Star Wars: Visions finally brings the galaxy far, far away to anime for the first time later this year, but Gundam has long since fulfilled anime fans’ dreams of epic dogfights spiraling through the air as commanders issue orders around giant space ships. Epic fights between giant robots in space, shooting at each other's metal shields or dueling with lightsabers, make up much of the action. Mobile Suit Gundam has everything you'd want in a space opera, and it especially delivers a sprawling ensemble of complex characters, filled with memorable personalities and secret backstories.
Amuro is involuntarily enlisted as a soldier and forced to fight against Zeon's forces while being relentlessly chased by the mysterious (and utterly charming) Zeon hotshot fighter ace known as Char Aznable.ĭid I mention the robots wielding lightsabers? Nippon Sunrise In all this chaos, we meet Amuro Ray, the teenaged son of a scientist, who accidentally becomes the pilot of a super-secret mobile suit codenamed Gundam - essentially a giant robot piloted from the inside. As the series opens, a colony is dropped on top of Earth, obliterating Australia. The story takes place in the year 0079 - of the “Universal Century” - during what is called the One Year War, a conflict between the Earth Federation and a group of separatist space colonies known as the Principality of Zeon. Okay, so: what is Gundam? You may be familiar with the titular giant robot from its appearance in Ready Player One, but the franchise is about so much more than just a very cool weapon.
Instead, this Gundam cuts straight to the action and philosophy at the heart of a long-lasting, critically acclaimed franchise. This may be sacrilegious to say, but the original Gundam had some issues in terms of its storytelling, most of which have been excised from this version. That's right: this is the Mobile Suit Gundam movie trilogy, condensed and re-edited into one lean feature so that audiences can get all the story’s meat and none of its fat. Comprised of dozens of anime series, films, and video games, Mobile Suit Gundam is now streaming in condensed form, via a compilation film that knits together footage from the original 1979 anime of the same name. But this franchise also marks one of the more elaborate anti-war statements ever delivered in mainstream animation. Broadly, it focuses on teenage boys who pilot giant mecha that wage war using equally giant lightsabers.
Even after 40 years, Yoshiyuki Tomino's Mobile Suit Gundam remains an exhilarating piece of popular entertainment.
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