Mobile Suit Gundam 

In the war between the Earth Federation and Zeon, a young and inexperienced crew find themselves on a new spaceship. Their best hope of making it through the conflict is the Gundam, a giant humanoid robot, and its gifted teenage pilot.

Creators:

Yoshiyuki Tomino, Hajime Yatate

Stars:

Tôru Furuya, Alaina Burnett, Chris Kalhoon

Cast

Series cast summary:
Tôru Furuya	...	Amuro Ray 43 episodes, 1979-1980
Alaina Burnett	...	Sayla Mass 42 episodes, 1979-1980
Chris Kalhoon	...	Bright Noa 42 episodes, 1979-1980
Michael Kopsa	...	Char Aznable 42 episodes, 1979-1980
Brad Swaile	...	Amuro Ray 42 episodes, 1979-1980
Cathy Weseluck	...	Mirai Yashima / ... 42 episodes, 1979-1980
Eric Schneider	...	Degwin Zabi (English Voice) / ... 30 episodes, 1979-1980
Glen Hopkins	...	Omur Fang 23 episodes, 1979-1980
Sachio Kumagai	...	Omur Fang 22 episodes, 1979-1980

Storyline

It is the year 0079 of the Universal Century. A war has broken out between the Principality of Zeon, a space colony that wants independence, and the Earth Federation. A teenage boy has to pilot the Federation's new secret weapon when the space colony in which he lives is attacked by Zeon mobile suits, gigantic robots piloted by humans. That new secret weapon is called the Gundam, a far more powerful mobile suit. The story follows Amuro Ray and many other civilians around his age who have to take over a Federation spaceship and become soldiers in order to survive the war against Zeon's forces throughout the One Year War.

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Plot Keywords:

shared universe | outer space | gundam | pilot | mobile suit | 

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Genres:

Animation | Action | Drama | Sci-Fi

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

16 July 2001 (USA)

Also Known As:

Mobile Suit Gundam

Company Credits

Production Co:

Sotsu Agency, Sunrise

Technical Specs

Runtime:

30 min (43 episodes) 30 min (43 episodes)

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The final episodes (encompassing the battles of Solomon and A Bao a Q) were originally planned to be more elaborate, with exotic Zeon mecha defending the fortresses. Budget cuts scrapped the episodes (and the designs) although at least two (the Dom-like Dowdage and Gelgoog-Like Galbaldy ) does become resurrected for Z Gundam and Gundam ZZ.

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Quotes

Amuro Ray: Sorry, Lalah, I... I still have a place I can come home to. And I could never be happier. I'm sure you understand. We can be together anytime we want, Lalah.

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Alternate Versions

The American (R1) DVD of Television series is in English only.

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Connections

Referenced in Super Robot Wars 64 (1999)

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Soundtracks

Eien ni Amuro
(Forever Amuro)
Ending theme
Performed by Kô Ikeda with Feeling Free
Lyrics by Rin Iogi (Yoshiyuki Tomino)
Music by Takeo Watanabe
Arrangement by Yûshi Matsuyama

User Reviews

The First Gundam Anime, Ever!!

Many people pass up the Mobile Suit Gundam TV for the Movie trilogy and you would be making a big mistake to pass up the TV series. Why? Because it was the first Gundam series ever. This was originally supposed to be a 52 episode TV series but had to get cut down to 39. Then Tomino, the director and creator, asked for 4 more episodes and he got them to make the count 43 and created the greatest ending to gundam. Though, and I'm not going to spoil anything but the final battle is much more epic in the movie trilogy than the TV series only because the show was getting canceled and things had to be rushed but whatever was rushed in the TV series was fixed or slowed down in the movies. Theanimation, though from 1979 and 1980 looks really good. I've seen anime from the mid-late 80's and in every gundam series animation, character and mecha designs are all high quality and have the power to stand up to newer anime, but if you were born into watching your anime bright and digital, circa. 1997, then you may be put off by it's animation style however that's your problem for missing something so great because of the animation. I highly, highly, recommend that you see the TV series first but only until episode 38 then watch the movie trilogy because it will be well worth it.