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Animage 01/1988 – TALKING UP: YOSHIYUKI TOMINO VS YOSHIKI TANAKA
The following is an interview Animage magazine held with Yoshiyuki Tomino and Yoshiki Tanaka to promote the upcoming movies Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack and Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest Is the Sea of Stars. The label “AM” denotes that one of the Animage staff is speaking. [Originally translated and posted August 28,…
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Animage 12/1979 – Yoshiyuki Tomino Answers 67 Questions
As part of a larger feature on the currently airing Mobile Suit Gundam in the December 1979 issue of Animage, Director Yoshiyuki Tomino answers 67 questions sent in by fans. Questions are numbered as they appear in the article and Director Tomino’s answers follow, with section titles in between. I’ve added a few of my…
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Newtype 09/1985 – Saeko Shimazu interviews Director Yoshiyuki Tomino
In this short article from the September 1985 issue of Newtype magazine, Saeko Shimazu (voice of Four Murasame) asks Director Yoshiyuki Tomino a few questions about the character she plays and her role in the series as a whole. [Originally translated and posted December 19, 2024]
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Char’s Counterattack Cinema Book – Interview with Director Yoshiyuki Tomino
Released by MOVIC in 1988 alongside the film, the Char’s Counterattack Cinema Book is a companion resource to the film, with multiple pages of color screenshots, an interview with Director Tomino, and plenty of concept art. In this post however, we’ll only be covering the interview. This interview also contains many footnotes from the book…
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Monthly OUT, 10/1979 – Part 2 (Interview with Director Tomino)
Picking up where we left off in this magazine, up next is a section titled Fly! Gundam featuring an interview with Director Yoshiyuki Tomino. [Originally translated and posted on November, 9 2023]
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Road to Char’s Counterattack – 10/1987 (Animage)
Char’s Counterattack is once again the cover story in the October 1987 issue of Animage. This is highlighted by an interview with Director Tomino in which he discusses his decision to set the movie when Amuro and Char are in their thirties and how it fits in the Gundam world’s chronology. Plus some notes about…
