Yoshiyuki Tomino, the 73-year-old creator of the Mobile Suit Gundam robot anime franchise, engaged in a rapid-fire exchange of ideas that hopscotched from an analysis of Tomino’s enduringly popular series to topics ranging from future energy sources to the human-robot relationship.
Honoured this year with a major retrospective at the Tokyo International Film Festival, he was speaking on Friday at the Shinjuku Piccadilly theatre at a talk event that pitched him opposite 27-year-old media artist and University of Tsukuba assistant professor Yoichi Ochiai.