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Yoshiyuki Tomino Press Conference

Frankly, I can't recall "skin to skin communication" being said in any Gundam series, but it probably translated to something different.

if you have a story to tell, tell it straight to your audience. Put everything you have in it. Don't lie, don't hide anything dumb, don't hesitate, just put all your passion and your sincerity into it.”

I feel a sense of danger in that, as wonderful as manga and anime are, if you only are immersed in these two genres, you are not going to be able to create the work yourself.
I see many people in my field who come into this field because they love anime and they LOVe manga, but that's really the extent of their interest, and the kinds of works they produce are very stereotypical.

I would also like to point out that Mr. Miyazaki is talking about completed works. However, Gundam is not a finished work; it is simply a concept.

I have been fortunate enough to have lived a very long life. I am now old enough to be able to say I feel free to be able to use any means of expression available to me. I want to be able to express all these ideas I feel very strongly about. I'm not ashamed or embarrassed to use any tools at my disposal. I am eager and very full of ambition wanting to use the robot anime genre, and even cute characters. I want to use all these things that are available in this field to tell the kinds of stories that I want. I am full of ambition. This is the Tomino you see before you today.

penguintruth wrote:

Frankly, I can't recall "skin to skin communication" being said in any Gundam series, but it probably translated to something different.

It's usually translated as "skin-talk." If interference from Minovsky particles is too great, one suit can make physical contact with another to establish a line of communication. Works with normal suit helmets as well.

Oh, and Fronzel, I think he means that Gundam, being a franchise built on reusable tropes isn't a "complete work", because it continues. Something like, say, Spirited Away, is complete. There doesn't need to be anything more told about those characters or that world. It's run its course, it's a complete story.

It's funny to me that neither Tomino or Miyazaki watch any anime (from what I've heard). Miyazaki from a "why watch other anime when mine is the best" perspective (that is my impression anyway), and Tomino from a "watching anime doesn't lead to making good anime" perspective. If I were an animator, I'd be watching all the anime I could in hopes of absorbing some new and better technique that I didn't know about.

In other words, there is a tremendous difference between our abilities and I cannot deny that is true.

So, if in the future I am allowed the opportunity to create another series like Gundam, I have a concept in mind that I'd like to realize.

and the answer is that I do not have the ability to read novels, or even works of science fiction.

Ah. This was mostly used in Zeta Gundam, I believe.

What's stopping you, man? You got tons of royalties off the games alone.

banana: Sorry, but Spirited Away is derivative, and Ponyo is brilliant.

Ponyo is brilliant...if you are five. I'm sorry, I had to do it.

I can't describe the depths of my loathing for Ponyo and its horrible cop-out ending. Instead of trying, I just write the whole movie off as Miyazaki's attempt at entertaining children, and I move on.