Recently, animation director Yuki Tomino, who is famous for the "Mobile Suit Gundam" series, gave his thoughts on the Gundam series and his understanding of life. The details are as follows:

When I first started making zuò gundam, I was working as a freelancer on some animation zuò. Originally, I wanted to make a movie for adults, but I was confused about my way of life and was troubled. In the world of TV animation, it is difficult to make use of one's own creative individuality, and the copyright is not in hand, so the income is not optimistic.

In other words, Gundam was set to be a "giant machine" from the beginning. But to be honest, I hate this kind of machine-themed work. As an investor, the toy dealer and the advertising agency kept sending me orders, and the whole person was tied to it. So in the shackles of the machine qì people, can I still make a good movie? For me, cinema is storytelling, but I don't know if I can use the machine to achieve the purpose of storytelling.

When the first generation of Gundam was first broadcast, the average rating was around 10%, which cannot be said to be very high. However, after that, the evaluation of the work gradually increased among magazines and anime fans, and by the time it was rebroadcast in 1981, the ratings had exceeded 20%. The theatrical version, which was released in the same year, was also very popular. After that, TV anime became a series, and related merchandise and popular phrases were born, and the whole society set off a Gundam craze, which was called a phenomenon. On the other hand, I myself lost my position for the future.

(During the period when Mobile Suit V Gundam and other series were made in '93~'94) I didn't know how or how I was going to live. Middle age is spent in this state of melancholy.

What exactly is culture? What should I do myself? After thinking about these questions, I started talking to the monthly magazine "Gundam ACE" in my 60s. The interviews ranged from pilots to historians, nursing home doctors, abbots, athletes, and more. Every time I meet with someone, I do some research. This went on for 10 years, and as the conversation activities accumulated, I felt that I had finally grasped the meaning of "culture".

Ladies and gentlemen, it is precisely because of the Zuò Gundam that we have the opportunity to meet today. In recent years, the "Gundam Generation", which has grown up watching Gundam, have begun to be active in various fields. When I talked to them, I felt that they had thoroughly understood the meaning of the work. And my idea of "wanting to make a zuò movie" has already been conveyed to you.

I'm afraid that "Mobile Suit Gundam" is able to become an anime with so many fans because of the shackles of "machine qì human works", right?