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Mobile Suit Gundam (Japanese:機動戦士ガンダム,Hepburn:Kidō Senshi Gandamu) is a Japaneseanime television series produced byNippon Sunrise. Created and directed byYoshiyuki Tomino, it premiered in Japan onNagoya Broadcasting Network and its affiliatedANN stations on April 7, 1979, airing 43 episodes until its cancellation on January 26, 1980.[a] It was the firstGundam series, which has subsequently been adapted into numerous sequels and spin-offs. Set in the futuristiccalendar year "Universal Century" 0079, the plot focuses on the war between the Principality of Zeon and the Earth Federation, with the latter unveiling a newgiant robot known as theRX-78-2 Gundam, piloted by the 15 year old civilianAmuro Ray.
The character designs were done byYoshikazu Yasuhiko, andKunio Okawara was responsible for the robot designs, including the eponymous RX-78-2 Gundam. The first film was released on February 22, 1981. Tomino himself also wrote a trilogy of novels that retell the events of the series. Threemanga adaptations of the series have also been produced.
Despite initial low ratings that caused the series' cancellation, the popularity ofGundam saw a boost from the introduction ofBandai'sGunpla models in 1980 fromreruns and the release of a trilogy of compilation films. The series is considered notable for pioneering a depiction of mechs as mass-produced weapons of war.
In the yearUniversal Century 0079, a cluster ofSpace Colonies calling itself the Principality of Zeon declares independence from the Earth Federation, and subsequently launched a war of independence known as the One Year War. Zeon, though smaller, has the tactical upper hand through their use of a new type of humanoid weapons called Mobile Suits. Half of all humanity perishes within the first week of the conflict, the war settled into a bitter eight month stalemate.
The series begins with a newly deployed Federation warship, theWhite Base, arriving at the colony Side 7 to pick up a Federation protoype Mobile Suit. Unbeknownst to the Federation, a Zeon reconnaissance team was sent to gather information on this prototype. Disobeying orders, a Zeon soldier attacks the colony, killing most of the Federation crew and civilians in the process. TeenagedAmuro Ray discovers the Federation's prototype—theRX-78 Gundam. Despite his lack of experience, he's able to destroy the attacking Zaku II Mobile suits, but not without further damaging the colony. With their home colony damaged, the survivors have little choice but to join up with the White Base.
On their journey, the White Base members often encounter the Zeon Lieutenant CommanderChar Aznable. Although not shy to fight the Federation, Char has a personal grudge towards Zeon's ruling Zabi family, and he takes advantage of his position to seek revenge. In one such case, he feeds Garma Zabi false information that gets him killed. Throughout the series, Char Aznable's backstory is slowly revealed. The name Char Aznable is merely an alias, his father was Zeon Zum Deikun, one of the original leaders of Zeon before the Zabi dynasty took over.
Char Aznable eventually meets up with a psychic namedLalah Sune. A love triangle between her, Char, and Amuro eventually forms. In a battle between Amuro and Char, Lalah is caught in Amuro's crossfire. When the Federation Forces invade the Fortress of A Baoa Qu to decisively defeat Zeon, Amuro engages on a final one-on-one duel against Char, with both blaming the other for Lalah's death. Having realized he forgot his true enemy, Char stops fighting to kill the last surviving Zabi member, Kycilia Zabi. Amuro then reunites with his comrades as the war reaches its end, leaving behind the Gundam as it was rendered inoperable after his battle.
In February 1980,Mobile Suit Gundam was aired in Italy, the first country to broadcast the show outside Japan.[1]Mobile Suit Gundam was also later aired by the anime satellite television network,Animax, across Japan, with the series continuing to be aired on the network currently, and later its respective networks worldwide, including Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and other regions.
