Tomino joined Sunrise and began to storyboard, script, and direct a variety of series over the 70’s. This would become an issue at times with toy companies cutting funding or cancelling Tomino’s early series, not recognizing the genius in them. With the ability to sell toys based on the series, Bandai and other toy companies would fund the studio to make the more difficult to animate Mecha series. A lot of these studios, like Kawajiri’s MadHouse, had kept the lifestyle and action series but the studio Sunrise chose to focus directly on the robot genre. As Tomino created the ‘Real Robot’ and apocalyptic stories, Fujikawa was making ‘Super Robot’ series like Mazinger Z, Space Opera series like Queen Millennia, Galaxy Express 999, Space Battleship Yamato, and the beginning shoujo series like Cutie Honey and Aim for the Ace!īy 1971, Tezuka’s studio had gone bankrupt and the staff had spread into other places. Fujikawa was close friends and scripter for Go Nagai, another legend of the industry, and their stories would be a mirror to Tomino’s own series. Keisuke Fujikawa would constantly inspire Tomino through his scripts and screenplays. Their shared passion of sci-fi, and well researched mechanics of space, made each series impressive and inspiring. Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, of Space Battleship Yamato and Crusher Joe, would be a key figure in making the first Gundam series and worked directly with Tomino many times over the years. Tomino would work with Sasagawa, maker of Yatterman and Gatchaman, Hata, a prolific director most famous for Finding Nemo, and Ishiguro who brought us the masterpiece Legend of the Galactic Heroes and the great series of Macross. Pre-Studio Ghibli, Takahata and Miyazaki would work with Tomino on Anne, Heidi, and the show that would set the frame for future Ghibli films, Future Boy Conan. | Nozomi in the Sun | Triton of the Sea |ĭuring this time at Mushi, Tomino would work with a wide variety of the Second Generation of animators. Inspired by Animal 1, Dezaki‘s famous Ashita no Joe series would have Tomino on storyboard. | The Brave Frog | Hutch the Honey Bee | Robot Child Beaton | | Marine Boy | Anne of Green Gables | Heidi of the Alps | Racoon Rascal | | Osper | Princess Knight | Animal 1 | Marvelous Melmo | His knowledge of technical and sci-fi work would give the series a unique believability, and Tezuka would use him for a variety of Mushi Production shows in the 60’s. Tomino would act as script and storyboard on the series to bring Tezuka’s vision to light. The more widely known ‘first anime’ Astro Boy, is what really changed the game. Technically speaking, the first series in Japan to be animated in the style was a 3 minute short called Instant History, and there are other shorts predating that. Yoshiyuki Tomino attended the largest school in Japan, Nihon University, in the art department and would get a job fresh out of school working under Tezuka at Mushi Productions on the first anime. He would create entire sub-genres and his anime are iconic for Japan across the world. His script and storyboard designs set the standard for the industry that many still hold today. ‘Kill em All Tomino’ is famous for dark, mature, and death filled series. A career of over 50 years, the ‘Father of Mecha’, and creator of the ‘Real Robot’ genre, Tomino is a foundation of the anime industry. Yoshiyuki Tomino began his career on the first anime ever, and continues to make series today.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |