TV animation

• Shin Don Chuck Monogatari (1976–1978, episode director)
• Kagaku Bōkentai Dancer 5 (1979–1980, episode director)
• Mobile Suit Gundam
  Mobile Suit Gundam
  is a televised anime series, created by Sunrise. Created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, it premiered in Japan on Nagoya Broadcasting Network on April 7, 1979, and lasted until January 26, 1980, spanning 43 episodes...
  
  (1979–1980, episode director)
• The Ultraman
  The Ultraman
  is a Japanese animated television series co-produced by Tsuburaya Production and Tokyo Broadcasting System. The series aired on TBS Television affiliates on the Wednesday 7:00 PM time slot from April 4, 1979 to March 26, 1980, lasting a total of 50 episodes. It was the eighth installment in the...
  
  (1979–1980, episode director, storyboards)
• Zenderman
  Zenderman
  is a Japanese anime television series which first aired from February 3, 1979 to January 26, 1980 on every Saturday from 6:30 pm to 7:00 pm with a total of 52 episodes. It is the third show in the sequence of "Time Bokan Series" produced by Tatsunoko Productions...
  
  (1979–1980, episode director)
• Space Runaway Ideon
  Space Runaway Ideon
  is a 1980 anime television series produced by Sunrise.-Production:Ideon was created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, and was the series he produced immediately following his most famous work, Mobile Suit Gundam....
  
  (1980–1981, episode director)
• Taiyō no Shisha Tetsujin 28-gō (1980–1981, episode director)
• Superbook
  Superbook
  Superbook, also known as , is an anime television series produced by Tatsunoko Productions in Japan in conjunction with the Christian Broadcasting Network in the United States....
  
  (1981–1982, episode director)
• Fang of the Sun Dougram
  Fang of the Sun Dougram
  is a 75-episode anime television series, created by Ryosuke Takahashi and Sunrise, and aired in Japan from October 23, 1981 to March 25, 1983 on TV Tokyo...
  
  (1981–1983, episode director)
• Urusei Yatsura
  Urusei Yatsura
  is a comedic manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi that premiered in Weekly Shōnen Sunday in 1978 and ran until its conclusion in 1987. Its 374 individual chapters were collected and published in 34 tankōbon volumes. The series tells the story of Ataru Moroboshi, and the alien...
  
  (1981–1986, episode director, storyboards)
• Asari-chan (1982–1983, episode director)
• Combat Mecha Xabungle
  Combat Mecha Xabungle
  , infrequently called Blue Gale Xabungle, is a mecha anime television series by Sunrise, and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino. It was broadcast on the Nagoya TV and TV Asahi networks at 5:30 PM each Saturday from February 6, 1982 through January 29, 1983. Promotional toys were produced by Clover...
  
  (1982–1983, episode director, storyboards)
• Aura Battler Dunbine
  Aura Battler Dunbine
  is an anime television series created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and produced by Sunrise Studios.Dunbine is set in Byston Well, a parallel world that resembles the countryside of medieval Europe with kingdoms ruled by monarchs in castles, armies of unicorn-riding cavalry armed with swords and crossbows,...
  
  (1983–1984, episode director, storyboards)
• Ginga Hyōryū Vifam
  Ginga Hyoryu Vifam
  is an anime television series created by Sunrise in 1983.-Production:Galactic Drifter Vifam premiered in Japan on Japan News Network's TV stations between October 21, 1983 and September 8, 1984. The series was conceived by Yoshiyuki Tomino and directed by Takeyuki Kanda...
  
  (1983–1984, episode director)
• Plawres Sanshiro
  Plawres Sanshiro
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Jirou Ushi. It was serialized in the Akita Shoten magazine Shukan Shōnen Champion from August 6, 1982 to May 3, 1985. An anime adaptation aired in 1983 in Japan, Hong Kong, the Middle East and Greece and Algeria...
  