Hoping to capitalize on the success ofGundam Wing from the previous year,Bandai Entertainment released a heavily edited and English-dubbed version ofMobile Suit Gundam, premiering onCartoon Network'sToonami weekday afternoon after-school action programming block across the United States on Monday, July 23, 2001. The series did not do as well asWing but the ratings were high enough for the whole series to be aired and to spawn an enormous toy line. Due to9/11, many American TV stations began pulling and editing war-themed content and violent programming, resulting in the early cancelation of the series. However, the series finale was shown as part of Toonami's "New Year's Eve-il" special on December 31, 2001.[2] On Saturday, June 8, 2002, the series would later air on their late-nightAdult Swim block, starting over from the first episode, but it was again pulled before completing its run due to low ratings.
On May 30, 2006, Bandai Entertainment re-released the English dub of the TV series in a 10 volume DVD set.[3] There was no Japanese audio track included, apparently becauseYoshiyuki Tomino felt that the original mono mix was in too poor of a condition to use.[4] However, in 2007 the original series was released on DVD in Japan, which sold over 100,000 copies within a month's time from December 21, 2007, to January 21, 2008.[5]
At the 2010New York Comic Con/New York Anime Festival, Bandai Entertainment announced that they would re-releaseMobile Suit Gundam with both the original Japanese audio and the English dub. Bandai released it in two sets in the summer of 2011.[6] The first set was released on September 13, 2011.[7]
Following the closure in 2012 of Bandai Entertainment, the series went out of print. At theirNew York Comic Con 2014 panel, Sunrise announced their plans to re-release all of theGundam series on home video in North America, starting with the original series. They would be distributed viaRight Stuf Inc.[8] They released the series on Blu-ray and DVD in October 2015.[9]
On July 25, 2015, British anime distributor Anime Limited announced they would releaseMobile Suit Gundam in cooperation with Sunrise for the first time in the UK on DVD and Blu-ray.
The "Mobile Suits" of the show were inspired by thepowered armor from the novelStarship Troopers from 1959.[11] Mobile suits were conceptualized as human-like robots which would not only appeal to children.[10]
In previous series Tomino worked in, villains were alien agents.Mobile Suit Gundam was the first of his work which featured humans as antagonists. The director commented he wanted to tell a story about war.[10] He aimed to expose through art the horrors of the Japanese wartime aggression in Manchuria in 1939. Tomino wanted to avoidhistorical revisionism and instead use the story to force viewers to confront the tragic realities of war. The director was originally unwilling to discuss the message of his work, expecting the viewers to reach their own conclusion. Additionally, he commented he "packed his frustrations" when makingGundam.[12]
Tomino met mechanical designerKunio Okawara when working on two television series from Sunrise. Tomino liked Okawara's work and asked him to collaborate with him in his upcoming project. Originally, the anime would be called "Gunboy" but it was renamed toMobile Suit Gundam.[13] TheWhite Base, the mothership of the protagonist crew members, was designed with a three plane view method by Kunio Okawara, however, it was not specially designed for Gundam. It was actually a salvaged design from the animeInvincible Steel Man Daitarn 3.[14] The idea of having a space carrier was partly inspired by the earlier science fiction animeSpace Battleship Yamato, which Tomino claimed to be a fan of.[14] It was intended to be in a more realistic black color, but was changed to white by the order of Sunrise, who similarly ordered the titular Gundam be changed from a grayish white to white, red, blue and yellow. Director Tomino showed great disgust in the color change, also noticing the unrealistic non-aerodynamic design of it after the show had aired, said in an interview that such design would never appear in the real world, since it would be a sitting duck from fighter aircraft. Tomino later stated in an interview in an April 1989Newtype issue that the imaginary enemies of Gundam are Sunrise, sponsors and television stations.[15]
Tomino has compared Mobile Suits with religious history in Japan, most notably the worship ofBuddha statues located in temples. The relationship between the pilot and the mobile suit has also been compared with the wayFormula One drivers use their machines.[16] In order to give the Mobile Suits fast movements, most of the fights were situated in space where there was low gravity. This led to the creation of space colonies as a common setting. In order to explain how a person as young as Amuro could pilot the Gundam, the team came up with the idea ofNewtypes.[10]
Within the 43 episodes of the original run, the episode "Cucuruz Doan's Island" stands out. Due to the director's request, the episode was never officially released in an English context.[17] This episode was not used in the compilation films. On June 3, 2022Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island released as an adaptation of this episode.
