta Gundam, Tomino earned the nickname "Kill-All Tomino" for the high body count of normally-sacrosanct main characters in his works. He assisted with the last several episodes of Gundam Seed, when the poor animation time management of the director and writing staff had left little time to tell the remainder of the story.
Tomino Filmography:
Wandering Sun (1971 - Director)
Star of the Seine (1975 - Director)
Zambot 3
Reideen the Brave
Choudenji Machine Voltes Five (1977 - Producer)
Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3 (1978 - Writer, Director)
Tomino later lamented that had he known that anime ending would be different and that another series would be made, he would not have killed off Amuro in the novels.
Tomino later publicly confirmed at Anime Expo New York 2002 that the name was originally based on the French name Charles Aznavour, a 1970s lounge singer.
Tomino removed several aspects of the show which he felt were still too super robot-esque for the real robot series he intended Gundam to be, such as the Gundam Hammer weapon.
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 (as Iogi) has collaborated with artists such as Yoko Kanno, Asei Kobayashi, MIO and Neil Sedaka.
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