  (1982–1984, episode director)
• Chōriki Robo Galatt (1984–1985, episode director, storyboards)
• Heavy Metal L-Gaim
  Heavy Metal L-Gaim
  is an 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 in the Pentagona System, a solar system made up of five planets...
  
  (1984–1985, episode director, storyboards)
• Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
  Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
  is a television anime, part of the Gundam series and a sequel to the original Mobile Suit Gundam. The show was created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, with character designs by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, while the series' mechanical designs is split amongst Kunio Okawara, Mamoru Nagano, and Kazumi Fujita...
  
  (1985–1986, episode director, storyboards)
• Metal Armor Dragonar
  Metal Armor Dragonar
  is a 48-episode mecha anime series, created by Sunrise and aired from 1987 to 1988. Devised shortly after the release of Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, Dragonar was intended to be both a "starter" series to get new fans into mecha anime, and a potential successor to the Gundam franchise. In fact, it's...
  
  (1987–1988, episode director)
• Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
  Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ
  is a TV series aired on Japanese TV from 1986–1987, was the third Gundam series, and a direct follow up to Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. Director Yoshiyuki Tomino returned to lead the series, and he assembled a new team consisting of character designer Hiroyuki Kitazume, who had been one of Zeta...
  
  (1986–1987, episode director, storyboards)
• Maison Ikkoku
  Maison Ikkoku
  is a Japanese seinen manga written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi and serialized in the manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 1980 through 1987. Maison Ikkoku is a bitter-sweet comedic romance involving a group of madcap people who live in a boarding house in 1980s Tokyo...
  
  (1986–1988, episode director)
• Yoroiden Samurai Troopers
  Ronin Warriors
  Ronin Warriors, known in Japan as , is a Japanese anime series and manga adaptation created by Hajime Yatate. The anime was produced and animated by Sunrise, and aired across Japan on Nagoya Television from April 30, 1988 to March 4, 1989 and has a total of 39 episodes.Ronin Warriors was produced...
  
  (1988–1989, episode director, storyboards)
• Jushin Liger
  Jushin Liger (anime)
  is an anime superhero TV series created by Go Nagai. Produced by Sunrise Inc. with cooperation of Dynamic Planning , the series was originally broadcast on Nagoya Broadcasting Network /TV Asahi from to with a total of 43 episodes....
  
  (1989–1990, episode director)
• The Brave Fighter of Legend Da-Garn
  The Brave Fighter of Legend Da-Garn
  is a Japanese animated television series that aired in 1992, created by Sunrise under the direction of Katsuyoshi Yatabe, and is the third of the long running "Brave" series funded by Takara and produced by Sunrise.-Story:...
  
  (1992–1993, episode director, storyboards)
• The Brave Express Might Gaine
  The Brave Express Might Gaine
  is an anime television series series begun in 1993, created by Sunrise' under the direction of Shinji Takamatsu, and was the fourth in the Yūsha metaseries funded by Takara and produced by Sunrise.-Story:...
  
  (1993–1994, episode director)
• Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
  Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
  , is a 1993 Japanese science fiction anime television series. It consists of 51 episodes, and was directed by Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino. The series was first broadcast on TV Asahi and later by the anime satellite television network, Animax, across Japan and later its respective networks...
  
  (1993–1994, episode director)
• Yaiba
  Yaiba
  Yaiba, also known as , is a shōnen manga series by Gosho Aoyama. It ran in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from issue 39 of 1988 to issue 50 of 1993, collected in 24 tankōbon volumes. It also came in 12 double volumes...
  
  (1993–1994, episode director)
• Saber Marionette J
  Saber Marionette J
  is a Japanese anime produced by Hal Film Maker, aired on TV Tokyo from October 1, 1996 to March 25, 1997. It is the second installation of the Saber Marionette line of series, preceding Saber Marionette J Again and succeeding Saber Marionette R...
  
