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animator and character designer, often noted for his work in the 1980s with noted

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studio

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Works

Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato , also called ''Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato'' or ''Arrivederci Yamato'', is the second film based on the classic manga and anime series ''Space Battleship Yamato'' (known as ''Star Blazers'' in the United States) and the sequel to ''Space ...

(1978) - Chief Animation Director *

Space Runaway Ideon is a 1980 anime television series produced by Sunrise, created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, produced immediately following his most famous work, ''Mobile Suit Gundam''. It first premiered on TV Tokyo from 1980 to 1981, followed by two ...

(1980) - Character Designer, Animation Director *

Combat Mecha Xabungle is a Japanese mecha anime television series created by Sunrise and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino. It was broadcast on the Nagoya TV and TV Asahi networks weekly from February 6, 1982, to January 29, 1983. Promotional toys were produced by Cl ...

(1982) - Character Designer *

Aura Battler Dunbine is an anime television series created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and produced by Sotsu and Sunrise. ''Dunbine'' is set in Byston Well, a parallel world that resembles the countryside of medieval Europe with kingdoms ruled by monarchs in castles, ...

(1983) - Original creator, Character Design, Animation Director (ep. 1), Production Supervision * Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross (1984) - Character Designer *

Heavy Metal L-Gaim is a mecha anime television series, begun in 1984, which was directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino. Its characters and mecha were designed by Mamoru Nagano, who would later go on to create ''The Five Star Stories''. ''Heavy Metal L-Gaim'' takes place ...

(1984) - Animation Director * Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight (1985) - Character Design * Greed (1985) - Original Creator, Director, Character Design, Screenplay, Storyboard, Animation Director * Cool Cool Bye (1986) - Director, Script, Original story, Character Design, Animation Director *

Legend of the Galactic Heroes , sometimes abbreviated as ''LOTGH'', ''LOGH'' or in Japanese (and also depicted as ''Heldensagen vom Kosmosinsel'' in the anime intro), is a series of science fiction novels written by Yoshiki Tanaka. In humanity's distant fu ...

(1988-1997) - Storyboard (eps 7, 20), Animation Director (ep 7), Guest Character Design (eps 6–7) *

Tekkaman Blade is a 1992 Japanese anime television series produced by Tatsunoko Production and Sotsu Agency. The series was directed by Hiroshi Negishi and written by Mayori Sekijima and Satoru Akahori. The story follows an organization called the Spa ...

(1992) - Character Design (as TOIIIO), Animation Coordination * Casshan: Robot Hunter (1993) - Character Designer * Strahl (1993) - Character Design *

4th Super Robot Wars is a tactical RPG for the Super Famicom developed by both Banpresto and Winky Soft and published by Banpresto. It's the 5th entry in the Super Robot Wars series and the last entry in the Classic Timeline. It was first released on March 17, 1995, a ...

(1995) - Main Character Designer * Space Battleship Yamato: Resurrection (2009) - Character Design, Animation Director * Folktales from Japan (2012-2013) - Storyboard (eps 33a, 60a, 68c), Episode Director (eps 33a, 60a, 68c), Character Design (eps 33a, 60a, 68c), Art (eps 33a, 60a), Animation Director (eps 33a, 60a, 68c), Background Art (eps 33a, 60a), Color setting (ep 60a), Finish Animation (ep 60a), In-Between Animation (eps 60a, 68c), Key Animation (eps 33a, 60a, 68c) *

Omae wa Mada Gunma o Shiranai is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroto Ida. It began serialization online via Shinchosha's Kurage Bunch website in October 2013 and has since been collected into eight ''tankōbon'' volumes. A 4-episode live-action tel ...

(2018) - Character Design, Chief Animation Director, Key Animation (eps. 1–2)

References

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