Given the complexity of the man we all know as Tomino, I’ve decided to do a weekly deep-dive into some older interviews he’s had with a wide variety of individuals over the years (serialized in Gundam Ace and then compiled into stand-alone books). Although some of them, admittedly, haven’t aged all that well (they were […]
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