  (1996–1997, episode director)
• Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick
  Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick
  is an animated Japanese television series, based on Herman Melville's original novel Moby-Dick. However, this adaptation used futuristic outer space as the setting, with "whales" being large abandoned spaceships instead. It aired from 1997 to 1999, albeit with a suspension of new episodes from...
  
  (1997–1999, episode director)
• Beast Wars II
  Beast Wars II
  refers to the 1998 Japanese Transformers television animated series, and the movie and toyline that resulted from it. While its position in the Transformers continuity has previously been unknown, the IDW Publishing comic book mini-series Beast Wars: The Gathering and comments from Transformers...
  
  (1998–1999, series director, storyboards)
• Beast Wars Neo
  Beast Wars Neo
  Beast Wars Neo is a 1998 Japanese Transformers television animated series and toy line, and a sequel to Beast Wars II.-Plot:The series focuses on a battle between Maximal and Predacon factions for possession of an energy source called Angolmois. The lone "one-man army" Big Convoy is assigned the...
  
  (1999, series director, episode director, storyboards)
• Transformers: Robots in Disguise
  Transformers: Robots in Disguise
  Transformers: Robots in Disguise, known in Japan as , is a Japanese anime television series and serves as a self-contained universe separate from any of the other existing Transformers universes...
  
  (2000, series director, episode director, storyboards)
• Chobits
  Chobits
  is a Japanese manga created by the Japanese manga collective Clamp. It was published by Kodansha in Young Magazine from February 2001 to November 2002 and collected in eight bound volumes....
  
  (2002, episode director)
• Pita-Ten (2002, episode director)
• GetBackers
  GetBackers
  is a manga series written by Tadashi Agi and illustrated by Rando Ayamine. The series was serialized and is published by Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1999 until 2007, totaling 39 volumes. The plot follows the "GetBackers", a group that retrieves anything that was lost...
  
  (2002–2003, episode director)
• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
  Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
  is an anime series developed by Sunrise and directed by Mitsuo Fukuda. As with other series from the Gundam franchise, Gundam SEED takes place in a parallel timeline, in this case the Cosmic Era, the first to do so...
  
  (2002–2003, episode director)
• Princess Tutu
  Princess Tutu
  is a magical girl anime series created by Ikuko Itoh in 2002 for animation studio Hal Film Maker. It was adapted as a 2-volume manga illustrated by Mizuo Shinonome...
  
  (2002–2003, episode director)
• Bakuten Shoot: Beyblade G Revolution
  Beyblade
  is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takao Aoki. Originally serialized in CoroCoro Comic from 2000 to 2002, the individual chapters were collected and published in 14 tankōbon by Shogakukan...
  
  (2003, episode director)
• Scrapped Princess
  Scrapped Princess
  is a Japanese light novel series by Ichiro Sakaki and illustrated by Nakayohi Mogudan, a popular adult dōjin artist. In 2003, it was adapted into an anime series produced by Bones...
  
  (2003, episode director)
• W Wish
  W Wish
  is a Japanese anime which aired as half of the "Princess Hour" with Final Approach as its second feature. It aired between October 2004 and January 2005. Like Final Approach, the show was based on a video game by the same name published by Trinet Entertainment.-Summary:Junna Tōno has a twin sister...
  
  (2004–2005, series director, episode director, storyboards)
• Sgt. Frog
  Sgt. Frog
  Sgt. Frog, known in Japan as , is a manga series by Mine Yoshizaki. It was later serialized into a TV anime series directed by Junichi Sato. Both the anime and manga are comedies that follow the attempts of a platoon of frog-like alien invaders to conquer Earth...
  
  (since 2004, episode director)
• Strawberry 100% (2005, series director, episode director, storyboards)
• The Law of Ueki
  The Law of Ueki
  is a Japanese manga series by Tsubasa Fukuchi. It was first serialised in the manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday in 2002 and ended in 2005. Sixteen tankōbon volumes was compiled and published by Shogakukan. An anime adaptation was first broadcast on TV Tokyo on April 4, 2005, ended with 51...
  
