"Mobile Suit Gundam" (1979) is largely considered the first series to introduce the real robot concept and, along with "The Super Dimension Fortress Macross" (1982), would form the basis of what people would later call real robot anime. In an interview with Yoshiyuki Tomino and other production crew members in the April 1989 issue of "Newtype", about his views on the first "Gundam" anime that was not directed by him, he commented on the realism of the show, in which he sees the sponsors, Sunrise, as imaginary enemies of "Gundam", since they did not accept a certain level of realism. "Armored Trooper Votoms" is viewed by "Famitsu" magazine as the peak of real-robot anime.