Tag: Yoshiyuki Tomino

October 14, 2017 · 1 comment

By Andrew Osmond. Gundam ZZ is a shocking series. It follows on from the original Mobile Suit Gundam serial and its sequel Zeta Gundam (both available from Anime Limited), which had taken viewers through a hugely tragic space opera. Gundam fans had seen heroes perish, casts of thousands obliterated, and a central conflict whose warring […]

June 11, 2016 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Anime Limited is introducing the Gundam franchise into Britain with a mix of old and new releases. The new Blu-ray of the very first Mobile Suit Gundam series gives us its genesis in 1979. Meanwhile, Gundam: The Origin (which Anime Limited distributed for Bandai Visual) and Gundam Reconguista in G were both […]

November 19, 2015 · 1 comment

By Andrew Osmond. I’m head-high with the Big G and girding my loins to meet the fabled father of Gundam. Or to put it another way, I’m in the eighth-floor lobby of the Hotel Gracery Shinjuku in Tokyo, looking out the window at a life-sized head of Godzilla. Perhaps the King of Monsters is glowering […]

April 16, 2015 · 1 comment

By Andrew Osmond Gundam is the greatest anime franchise, 36 years of warriors duelling in giant metal suits of armour, finding death or glory across several different histories and universes. Gundam: The Origin rewinds to the first Gundam in 1979, which envisaged a space war without aliens, fought between Earthlings and off-world humans, where both […]