Tag: Gundam

September 20, 2023 · 1 comment

By Andrew Osmond. For some fans, G Gundam is the series with a giant robot that looks like an American footballer, complete with shoulder pads. Or maybe it’s the show with the British Gundam (“John Bull Gundam”) that looks like a Beefeater, or the Canadian Gundam (“Lumber Gundam”) that wields twin axes. Or the Chinese […]

August 30, 2023 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Gundam Build Fighters is about a hyper-enthused little boy, so it makes sense it was directed by Kenji Nagasaki, who’d go on to direct a little series called My Hero Academia. It’s also the first Gundam to acknowledge that the franchise isn’t just about warfare, and catastrophe, and tragic rivalries. No, Gundam […]

September 18, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. The film Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan’s Island goes all the way back to the start of the Gundam franchise. Gundam is like Star Trek; it may have had umpteen different iterations over the decades, but the original has a mystique that’s never truly equalled. In Gundam’s case, that’s the 1979 TV […]

September 9, 2022 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Gundam Seed Destiny is the direct sequel to the earlier series Gundam Seed, which was covered on this blog here. Like the previous series, Destiny was created by Mitsuo Fukuda (director) and his wife Chiaki Morosawa (lead writer). It sees the return of several of the first Seed’s characters, though they’re joined […]

September 6, 2021 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. This blog frequently highlights the fact that many Gundam anime are designed to be accessible to newcomers. Gundam NT, quite honestly, isn’t one of them. Firstly, the film’s very much a sequel to the lavish series Gundam Unicorn, which is a good starting point for newbies, covered on the blog here. Gundam […]