History of Mecha: "Kill 'em All" Tomino 

My favorite Tomino quote was when he admitted he designed Char's love interest in a way that wouldn't make Char seem like a simp. Tomino clearly operates at a level we are too afraid to approach.

I've always seen Tomino as the kind of guy who knows what he wants to write and does it, and would kill off characters to make that point. However, how many of the characters he kills off definitely feels like it's dependent on his mood. XD

17:23 - Except Victory Gundam. That was totally Tomino venting his frustrations.

There's an interview with Tomino here on youtube that might explain some of that murder hobo tendencies he has. His dad was a military scientist who was working on experimental weapons during WWII. At the very least, that explains the relationship between Tem and Amuro.

"He's a gouf ball" yes 🗿

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If you compare the death rate of Tomino's works, you can kind of tell the state of his mental health. while working on Gundam, he was under pressure from sponsors. Ideon, as you mention, got canned and it boasts the highest death rate of all anime, over 100% (there goes the whole universe, take that Thanos) He probably didn't have that much of fun time doing V Gundam considering "forward" in DVD insert starts off with him stating "it's an anime not worth watching." And then after a while, King Gainer and Brain Powered happened. And Turn A only those who deserved to die did and it was only handful.

Triton was the first anime I ever saw, I guess it must have been pretty cheap for the state broadcasting company to acquire in the early 90s and they just kept it in rotation for years. Point is I saw it enough times and had time to think about it and that ending just makes no damn sense, except that it serves to explore some grade A melodrama. As for the whole "destroy the old to build the new" line of thought, I find it deeply flawed and dangerous. Always be kind and build, that is my philosophy. If the evil old things won't let you build, leave them behind, old things tend to stay put in their old places. But I obviously wouldn't make an action show that follows such a philosophy. And it was refreshing to see a cartoon that didn't sugarcoat the story on account that it was for kids, didn't feel the need to hide all the violence and gore and cruelty. It is important for children to learn about how dangerous the world can be, how dangerous conflict can be.

Great work man

Watching this video made me question, and realize why i got into Gundam faster than most media I've consumed so far. Because i relate to it. Not just the show, but also to his philosophy, even without realizing it. Growing up I've always been a pretty tame person. Most adults around would always say I'm "always stuck within my own world", which is true. But by the time i went to highschool is when i am slowly trying to understand the world around me, it's the first time i was ever "forcibly" taken out of my own comfort zone, which is my mind palace, in order to focus a more on my surroundings. And by the time i was at the end of my HS era is when I've pretty much already been expised to the wonderful world of politics and, well, the internet. I still remember clearly the shock on my face when i realized the societal issues I've just been discovering has always existed even before i was born. It really felt at that time that my world has turned upside down, vigorously. I was ostracized, and it stings when you realize the world you've been living in with your childhood had been a lie this entire time. It came to the point where everything just fell in front of me and I couldn't understand what's right or wrong anymore, all i could ever think of was suicide. I came to the conclusion to "never think about anything" anymore, and in a way, that's kind of in the similar vain as "sacrificing my innocence." Currently, I'm trying to find a way to build myself up. I don't know how this journey would go, or if it even started yet. All i know is, like Amuro, I just need to do it. Because I'm the only one who can.

Excellent video

Great vid, thank you

Imagine if Tomino was kept after Victory, and instead of G we got another UC series.

With his time of retiring nearing soon, Tomino should just reboot the original UC Gundam shows into the new era. That way he can work out the quirks they had.

He is also Blow ‘em Up Tomino because everything in his anime blows up.

2:38 I JUST GOT THAT

Cool

Damn that Triton story is metal as fuck.

Judging by how Bandai is still recycling (adapting, to put it politely) old UC materials and needlessly expanding on it, no wonder Tomino was, perhasps still is, frustrated by the industry's stagnance.

The funny thing about his Kill em all reputation is thst according to some interviews he only does things like rhat because he wanted to imitate Hollywood movies... or rather his conception of them as having bleak endings for some reason. He's a weird guy.

He will always be the Father of Real Robots..

No mention of Seisenshi Dunbine (an initially slow conflict from adults, spiralling out on a global scale?) and Daitarn III (his mostly comedic work between Zanbot III - whose design is almost completely recycled - and Gundam)?

I watched xarbungle tomino's comedic genius

Tomino makes GRRM look tame by comparison when it comes to killing off main characters.

wow great video but honestly he does have something for mass murder in him i mean you cannot ignore human bomb episodes on zambot

I miss my wife

2:38 bruh

Remember the human bombs in Zambot 3, yeah that's not a great time.

10:43 music name?

anime name at 9:50?

Wow 50 Comments already, but yea I like Metallica with some mute manga for Otaku as well think Tomino is awesome. Evangelion needs a better cap though so far. Halloween sort of with evil versions of the personages. Hope much for that.

Damn, I wonder how many people will think more than one Tomino Gundam protagonist dies because of this video. No shade on the video, it's just a very funny phenomenon I've seen, the amount of people who tell me Kamille died in Zeta I tell you what lmao

I don't I've always like the "Kill 'em all" stuff from Tomino, mostly because I'm a total edgelord at heart.