  (2005–2006, episode director)
• Crash B-Daman
  Crash B-Daman
  is the third comic adaptation of the B-Daman toy, first serialized in December 2005 issue of Coro Coro Comic. The television series started on January 9, 2006, replacing Battle B-Daman in TV Tokyo...
  
  (2006, episode director)
• Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
  Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
  , known simply as When They Cry for the North American release of the anime adaptation, is a Japanese murder mystery dōjin soft sound novel series produced by 07th Expansion. The games are built on the NScripter game engine and are playable on Microsoft Windows PCs...
  
  (2006, episode director)
• Strain: Strategic Armored Infantry (2006–2007, episode director)
• Hero Tales (2007–2008, series director, episode director, storyboards)
• Porphy no Nagai Tabi (2008, episode director)
• Zettai Karen Children
  Zettai Karen Children
  is a Japanese shōnen manga by Takashi Shiina. The manga started being serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine Shōnen Sunday in 2005. An anime series began on April 6, 2008 which ran for fifty-one episodes. Shiina developed the series out of a short story he had written in a special issues of...
  
  (2008–2009, episode director)
• Cross Game
  Cross Game
  is a romantic comedy baseball manga series by Mitsuru Adachi that was serialized by Shogakukan in Weekly Shōnen Sunday between 11 May 2005 and 17 February 2010 . It is collected in 17 tankōbon volumes, with the final volume published in April 2010, shortly after the end of the anime series...
  
  (since 2009, series director, episode director, storyboards)

OVAs

• Heavy Metal L-Gaim
  Heavy Metal L-Gaim
  is an 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 in the Pentagona System, a solar system made up of five planets...
  
  (1986–1987, episode director, storyboards)
• Dirty Pair
  Dirty Pair
  is a series of sci-fi comedy light novels written by Haruka Takachiho and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko that was later adapted into anime and manga versions....
  
  (1987–1988, episode director)
• Twin (1989, director)
• Shin Captain Tsubasa
  Captain Tsubasa
  , also known as Flash Kicker, is a popular long running Japanese manga, animation, and video game series, originally created by Yōichi Takahashi in 1981...
  
  (1989–1990, series director)
• Osu!! Karate Bu
  Osu!! Karate Bu
  is a manga series by Koji Takahashi. The long running manga was published in Weekly Young Jump from 1985–1996 and centers on the misadventures of the various thugs and delinquent students that make up Kangokou High School's infamous Karate Club.-Background:...
  
  (1990–1992, series director)
• Kumo in Noru (1991, director)
• Maji! Risshi-hen (1991, director)
• U-Jin Brand (1991, director)
• Utchare Gosho Kawara (1991, director)
• Yokohama Meibutsu: Otoko Katayama-gumi (1991, supervising director)
• Don: Gokudō Suikoden (1992, director)
• Princess Army: Wedding Combat (1992, director)
• Gorillaman (1992–1993, director)
• My My Mai (1993–1994, director)
• Bad Boys (1993–1998, episode director)
• Fencer of Minerva
  Fencer of Minerva
  is a five episode soft-core hentai anime series released domestically by Central Park Media in two DVD volumes.-Summary:Set in a world reminiscent of John Norman's Gor novels, the story has political intrigue, adventure, and romance...
  
  (1994, episode director)
• Homeroom Affairs (1994, director)
• Shonan Junai Gumi! 5: Last Signal
  Shonan Junai Gumi
  is a manga by Tohru Fujisawa which was published from March 1990 to December 1996, and initially released in 31 volumes. It has subsequently been released in a deluxe edition of 15 volumes, from May to December 2000, and the pocket-size print run, which began in May 2005, is currently at the 10th...
  
  (1997, director)
• Moeyo Ken (2003–2004, episode director, storyboards)
• Ghost Talker's Daydream (2004, series director, episode director, storyboards)

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