Yoshitomo Yonetani (米たに ヨシトモ, real name: 米谷 良知, Yonetani Yoshitomo, born May 12, 1963) is a Japanese director and animator from Tokyo. He also writes and sings anime theme songs under the name ※-mai-. He graduated from Tokyo Designer Gakuin.
Takumi, a gifted chef, just landed a new job. He works at the Astro Manor apartment building that offers breakfast, and there he encounters the beautiful landlady—Mira. It’s love at first sight, and he hopes to charm her, but the quirky tenants and bizarre phenomena don’t make it easy. He even learns by pure chance that Mira is secretly an alien! Will their love survive these unearthly oddities?
Release Date: 2024-04-05
Department: Art
Job: Storyboard Artist
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 9
The childhood adventures of Arsène Lupin III, set in the early 1960s before he achieved global infamy.
Release Date: 2022-12-16
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 20
A. S. (Ad Stella) 122 ― An era when a multitude of corporations have entered space and built a huge economic system. Suletta Mercury, a lone girl from the remote planet Mercury, transfers to the Asticassia School of Technology, run by the Beneritt Group which dominates the mobile suit industry.
Release Date: 2022-10-02
Department: Art
Job: Storyboard Artist
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 81
Ekoda-chan is from the countryside, living alone in the city. She's a temp worker and a strong, carefree soul, with no solid plan for the future, who doesn't care much about guys. She talks about how she lives her life and provides support to all those women trying to survive in the real life society.
Release Date: 2019-01-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Character: Animals (voice)
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 2
Vatican City—Holy Land of the Catholics. Amidst the land, there is an organization that conducts rigorous investigations on "claims of miracles" from all over the world to ascertain their credibility. The organization is referred to as "Seito no Za" (Assembly of Saints) and the priests that belong there are called miracle investigators. Robert Nicholas, an ancient archive and cryptanalysis expert is partnered and good friends with Hiraga Josef Kou, a genius scientist. Together, the brilliant duo investigates the "miracles" and uncovers the incidents and conspiracies hidden behind them.
Release Date: 2017-07-07
Department: Directing
Job: Series Director
Episode Count: 12
Vote Count: 3
Shigeo Kageyama, a.k.a. "Mob," is a boy who has trouble expressing himself, but who happens to be a powerful esper. Mob is determined to live a normal life and keeps his ESP suppressed, but when his emotions surge to a level of 100%, something terrible happens to him! As he's surrounded by false espers, evil spirits, and mysterious organizations, what will Mob think? What choices will he make?
Release Date: 2016-07-12
Department: Art
Job: Storyboard Artist
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1125
Saitama is a hero who only became a hero for fun. After three years of “special” training, though, he's become so strong that he's practically invincible. In fact, he's too strong — even his mightiest opponents are taken out with a single punch, and it turns out that being devastatingly powerful is actually kind of a bore. With his passion for being a hero lost along with his hair, yet still faced with new enemies every day, how much longer can he keep it going?
Release Date: 2015-10-05
Department: Visual Effects
Job: Opening/Ending Animation
Episode Count: 12
Vote Count: 3658
Yukihira Souma's dream is to become a full-time chef in his father's restaurant and surpass his father's culinary skill. But just as Yukihira graduates from middle schools his father, Yukihira Jouichirou, closes down the restaurant to travel and cook around the world. Although downtrodden, Souma's fighting spirit is rekindled by a challenge from Jouichirou which is to survive in an elite culinary school where only 10% of the students graduate. Can Souma survive?
Release Date: 2015-04-04
Department: Directing
Job: Series Director
Episode Count: 24
Vote Count: 731
The legend of the Four Dragons and the origin of the land has been passed down for generations in the land of Kouka. Currently, Hiryuu Palace has no one else next in line for the throne other than the fifteen year old princess, Yona, who had been raised with care. Finally, the night of her sixteenth birthday arrives. She expects it to be a wonderful day spent with her peace-loving father, Il, her servant and friend Hak, and her cousin Soo-won, who she had feelings for... However... That night, Yona goes to visit her father to tell him how she really feels, because he opposes to her getting married to Soo-won. However, when she gets to her room, she encounters a shocking truth. The destinies of Yona and the Four Dragons entwine in this period drama fantasy romance!
