Yoshiyuki Tomino

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富野喜幸, とみの喜幸, Yoshiyuki Yokitani (斧谷喜幸), Minoru Yokitani (斧谷稔), Minami Asa (南阿佐, 阿佐みなみ), Akio Igusa (井草明夫), Rin Iogi (井荻麟), Shuusuke Nitta (新田修介)

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age: 84
gender: Male
language: Japanese
born: 5 nov 1941
from: Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

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Yoshiyuki Tomino is an anime creator best known for creating the Gundam anime franchise.

Began his career in 1963 with Osamu Tezuka's company, Mushi Production, scripting and directing episodes of the first Japanese anime television series, anilist.co/anime/2747. He later became one of the most important members of the anime studio Sunrise, going on to direct numerous anime through the '70s, '80s and '90s. He is perhaps best known for his transformation of the "Super Robot" mecha anime genre into the "Real Robot" genre with 1979's anilist.co/anime/80, the first in the Gundam franchise.

Known for using numerous pseudonyms.

(Source: Wikipedia)