Editing Yoshiyuki Tomino (section)

== Early life and family ==
Tomino was born on November 5, 1941, in [[Odawara]], [[Kanagawa Prefecture]], to an old family of regional landowners in Ōjima (in present-day [[Kōtō]], Tokyo).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=人物と其勢力 – 国立国会図書館デジタルコレクション |url=https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/946316/57 |accessdate=2021-07-24 |website=[[National Diet Library]] |language=ja |archive-date=2021-09-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921153902/https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/946316/57 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=「アムロ父子の確執は創作ではなかった」 40周年『ガンダム』富野由悠季監督が語る戦争のリアル |url=https://www.asahi.com/and/article/20191229/8595254/ |accessdate=2021-07-24 |website=[[Asahi Shimbun]] |language=ja |archive-date=2024-01-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240120075759/https://www.asahi.com/and/article/20191229/8595254/ |url-status=live }}</ref> His grandfather Kiheiji Tomino was the mayor of Ōjima and [[statutory auditor]] of Ōtsuka Rubber Works.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2020-09-01 |title=ガンダム監督の「敗北者宣言」【富野由悠季】 |url=https://koken-publication.com/archives/706 |accessdate=2021-07-24 |website=Koken |language=ja |archive-date=2021-07-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724224732/https://koken-publication.com/archives/706 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=富野喜平次 (第8版) – 『人事興信録』データベース |url=https://jahis.law.nagoya-u.ac.jp/who/docs/who8-15213 |accessdate=2021-07-24 |website=Nagoya University Graduate School of Law |archive-date=2021-07-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724224732/https://jahis.law.nagoya-u.ac.jp/who/docs/who8-15213 |url-status=live }}</ref> His father Kihei Tomino was an employee at Japan Processed Fabrics, and his mother Sachiko was the daughter of town councillor and celluloid toy manufacturer Sakichi Tanaka.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |title=大衆人事録. 第5(昭和7年)版 タ-ワ之部 – 国立国会図書館デジタルコレクション |url=https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1688500/16 |access-date=2022-11-11 |website=National Diet Library |language=ja}}</ref> His uncle Kiheiji Tomino was a member of the [[Tokyo Prefecture (1868–1943)|Tokyo Prefectural Council]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=人事興信録. 第14版 下 – 国立国会図書館デジタルコレクション |url=https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1704455/245 |accessdate=2021-07-24 |website=National Diet Library |language=ja |archive-date=2021-07-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724224731/https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1704455/245 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Tomino's father Kihei aspired to become a photographer and studied art at the [[Nihon University]]. Kihei worked as a chemical engineer at the Odawara Arsenal developing pressurized suits for the [[Mitsubishi A6M Zero]] fighter plane during the [[Pacific War]]. Inspired by his father, Tomino dreamed of working in aerospace engineering, and later in engineering or mechanics. However, after failing the entrance exam to a technical high school, he was forced to switch to the humanities. He spent his senior year of high school studying the basics of story writing and practiced writing novels.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Tomino |first=Yoshiyuki |title=Tomino Yoshiyuki Zenshigoto |publisher=Kinema Junpo |year=1999 |isbn=978-4873765143 |pages=40–41}}</ref> He graduated from Sōyō High School.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |date=2020-11-24 |title=アニメを変えた男 上 創作の道へ 子供向け 手抜けない |pages=24 |work=Kitanippon Shimbun}}</ref>

Fascinated by the postwar influx of American science fiction films, he entered the film department of Nihon University College of Art.<ref name=":3" />