

Tomino made his directorial debut with 1973's Triton of the Sea ( 海のトリトン, Umi no Toriton ?). His recent work includes Brain Powerd (1998), Turn A Gundam (1999), Overman King Gainer (2002) and most recently, The Wings of Rean, released in December 2005 and running till August 2006.
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Tomino is noted for directing several well-known anime series throughout his career, such as his most notable work, the Mobile Suit Gundam series, beginning in 1979, and which was later followed onto numerous sequels, spinoffs and merchandising franchises, Aura Battler Dunbine, Brave Raideen (in which he directed the first 26 episodes), and numerous others. Tomino (as Iogi) has collaborated with artists such as Yoko Kanno, Asei Kobayashi, MIO and Neil Sedaka.

Tomino often writes lyrics for the various songs featured in his series under the pseudonym Rin Iogi ( 井荻 麟, Iogi Rin ?). Two anime series directed by Tomino ( Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979-80 and Space Runaway Ideon in 1980) won the Animage Anime Grand Prix award. He has also won numerous awards, including the "Best Director" award at the recent 2006 Tokyo International Anime Fair (for the 2005 film Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: Heirs To The Stars).

Tomino is perhaps best known for his transformation of the " Super Robot" mecha anime genre into the " Real Robot" genre with 1979's Mobile Suit Gundam, the first in the Gundam metaseries. He later became one of the most important members of the anime studio Sunrise, going on to direct numerous anime through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Tomino, began his career in 1963 with Osamu Tezuka's company, Mushi Productions, scripting the storyboards and screenplay of the first Japanese television anime series, Tetsuwan Atomu (also known as Astro Boy). Yoshiyuki Tomino ( 富野 喜幸, Tomino Yoshiyuki ?)