In 1979, while the anime was airing, Yoshiyuki Tomino wrote the first novelizations of the originalGundam anime series. The novels, published as a trilogy, allowed him to depict his story in a more sophisticated, adult, and detailed fashion. This adaptation included several major changes to the story. For example, Amuro is already a member of the Federation military at the time of the initial Zeon attack on Side 7, and the main characters in the Federation serve on theWhite Base-class shipsPegasus andPegasus II rather than thePegasus-classWhite Base.[18] TheOne Year War continues well into the year UC 0080 in the novels, whereas it concludes at the beginning of that year in the anime series. In the novel Amuro Ray is killed in the final attack against the Zeon stronghold of A Baoa Qu when his RX-78-3 is pierced through the torso by a Rick Dom's beam bazooka. This occurs as Char's unit attempts to warn him about Gihren's intention to destroy the fortress and take the Federation's offensive fleet along with it. Char and the crew ofPegasus II (White Base), along with handpicked men under Kycilia Zabi's command, make a deep penetrating attack against the Side 3 and together kill Gihren Zabi, after which Kycilia is killed by Char. Tomino later lamented that had he known that the anime's ending would be different and that another series would be made, he would not have killed off Amuro in the novels.
The three novels were translated into English byFrederik Schodt and published byDel Rey Books in September 1990. At the time, there were no officially recognized romanized names for certain words in the franchise. The original Japanese for many proper nouns were written inkatakana, which gives a lot of leeway for localizing renditions. Many years later, when theGundam series was finally licensed in North America, the rights holders came up with a unified list of "official spellings" for English-language material.
In 2004, Frederik Schodt revised his original translation of the books, which had been out of print for nearly a decade. What had been a three volume set in the 1990 Del Rey edition was re-released byStone Bridge Press as one single volume of 476 pages with new cover art, titledMobile Suit Gundam: Awakening, Escalation, Confrontation. Since the rights holders in Japan by this time had settled on official translated names, Schodt was able to update the translation to reflect the official terminology.[19]
These novels influenced the 2025Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX series, co-writerYoji Enokido and directorKazuya Tsurumaki stating that they made it feel natural to turn character Challia Bull into part of the main cast.[20]
On August 9, 1997, Tomino releasedSecret Rendezvous, a novel duology centered around characters Amuro and Lalah.
A direct novelization by Masaaki Nakane was also released by Asahi Sonorama; it has almost the same plot as the TV series.
For its 15th anniversary, theNewtype magazine serialisedFor the Barrel, an adaptation of the series by Gichi Ohtsuka based on Tomino's novel trilogy.[21][22]
Following the success of theMobile Suit Gundam TV series, in 1981 Tomino reworked the footage into three separate compilation films. The first two films,Mobile Suit Gundam I (also known asMobile Suit Gundam The Movie) andMobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow, were released in 1981. The third film,Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space, was released in 1982.
The trilogy ofcompilation films primarily reused footage from the television series, supplemented with new animation and revisions. Tomino removed several aspects of the show which he felt were too unrealistic for the show he intendedGundam to be, such as the Gundam Hammer (a large spiked ball on a chain). The G-Armor upgrade parts (used for transformations) were also completely removed and replaced in the narrative by the Core Booster support fighters, and Hayato receives a RX-77 Guncannon at Jaburo to replace the disadvantaged RX-75 Guntank. The third film also includes a substantial amount of new footage expanding on the battles of Solomon and A Baoa Qu.
