Kenji Yoshida, born January 1, 1935 is a Japanese anime producer and illustrator. He is the co-founder of the Tatsunoko Production animation studio and former president (1977–1988). Yoshida is the younger brother of Tatsuo Yoshida and the older brother of Ippei Kuri.
Bolt Crank, the World's Greatest Mercenary, who has the ability to eat any object, mostly metal and weapons. When the time comes, he can reproduce those weapons and items in his right hand.
Release Date: 1998-10-07
Department: Visual Effects
Job: Key Animation
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
Generator Gawl is a 1998 12-part anime series. The story is set in 2007, when Professor Takuma Nekasa uncovers a gene code that will unlock the human body's greatest mystery and expose mankind to its greatest threat. As a result, Gawl, Koji, and Ryo—three young scientists from a future period—have traveled back in time to undo this mistake. Though the trio intended to arrive one year before the calamity, they are instead transported three months prior to the event. In their effort to save the world, they are opposed by the mysterious and cunning Ryuko Saito, a scientist who prefers the future as it is. Saito is assisted by Generators, unearthly assassins posing as humans. As Ryo and Koji try to complete their mission, Gawl himself must "generate"—becoming like his enemies to fight on their terms.
Release Date: 1998-10-06
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 12
Vote Count: 3
In the chaos of the Jinshin-no-Ran civil war of 762, a child with a small horn in his forehead was born. The child's mother condemned him as an oni and cast him away. An elderly shūgenja woman claimed the child and named him Utsunomiko, or 'Divine Child of the Heavens', telling Miko that his horn smybolizes the union of heaven and earth. Miko matured in the wilderness learning the ways of Shugendō, and soon started venturing into villages out of curiosity. He found that the common people of the villages live in poverty and suffering, and began using his spiritual powers to help them. But his anger at the self-serving rulers and their petty power-struggles grew until he came into open conflict with the Imperial Court, setting Miko down a long path as a champion of the oppressed.
Release Date: 1989-03-11
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
Lum & her girlfriends are invited to Neptune by Oyuki. There she shows them her new business venture at a ranch of flying sherbets, birds capable of producing sherbet cones from their beaks. Ran convinces Oyuki to let her borrow one, her goal is to make some quick cash selling sherbets on Earth. Unfortunately, the combination of being overworked and a hot summer day has made the sherbet extremely cranky, even from its refrigerated cage. It breaks from its cage and escapes, but not before attacking Ran and Lum, and trashing Benten's brand-new bike by shooting sherbet cones at it. Now it's up to Ran to retrieve the sherbet before Benten blasts it out of the sky, and more importantly, before Oyuki finds out.
Release Date: 1988-12-02
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 5
Schoolgirl Hikari has two loves: rhythmic gymnastics and Ohishi, a schoolmate who is one of the best gymnasts in his league. Natsukawa, Hikari's childhood friend, plays in a band called Mr.D. Over the years, he has come to love Hikari very deeply. Will Hikari gain Ohishi's love? Or will Natsukawa win her over?
Release Date: 1986-05-03
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Episode Count: 19
Vote Count: 4
Robotech is an 85-episode adaptation of three different anime television series made between 1982-1984 in Japan; the adaptation was aired in 1985. Within the combined and edited story, Robotechnology refers to the scientific advances discovered in an alien starship that crashed on a South Pacific island. With this technology, Earth developed giant robotic machines or mecha to fight three successive extraterrestrial invasions.
Release Date: 1985-03-04
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 85
Vote Count: 320
This is the original "movie" version of the first three episodes of Macross before Harmony Gold edited the series into Robotech.
Release Date: 1984-01-01
Department: Production
Job: Producer
In the year 2050, an alien race, invade and successfully conquer the Earth. Years later the inhabitants of Mars Colony send out a desperate Liberation Force to try and reclaim their lost home world. Stig Bernard, finds himself on Earth, gathering a handful of resistance fighters and attempting to beat them.
Release Date: 1983-10-02
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 25
Vote Count: 10
On a future Earth ruled by Emperor Darius, the crew members of the Nautilus Submarine fight bravely to win freedom from oppression.
Release Date: 1981-03-01
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 2
An orphan girl receives a scholarship for a prestigious school from an anonymous benefactor who she refers to as Daddy Long Legs.
Release Date: 1979-10-10
Department: Art
Job: Production Design
Vote Count: 3
Release Date: 1975-07-02
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 1
Dr. Azuma creates robots to benefit mankind, but they unexpectedly rebel and begin to destroy everything in their paths. To deal with the catastrophe, Dr. Azuma's son volunteers to become a human robot, even though he knows he will never be able to return to human form again. He confronts this grave situation to ensure a bright future for all humans.
Release Date: 1973-10-02
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 7
Mokku of the Oak Tree, also known as Mokku Woody the Oak Tree, or Saban's Adventures of Pinocchio in the United States, is a 52 episode anime series by Tatsunoko Productions first aired on Fuji Television in 1972. The story is based on the novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Italian author Carlo Collodi. Unlike the more cheerful lighter tones of the Disney Version and Nippon Animation's version Piccolino no Bōken, this series has a distinctly sadistic darker theme and portrays the main character, Pinocchio, as suffering from constant physical and psychological abuse and freak accidents.
Release Date: 1972-01-04
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 52
Vote Count: 8
Release Date: 1971-04-03
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 25
Vote Count: 1