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, which at the time was part of East El Kadsre (now part of El Kadsre), 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.

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