Release Date: 2014-10-07
Department: Writing
Job: Storyboard
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 260
The heroes of 'Tiger & Bunny' are back in an all-new feature-length film! Picking up after the events of the Maverick incident, Kotetsu T. Kaburagi, a.k.k Wild Tiger, and Barnaby Brooks Jr. resume their careers as heroes fighting crime in Hero TV's Second League. Their partnership comes to a sudden end when Apollon Media's new owner Mark Schneider fires Kotetsu and moves Barnaby back into the First League, pairing him up with Golden Ryan, a new hero with awesome powers and a huge ego to match. When the heroes are sent to investigate a string of strange incidents tied closely to the city's Goddess Legend, they discover three super powered NEXTs plotting to bring terror and destruction to Stern Bild. With the lives of millions hanging in the balance, Barnaby and Goden Ryan must overcome their differences to contain the approaching doom, while a jobless Kotetsu's resolve as a hero is put to the test as he struggles to help his fellow heroes from the sidelines.
Release Date: 2014-02-08
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 16
Space Dandy is a dandy in space! This dreamy adventurer with a to-die-for pompadour travels across the galaxy in search of aliens no one has ever laid eyes on. Each new species he discovers earns him a hefty reward, but this dandy has to be quick on his feet because it’s first come – first served! Accompanied by his sidekicks, a rundown robot named QT and Meow the cat-looking space alien, Dandy bravely explores unknown worlds inhabited by a variety aliens. Join the best dressed alien hunter in all of space and time as he embarks on an adventure that ends at the edge of the universe!
Release Date: 2014-01-04
Department: Art
Job: Storyboard Artist
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 107
Set on an alternative Earth, Superheroes are celebrities and a high rating TV show rates their achievements, awarding them points until an annual King of Heroes is crowned. Old-school hero Wild Tiger is assigned a new partner with very different views on the heroes role in society but soon a vigilante criminal presents them with a serious problem.
Release Date: 2012-09-22
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 18
She’s a thief. A killer. A saint and a scandal. She’s whatever you need her to be to get the job done. She takes your breath away to get what she wants. She takes everything else just because she can. It’s all in a night’s work for the woman called Fujiko Mine. She’s the slinky, sultry thread that holds Lupin III’s crew together—and this is the heist that started it all.
Release Date: 2012-04-05
Department: Writing
Job: Storyboard
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 43
Tokyo in the 1970s. Evil spirits are threatening the human world and the only ones who can stop them are a group known as the Spirit Patrol. Sent from the underworld the team consists of the hot-headed Enma, the stuck-up Yukiko, the half-water sprite Kapael and Chapeau-jii — the old man spirit in the form of a hat, who guides the group. This may not bode well... though.
Release Date: 2011-04-07
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 12
Vote Count: 9
In an alternate New York City protected by a band of superheroes called NEXT, veteran Wild Tiger is forced to team up with rookie Barnaby Brooks Jr.
Release Date: 2011-04-03
Department: Art
Job: Storyboard Artist
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 45
30th Gundam Perfect Mission is a short original video animation (OVA) officially released by Sunrise in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Gundam metaseries. It features all the titular and mascot gundams of the main series in a non-cannon conjoint mission.
Release Date: 2009-08-25
Department: Writing
Job: Storyboard
Ataru and the others will join the competition of 'The Obstacle Course Swim Meet', organized by Tomobiki High Principal and Onsen-Mark. Each of Tomobiki High students need to face different kinds of obstacles during the competition, only few of them reach the finalist and their situation is getting harder and harder than previous obstacles.
Release Date: 2008-12-23
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 6
Release Date: 2008-05-23
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 1
Our planet is under threat once again, starting with a series of extreme climate events that begin to occur all across the globe. A mysterious new foe known as the 11 Planetary Masters of Sol have appeared on Earth, launching an attack in pursuit of a mysterious substance known as the Q-Parts. As if that wasn’t enough, the universe has begun to shrink! Peace on Earth is being threatened from all angles, and it’s up to the Braves to uncover why. Could the Q-Parts be related to the Shrinking Space Phenomenon threatening our galaxy? Who are the 11 Planetary Masters of Sol, and what are they planning to do with the mysterious substance? Can the Shrinking Space Phenomenon be stopped, or is our world doomed to destruction? The stakes have never been higher for the Braves, who must unite once again and travel beyond our galaxy to solve these mysteries and defeat this dark new foe! TV re-edit of the King of Braves GaoGaiGar FINAL OVA.