The firstGundam film, upon release on February 22, 1981, drew a large crowd of 15,000 people at its premiere, leading to concerns from police and media that it could lead to social unrest from a riotous crowd. The event is considered a turning point in thehistory of anime, referred to as "the day that anime changed" according toAsahi Shimbun newspaper.[23] The first film grossed¥1.76 billion, andGundam II grossed¥1.38 billion.[24]Encounters in Space was 1982's fourthhighest-grossing Japanese film, with adistribution income of¥1.29 billion[25] and a total box office gross of¥2.31 billion.[26][user-generated source] Collectively, the trilogy grossed¥5.45 billion at the Japanese box office.[24]
In 1998, the three films were first released directly to VHS with English subtitles as part of Bandai's AnimeVillage releases, which makes them among the firstGundam works released in English. A year later, Bandai released an English dub of three compilation films in 1999. Featuring the voice ofMichael Lindsay as Amuro Ray, andSteve Blum as Char Aznable. The dub pronounces the word Gundam as "Gun-dam", and the Principality of Zeon was called the "Duchy of Zeon". Sunrise prevented it from being re-released after its debut on VHS. The films were released again in North America on May 7, 2002, in DVD format, available separately or in a boxed set. These are also available only with re-done Japanese audio with English subtitles, the DVDs identical to the 20th anniversary release of the film compilation in Japan. The surviving original Japanese voice cast members rerecorded their lines. The 20th anniversary release was digitally remastered and many of the sound effects were replaced, most notably the futuristic gun sounds being replaced by louder machine gun sound effects. The music soundtrack was rearranged and in some cases tracks were removed from certain scenes. The vocal songs were rearranged also. For example, in the closing credits of the second and third films.
Bandai Visual has announced the re-release of theMobile Suit Gundam films on DVD from new HD masters and with the original, theatrical, mono audio mix. This boxed set was released in Japan on December 21, 2007.[27][28] On May 18, 2010, Bandai Entertainment re-released the 20th anniversary version of the trilogy under their Anime Legends label.[29][30] As with the TV series, the films were re-released in North America under Sunrise themselves with distribution fromRight Stuf Inc.[8]
The films were distributed on DVD in the United Kingdom by Beez Entertainment in 2005 with a selection of subtitle tracks including English. Anime Ltd. has since acquired the UK license and has released a limited edition Blu-ray box set of the film trilogy (limited to 500 units) as an exclusive, sold only on their AllTheAnime.com store. It was released on March 27, 2017, in Japanese with English subtitles only.
An animated film titledMobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island (Japanese:機動戦士ガンダム ククルス·ドアンの島,Hepburn:Kidō Senshi Gandamu Kukurusu Doan no Shima) was released on June 3, 2022, a remake of the "Cucuruz Doan's Island" episode which had previously never been released in English[31] per Tomino's wishes.[17] Although the film follows the same order of events as directorYoshikazu Yasuhiko'sMobile Suit Gundam: The Origin manga retelling of the show, he insisted on it being a remake of the episode and not titling it afterThe Origin.[32]
There have been three manga series based onMobile Suit Gundam. One, written byYū Okazaki, was serialized inAkita Shoten'sBoken-Oh magazine between May 1979 and February 1982 and compiled into two volumes.[33] Another isMobile Suit Gundam 0079 by Kazuhisa Kondo. It was published byMediaWorks from August 1992 to August 2005 inCyber Comics andMS Saga anthologies and later inDengeki Daioh magazine, and was collected in twelvetankōbon volumes.[34] Viz Media published its first nine volumes in English between 2000 and 2003.
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin, the third of such manga, was written by anime character designerYoshikazu Yasuhiko, character designer and animation director for the original television series. It was published from June 2001 to June 2011 inKadokawa Shoten'sGundam Ace magazine and collected in a total of 24tankōbon volumes. The series was first released in English byViz Media but was dropped before it was completed; it was then released byVertical from March 2013 to December 2015.The Origin features several sequences which elaborate on events prior to the original show. From 2015-2018, this backstory was adapted into a series of theatrical OVAs.
