He aimed to expose thoroughly starting with Japanese aggression in Manchuria in 1939.
Amuro then reunites with his comrades as the war reaches its end. ==Production== The "Mobile Suits" of the show were inspired by the powered armor from the novel Starship Troopers from 1959.
Created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, it premiered in Japan on Nagoya Broadcasting Network and its affiliated ANN stations on April 7, 1979, and lasted until January 26, 1980, spanning 43 episodes.
The episode remained on the Japanese DVD and Blu-ray releases. ===Novel=== In 1979, before the end of the anime, Yoshiyuki Tomino himself created the first novelizations of the original Gundam anime series.
One was written by Yū Okazaki between 1979 and 1980.
The Anime ranked #2 on Wizard's Anime Magazine on their "Top 50 Anime released in North America", and is regarded as changing the concept of Japanese robot anime and the turning point of history in Japan. Despite being released in 1979, the original Gundam series is still remembered and recognized within the anime fan community.
As a result, for example, parodies of mecha genre commonly feature homages to Mobile Suit Gundam, thanks to its immediate recognizability. The series was the first winner of the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize, in 1979 and the first half of 1980.
Created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, it premiered in Japan on Nagoya Broadcasting Network and its affiliated ANN stations on April 7, 1979, and lasted until January 26, 1980, spanning 43 episodes.
Two manga adaptations of the series have also been written by two manga artists. Despite initial low ratings that caused the series' cancellation, the popularity of Gundam saw a boost from the introduction of Bandai's Gunpla models in 1980 and from reruns and the theatrical release of the anime, leading to the creation of a prolific and lucrative media and toy franchise.
In order to explain how could such a young man as Amuro pilot the Gundam, the team came up with the idea of Newtypes. ==Media== ===Anime=== In February 1980, Mobile Suit Gundam was aired in Italy, the first country to broadcast the show outside Japan.
One was written by Yū Okazaki between 1979 and 1980.
As a result, for example, parodies of mecha genre commonly feature homages to Mobile Suit Gundam, thanks to its immediate recognizability. The series was the first winner of the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize, in 1979 and the first half of 1980.
Set in the futuristic calendar year "Universal Century" 0079, the plot focuses on the war between the Principality of Zeon and the Earth Federation, with the latter unveiling a new giant robot known as the RX-78-2 Gundam piloted by the teenage civilian mechanic Amuro Ray. In 1981, the series was re-edited for theatrical release and split into three movies.
The first movie was released on February 22, 1981.
Since the rights holders in Japan by this time had created a unified (although still evolving) list of romanized character and mecha names, Schodt was able to use it, and Amuro's rival in the novel thus became "Char" and not "Sha"; the popular Zeon Mobile Suit, similarly, became "Zaku," and not "Zak". ===Compilation movies=== Following the success of the Mobile Suit Gundam TV series, in 1981 Tomino reworked the footage into three separate compilation movies.
The first two movies, Mobile Suit Gundam and Mobile Suit Gundam: Soldiers of Sorrow, were released in 1981.
The third movie also includes a substantial amount of new footage expanding on the battles of Solomon and A Baoa Qu. The first Gundam film, upon release on 22 February 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 third movie, Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space, was released in 1982. Each of the three movies is largely composed of old footage from the TV series, however Tomino felt that some things could be changed for the better.
Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space was 1982's fourth highest-grossing Japanese film, with a distribution income of and a total box office gross of .
It was published in Dengeki Comics from 1985 to 1986 in a total of twelve tankōbon volumes.
It was published in Dengeki Comics from 1985 to 1986 in a total of twelve tankōbon volumes.
Tomino still held a grudge 10 years after the show aired and stated in an interview in Newtype 1989 April issue that the imaginary enemies of Gundam are Sunrise, sponsors and television stations. Tomino compares the machines with religious history in Japan, most notably the worship of Buddha statues located in temples.
Tomino later lamented that had he known that anime 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 by Frederik Schodt and published by Del Rey Books in September 1990.
What had been a three volume set in the 1990 Del Rey edition was re-released by Stone Bridge Press as one single volume of 476 pages (with a vastly improved cover design), titled Mobile Suit Gundam: Awakening, Escalation, Confrontation.
Collectively, the trilogy grossed at the Japanese box office. In 1998, the three compilation movies were first released directly to VHS subtitled into English as part of Bandai's AnimeVillage releases, which makes them among the first Gundam works released in English.
A year later, Bandai released an English dub of three compilation movies in 1999.
Viz Media later published its first nine volumes between 2000 and 2003.
However, the animation has been noted to have notoriously aged when compared with series seen in the 2000s. Mecha anime creator Shoji Kawamori attended Keio University in the same years as Macross screenwriter Hiroshi Ōnogi and character designer Haruhiko Mikimoto, where they had a Mobile Suit Gundam fan club called "Gunsight One", a name they would use years later as the call sign of the bridge of the SDF-1 spaceship from their first Macross anime television series.
Gundam the Ride, which opened to the public on July 20, 2000, was based on Mobile Suit Gundam.
However, the series finale was shown as part of Toonami's "New Year's Eve-il" special on December 31, 2001.
It was published from June 2001 to June 2011 in Kadokawa Shoten's Gundam Ace magazine and collected in a total of 23 tankōbon volumes.
The series was first released in English by Viz media but was dropped before it was completed; it was then released by Vertical Publishing from March 2013 to December 2015. Besides adaptations, there is a popular parody yonkoma manga titled Mobile Suit Gundam-san, which was written and drawn by Hideki Ohwada and serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Gundam Ace magazine since 2001.