Release Date: 2005-04-11
Department: Directing
Job: Series Director
Episode Count: 12
Vote Count: 1
In the year 2075, mankind has reached a point where journeying between Earth, the moon and the space stations is part of daily life. However, the progression of technology in space has also resulted in the problem of the space debris, which can cause excessive and even catastrophic damage to spacecrafts and equipment.
Release Date: 2003-10-04
Department: Art
Job: Storyboard Artist
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 61
A richly romantic action-adventure fantasy, set in a world where retro-futuristic vehicles permeate the skies. Against this lavish background are the lives of young and heroic van ship sky porters - Claus and Lavie - who are forced to take on the mission to deliver a mysterious girl, Alvis, to the battle ship Silvana. Before they know it, they become entangled in an aerial adventure between two countries gripped in an eternal war of magnificent air battleships.
Release Date: 2003-04-07
Department: Visual Effects
Job: Key Animation
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 53
Twins Ai and Yu Hayakawa decide to set forth in search of their parents and the mysterious dimension they studied.
Release Date: 2001-10-02
Department: Art
Job: Storyboard Artist
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 17
When the planet Brigadoon appears in the sky, Marin is attacked by weird mecha called Monomakia. In an old shrine, she finds an ampoule that contains Melan, an angular blue mecha who swears to defend her.
Release Date: 2000-07-21
Department: Writing
Job: Original Story
Episode Count: 26
Vote Count: 3
A new threat makes its appearance on Earth. GGG - with Guy Shishio and the newly-constructed GaoFighGar - team up with their French counterpart Chasseur to battle the Eleven Kings of Sol.
Release Date: 2000-01-21
Department: Directing
Job: Series Director
Episode Count: 10
Vote Count: 3
A deadly virus known as "Algernon" has attacked humanity. At the forefront of the battle is the mysterious Akamatsu Industries, this undercover organization uses enhanced weapons known as NeuroNoids to battle Algernon. Also helping with their secret efforts is the mysterious mutant who is known as "Betterman."
Release Date: 1999-04-02
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 26
Vote Count: 3
A Doraemons film. It premiered on a bill with Doraemon: Nobita Drifts in the Universe and Doraemon: Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding .
Release Date: 1999-03-06
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 6
A Doraemon film featuring the Doraemons.
Release Date: 1998-03-07
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 4
In the year 2005, a race of alien monsters emerge from underground and launch a series of attacks on the city of Tokyo. The only defense against these creatures is the awesome giant robot GaoGaiGar and its pilot, Guy Shishio.
Release Date: 1997-02-01
Department: Directing
Job: Series Director
Episode Count: 61
Vote Count: 8
Acting as a prequel, this short subject shows the life of Doraemon before traveling to the 20th century: how he was made, how he was partially broken, how he lost his ears, how he met the Nobi family and decides to return to the past to help Nobita.
Release Date: 1995-03-04
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 34
The first specially edited memorial episode featuring Jean’s narration. This is a breath-taking sea adventure action animation. The story centers on a series of critical battles by the indestructible submarine, Nautilus and the conflict between Captain Nemo and the Gargoyle. It’s a shorter, more streamlined version of Nadia called "The Nautilus Story", which all but eliminates the filler arc and concentrates on the struggle between Nemo and Gargoyle. Some scenes in the more pivotal episodes are cut as well. The compilation series was made by Hideaki Anno, who was said to have been dissatisfied with the final result of the TV show. The Nautilus Story was only released in Japan on VHS and laserdisc.
Release Date: 1991-06-21
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Release Date: 1991-03-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
In mankind's grasp for the future, a sinister foe known only as Gargoyle begins his plans to take over the world. Nadia, with the help of a young inventor, Jean Ratlique, and Captain Nemo of the submarine Nautilus, must fight to save the world from Gargoyle and Neo-Atlantis.
Release Date: 1990-04-13
Department: Writing
Job: Storyboard
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 77
Based on the horror manga created by duo Fujiko Fujio, The Laughing Salesman tells the story of a salesman named Moguro Fukuzo, whose job is to help people fill gaps in their soul. However, in reality, he ruins people's lives if his clients backstab him or never ask him for help.
Release Date: 1989-10-17
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 44
Vote Count: 4
Five young men with mystical armor fight to save the mortal from the evil Talpa.
Release Date: 1988-04-30
Department: Writing
Job: Storyboard
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 22