Description: It is year 0079 of the Universal Century. Genres: Action Military Sci-Fi Space Mecha. I also manage Mecha Damashii and do toy reviews over at . Mobile Suit Gundam: 0079 (1979) Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older.

Update: Both Gundam Seed and Gundam: 08th MS Team have now also been added to Hulu.įollow me on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. If Sunrise really wants to capitalize on its mecha anime back catalog, then surely Dougram, VOTOMS and Layzner will have to be a part of this ongoing strategy at some point.Īll these new Gundam series on Hulu are available either dubbed into English or with the original Japanese audio and English subtitles. His anime helped shape the Western perception of mecha and in turn birthed BattleTech, MechWarrior and Heavy Gear. Personally, I think Sunrise needs to double down on Ryosuke Takahashi’s oeuvre. From the Blu-ray releases by Right Stuf Anime and Discotek to things like the Hi-Metal R Dougram out this May, all of this is clearly part of a broader strategy to increase the market scope of Sunrise's vast portfolio of properties. While both 08th MS Team and Gundam: The Origin tie into the Universal Century timeline, specifically that of the One Year War era, they can be watched without any real prior knowledge of the saga.Īll this aside though, it seems that Sunrise is definitely making a concerted effort to make Gundam and its other classic mecha anime widely available in the West. September through December in the year Universal Century 0079 the Principality of Zeon invents a gigantic human-shaped weapon called the Mobile Suit and. The other good news in all this for people looking to get into Gundam is that these series are almost all entirely standalone in terms of their story. Mobile Suit Gundam, known in Japan as Kid Senshi Gundam (Japanese:, Hepburn: Kid Senshi Gandamu, also known as First Gundam, Gundam 0079 or simply Gundam '79), is an anime television series, produced and animated by Nippon Sunrise. It also has fantastic mecha design by both Kanetake Ebikawa and Takayuki Yanase, which is something I had to act upon recently with my purchase of the incredible Metal Build 00 Raiser. The narrative is one of the most cogent in terms of what it sets out to do and is probably my favorite of the alternate timeline Gundam shows.

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