Tomonori Akaishi

Tomonori Akaishi (Japanese: 赤石 智則, Hepburn: Akaishi Tomonori; born October 18th, 1968) is an El Kadsreian animator, manga artist and cartoonist. He dominated the kadsreanime industry throughout the 1990's and is well known as the creator of the Taranotchi franchise.

Early life (1968 - 1990)
Tomonori Akaishi was born on October 18th, 1968 in the city of Capulco, as the middle child of six children. His mother was a teacher at a nearby university and his father (who had Moroccan ancestry) worked in management with Takusa-Yakisu Inc. He grew up reading manga and watching television, mainly anime and tokusatsu shows, aswell as frequently going to the cinema to watch movies of the kaiju genre. He first came up with Taranotchi in 1979 after reading about the Middle Ages in his school library. During this time, it was very different to what it was now - there were a lot less characters, the artstyle was very different and the franchise was set in his hometown instead of in a fictional kingdom. In 1982, shorty after the events of Makohiro, at the age of 14, he was caught drawing manga at school. He would have been let off, but he was almost expelled as the main character's name was at the time very similar to that of Tara Fujimoto's, and the manga was about him visiting "a colonial empire ruled by an insane leader obsessed with peace". He was let off with simply a very strict talk with the principal and a few days of detention. Shortly afterwards, his parents, who opposed the Vlokist regime, transferred him to another school.

Career on Taranotchi (1990 - present)
In 1990, Tomonori began to work at the El Kadsreian branch of. as an animator for. A few months prior, he had started to draw the first chapters of the first Taranotchi manga (1990 - 1995). In 1991, he finished the first two volumes of the manga and submitted it to the main shōnen manga magazine in El Kadsre, TBA. It began to be printed weekly beginning May of 1991, and was published into Tankōbon books later that year, which became an extremely well-selling hit. It was later adapted into an anime in 1992 that increased the popularity of the Taranotchi franchise even more. He moved to El Kadsre City in 1994, and in 2000 returned to the manga genre, creating the second manga series of Taranotchi. He did not work on the 2008 - 2010 kadsreanime Taranotchi: New Adventures, but later returned to working on the televised series.

Personal life
Tomonori currently lives in El Kadsre City, El Kadsre. He has not considered starting a relationship with somebody and is most likely to be survived by his sibling's children.

Tomonori has relatively been majorly supported on the franchise, citing it as an inspiration for drawing. His response to the 1994 anime Welcome to Godzilland! was "a brilliant, fast paced anime with amazing storytelling, fantastic timing and relatively good humor. I have always liked kaijus myself and been a fan of Toho's content, and this is no exception."

Sagwa
Tomonori has been neutral about and its various spinoffs, but was formerly very negative about it. In a 2005 interview, he expressed "When this show came out and took El Kadsre by storm, I usually wouldn't have mind. However, seeing a picture book written by children [that the original show was based off of] practically outsell what was once formerly one of my most sold works almost broke me, and I felt like the fanbase of my creation Taranotchi had been cut in half. I am not saying 'oh, this thing became super popular and not my stuff, so it's automatically bad', but the fact I was almost in a bad financial situation due to it, aswell as the fact that I watched part of it myself. It is literally a show for preschoolers, and is a poorly written view on, nothing else special about it. The country has become obsessed with an obscure American preschool show and will presumably never let go of it, and I have virtually no idea why." He later said that "I guess this show has some charm to it, and I have learnt to respect it, but this doesn't mean that I automatically like it."