On Saturday, June 8, 2002, the series was given another chance by Cartoon Network on their late-night Adult Swim block, starting over from the first episode, but it was again pulled before completing its run because of low ratings. On May 30, 2006, Bandai Entertainment re-released the English dub of the TV series in a 10 volume DVD set.
Tomino later publicly confirmed at Anime Expo New York 2002 that the name was originally based on the French name Charles Aznavour, a popular French-language singer.
The movies were released again in North America on May 7, 2002 in DVD format, available separately or in a boxed set.
Viz Media later published its first nine volumes between 2000 and 2003.
(The 2004 edition of the English translation revealed that Schodt felt that the "Char" rendering "seemed too close" to Aznavour's name.) He also rendered "Zaku" as "Zak," and (after consulting with Mr.
As with the TV series, the movies were re-released in North America under Sunrise themselves with distribution from Right Stuf Inc. The trilogy of films were distributed on DVD in the United Kingdom by Beez Entertainment in 2005 in Japanese and with a selection of subtitle tracks including English.
On Saturday, June 8, 2002, the series was given another chance by Cartoon Network on their late-night Adult Swim block, starting over from the first episode, but it was again pulled before completing its run because of low ratings. On May 30, 2006, Bandai Entertainment re-released the English dub of the TV series in a 10 volume DVD set.
Big, released an album called Ai Senshi ZxR in 2006 in Japan.
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. At the 2010 New York Comic Con/New York Anime Festival, Bandai Entertainment announced that they would re-release Mobile Suit Gundam with both the original Japanese audio and the English dub.
This boxed set was released in Japan on December 21, 2007.
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.).
The first DVD box set sold over 100,000 copies in the first month of release, from December 21, 2007 to January 21, 2008.
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 the Dolos. The ride closed on January 8, 2007 and replaced with "Gundam Crisis Attraction" The main feature of this attraction is a full size 1:1 Gundam model, lying flat inside the venue.
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. At the 2010 New York Comic Con/New York Anime Festival, Bandai Entertainment announced that they would re-release Mobile Suit Gundam with both the original Japanese audio and the English dub.
The first DVD box set sold over 100,000 copies in the first month of release, from December 21, 2007 to January 21, 2008.
This series was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Gundam Ace magazine from 2009 to 2011 and compiled in the Gundam-san tankōbon starting in Volume 5.
As part of the 30th Anniversary of the Gundam series, the company officially announced a project on March 11, 2009 called Real-G, a plan to build a 1:1 real size scale Gundam in Japan.
It was completed in July 2009 and displayed in a Tokyo park then taken down later.
also released an album called Gundam Rock on September 9, 2009, in Japan.
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. At the 2010 New York Comic Con/New York Anime Festival, Bandai Entertainment announced that they would re-release Mobile Suit Gundam with both the original Japanese audio and the English dub.
On May 18, 2010, Bandai Entertainment re-released the 20th anniversary version of the trilogy under their Anime Legends label.
Bandai released Gundam in two sets in the summer of 2011.
The first set was released on September 13, 2011. Following the closure in 2012 of Bandai Entertainment, the series went out of print.
It was published from June 2001 to June 2011 in Kadokawa Shoten's Gundam Ace magazine and collected in a total of 23 tankōbon volumes.
This series was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Gundam Ace magazine from 2009 to 2011 and compiled in the Gundam-san tankōbon starting in Volume 5.
The 18-meter tall statue was reconstructed in Shizuoka Prefecture and was taken down in March 2011.
In August 2011 it was dismantled only to reopen in Odaiba, Tokyo on April 19, 2012.
The first set was released on September 13, 2011. Following the closure in 2012 of Bandai Entertainment, the series went out of print.
In August 2011 it was dismantled only to reopen in Odaiba, Tokyo on April 19, 2012.
The series was first released in English by Viz media but was dropped before it was completed; it was then released by Vertical Publishing from March 2013 to December 2015. Besides adaptations, there is a popular parody yonkoma manga titled Mobile Suit Gundam-san, which was written and drawn by Hideki Ohwada and serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Gundam Ace magazine since 2001.
At their New York Comic-Con 2014 panel, Sunrise announced their plans to re-release all of the Gundam series on home video in North America, starting with the original series.
This manga was adapted into an anime in 2014.
The manga was also collected in two tankōbon volumes released on January 24, 2014. ===Video games=== (For the list below, only video games featuring mobile suits that appeared in the One Year War, or related variations) There have been many video games based on or with mobile suits from the original Gundam series.
They released the series on Blu-ray and DVD in October 2015. On July 25, 2015, UK anime distributor Anime Limited announced they will release Mobile Suit Gundam in cooperation with Sunrise for the first time in the UK on DVD and Blu-ray. In both American TV showings and on the international DVD and Blu-ray release, episode 15 ("Cucuruz Doan's Island") was cut out.
The series was first released in English by Viz media but was dropped before it was completed; it was then released by Vertical Publishing from March 2013 to December 2015. Besides adaptations, there is a popular parody yonkoma manga titled Mobile Suit Gundam-san, which was written and drawn by Hideki Ohwada and serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Gundam Ace magazine since 2001.
It stood Odaiba along with a gift shop called "Gundam Front Tokyo" until it was dismantled in March 2016. Most of the series' critical response has been owed to the setting and characters.
It was released on March, 27th 2017, in Japanese with English subtitles only. ===Manga=== There have been two manga series based on Mobile Suit Gundam.
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