Besides adaptations, there is a parodyyonkoma manga titledMobile Suit Gundam-san, which was written and illustrated by Hideki Ohwada and serialized in Kadokawa Shoten'sGundam Ace magazine since 2001. This manga was adapted into an anime in 2014. Ohwada also created a spinoff manga,Gundam Sousei (ガンダム創世), which follows Yoshiyuki Tomino and the Sunrise staff as they work to make the television series and the compilation films. This series was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten'sGundam Ace magazine from 2009 to 2011 and compiled in theGundam-san tankōbon starting in Volume 5. Kadokawa released two tankōbon volumes collectingGundam Sousei chapters asThe Men Who Created Gundam (「ガンダム」を創った男たち,"Gundam" wo Tsukutta Otoko-tachi).Denpa publishedThe Men Who Created Gundam in English in June 2022 as an omnibus volume.
A one-shot manga written and illustrated by Junji Oono,Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan’s Island: Doan and Rolland, was published on June 24, 2022 in the appendix to the August issue ofGundam Ace. It serves as a prequel to the "Cucuruz Doan's Island" episode of the series.
A continuation of theMobile Suit Gundam 0079 manga, titledMobile Suit Gundam 0079 Episode Luna II, was serialized inGundam Ace from November 26, 2022, to January 26, 2024 and collected into one volume.[35][36]
The success of the Gundam franchise lead to many different videogames. There are some which directly adapt the television series. One of the first to go in this direction was 1983'sGundam: Daichi ni Tatsu, an adventure game.[37] More recent examples includeMobile Suit Gundam: Journey to Jaburo and its sequelMobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space.Gundam 0079 The War for Earth loosely adapts the story of Gundam in the form of a live-action FMV game developed byPresto Studios, a non-Japanese company.
Some Gundam games such asMobile Suit Gundam: Zeonic Front,Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire,Gundam Side Story 0079: Rise From the Ashes, are set during the events of the original series but focus on new protagonists and fronts of the conflict. Some of them may feature a Zeon perspective. These games may feature brief references to elements of the original show, such as Zeonic Front including a mission where you gather information on the White Base.
Giren's Greed is a series of strategy wargames. It allows you to recreate many Gundam scenarios, including ones in the One Year War. It also has the opportunity for player actions to create alternate outcomes for events.
There are also many Gundam games which operate in a much "looser" relationship to storytelling and continuity, sometimes even crossing over multiple series. TheGundam Battle Assault series of 2d fighting games features Mobile Suits from multiple eras at once. TheGundam Vs. series of 3D fighters features Mobile Suits from multiple timelines.Dynasty Warriors: Gundam attempts more of a story with its crossover.
Gundam has also made many appearances in crossover videogames. TheCompati Hero franchise features aSuper deformed style where Mobile Suits exist alongsideUltraman andKamen Rider characters. TheSuper Robot Wars franchise of strategy RPGs also features Gundam, among other mecha franchises.Another Century's Episode is a crossover fighting game series which has some Gundam suits.
Games that have been unreleased in countries outside Japan[citation needed] include:
Gundam was not popular when it first aired, and in fact came close to being canceled. The series was originally set to run for 52 episodes but was cut down to 39 by the show's sponsors, which included toymakerClover. However, the staff was able to negotiate a one-month extension, ending the series with 43 episodes.[38] WhenBandai bought the rights to produce plastic models of Mobile Suits, considered a different market than Clover'sChogokin line of toys, things changed completely. With the introduction ofGunpla, the success of the show began to soar. The models sold very well, Bandai sponsored a rerun of the show, eventually leading to the theatrical release of three compilation movies.[39] At the time, anime was dominated by theSuper Robot genre. Gundam's take on the genre would retroactively be referred to as the "Real Robot" genre.[40] The Anime ranked #2 onWizard's Anime Magazine on their "Top 50 Anime released in North America".[41] InTV Asahi's poll of the Top 100 Anime,Gundam came in 2nd.[42] It is regarded as changing the concept of Japanese robot anime and the turning point of history in Japan.[43]
The originalGundam series is still remembered and recognized within theanime fan community. The series revolutionizedmecha anime,[44] introducing the new Real Robot genre, and over the years became synonymous with the entire genre for many. As a result, for example,parodies of mecha genre commonly featurehomages toMobile Suit Gundam, thanks to its immediate recognizable status.[45]
The series was the first winner of theAnimage Anime Grand Prix prize, in 1979 and the first half of 1980. In the top 100 anime fromAnimage,Gundam was twenty-fourth.[46] The magazineWizard listed the series as the second best anime of all time.[47] By the end of 2007, each episode of the original TV series averaged a sales figure of 80,928 copies, including all of the different formats it was published in (VHS, LD, DVD, etc.).[48] The first DVD box set sold over 100,000 copies in the first month of release, from December 21, 2007, to January 21, 2008.[49] As part of the 30th Anniversary of the Gundam series, the company officially announced a project on March 11, 2009, calledReal-G, a plan to build a1:1 real size scale Gundam in Japan. It was completed in July 2009 and displayed in a Tokyo park then taken down later.[50] The 18-meter tall statue was reconstructed in Shizuoka Prefecture and was taken down in March 2011.[51] In August 2011 it was dismantled only to reopen in Odaiba, Tokyo on April 19, 2012.[52][53] It stood Odaiba along with a gift shop called "Gundam Front Tokyo" until it was dismantled in March 2016.
Most of the critical response to the series has been due to the setting and characters.John Oppliger observes that the characters ofAmuro Ray, to whom the young Japanese of that time could easily relate, andChar Aznable, who was "simply [...] fascinating", made a major contribution to the series' popularity. He also concludes that "in many respects First Gundam stands for the nostalgic identifying values of everything that anime itself represents".[45] The series has been praised byAnime News Network for the way it portrays war, with Amuro facing many traumatic events.[54][55] The series is also noted for having humans as an enemy faction. However, the animation has been noted to have notoriously aged when compared with series seen in the 2000s.[55][56]
Mecha anime creatorShoji Kawamori attendedKeio University in the same years asMacross screenwriterHiroshi Ōnogi and character designerHaruhiko Mikimoto, where they had aMobile Suit Gundam fan club called "Gunsight One", a name they would use years later as the call sign of the bridge of theSDF-1 spaceship from their firstMacross anime television series. In fact,The Super Dimension Fortress Macross mecha anime series was inspired by Gundam in several aspects during its early development.[57]Guillermo del Toro has cited the series as an influence onPacific Rim.[58]
American musicianRichie Kotzen, former guitarist fromPoison and Mr. Big, released an album calledAi Senshi ZxR in 2006 in Japan. The album consisted of covered music from the Gundam series and original songs. American musicianAndrew W.K. released an album calledGundam Rock on September 9, 2009, in Japan. The album consists of covered music from the Gundam series to celebrate its 30th anniversary.[59]
"Gundam the Ride: A Baoa Qu" was anamusement park attraction at theFuji-Q Highland Amusement Park located inFujiyoshida, Yamanashi, Japan. It was adark ride for the park. Gundam the Ride opened to the public on July 20, 2000. Set during the final chaotic Battle of A Baoa Qu, Gundam the Ride places its riders in an Escape Launch Shuttle about to leave the battleshipSuruga.
The animation of Gundam the Ride used mostly computer graphics, however, all human characters were hand-drawn cel animation. All of the character designs for Gundam the Ride were done byHaruhiko Mikimoto. The ride's characters make a cameo appearance in the video game "Encounters in Space" while the player (playing as Amuro Ray in his Gundam) is making his way through theDolos.
The ride closed on January 8, 2007, and replaced with "Gundam Crisis" The attraction's main feature is a full size 1:1 Gundam model, lying flat inside the venue. Instead of sitting in a movable cockpit and watching a movie, it involves participants carrying handheld devices throughout to find certain pieces of information, similar to ascavenger hunt, in order to activate the Gundam. The interior of the attraction is a mock-up of a Federation ship, and staff act as crew members.
I asked that it would be skipped. There is a reason, but since the staff is still alive I can't answer it. It's a long story.
According to the liner notes of the AnimEigo DVD release of the Macross TV seriesGunsight One was also the fanzine title of theGundam fan club that creator Shoji Kawamori, character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto, and writer Hiroshi Oonogi (members number 1, 2, and 3 of said club) founded while they were students at Keio University in Japan...
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