{"id":1968,"date":"2023-09-20T01:29:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T00:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.alltheanime.com\/?p=30016"},"modified":"2023-09-20T01:29:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T00:29:39","slug":"g-gundam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/20\/g-gundam\/","title":{"rendered":"G Gundam"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Andrew Osmond.<\/p>\n

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For some fans, G Gundam<\/a><\/em> is the series with a giant robot that looks like an American footballer, complete with shoulder pads. Or maybe it\u2019s the show with the British Gundam (\u201cJohn Bull Gundam\u201d) that looks like a Beefeater, or the Canadian Gundam (\u201cLumber Gundam\u201d) that wields twin axes. Or the Chinese Gundam that has fire-breathing dragons for arms, or the Mexican Gundam with cacti<\/em> for arms\u2026<\/p>\n

You get the idea. If you think those sound silly, then I haven\u2019t even got to the really<\/em> deranged Gundams, many of which are held back to Volume 2.<\/p>\n

As you may have gathered, Mobile Fighter G Gundam <\/em>is not your average Gundam. Both detractors and defenders can argue it\u2019s best not thought as a Gundam series at all, but rather a piece of mecha madness closer in spirit to Gurren Lagann<\/em> or Promare<\/em>, or to other pieces of preposterousness like JoJo\u2019s Bizarre Adventure<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Officially at least, G Gundam<\/em> began on TV in 1994, marking the fifteenth anniversary of the original Gundam<\/em> in 1979. Up to then, all the Gundam<\/em> anime had been set in the same timeline, called the \u201cUniversal Century.\u201d G Gundam<\/em> succeeded the 1991 video series Gundam: Stardust Memory<\/em> and the 1993 TV series Victory Gundam<\/em>, the latter directed by Gundam<\/em> creator Yoshiyuki Tomino.<\/p>\n

The new show was directed by Yasuhino Imagawa. However, he wasn\u2019t<\/em> the person who came up with G Gundam<\/em>\u2019s bonkers approach, as he explained in a presentation in America in 2002, written up<\/a> on Animefringe<\/em>. Imagawa had loved the original Gundam<\/em>, with its more realistic drama, steering away from simple goodies and baddies towards the messiness and reciprocal cruelty of real war.<\/p>\n

Born in 1961, Imagawa\u2019s early credits included several Tomino titles. He storyboarded on episodes of Zeta Gundam<\/em> and worked on other Tomino mecha shows, with more boarding on 1982\u2019s Xabungle<\/em> and multiple credits on the 1983 fantasy Aura Battler Dunbine<\/em>, where he directed nine episodes. Imagawa also worked on very different anime, such as the \u201880s epic Pro Golfer Saru<\/em>. However, Western fans are likelier to know him for his breakout director gig on a video series that started in 1992. It wasn\u2019t a Tomino anime, but it was most certainly a mecha epic, called Giant Robo<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Brash, spectacular and proudly old-school, Giant Robo<\/em> was a celebration of a vintage manga artist, Mitseru Yokoyama, with the anime featuring many of his strip characters. But it was more than that. The Anime Encyclopedia<\/em> described Giant Robo<\/em> as \u201cthe first of the 1990s retro boom\u2026 anime made in a deliberately old-fashioned style that recalls the imagery of the Golden Age of sci-fi and also reminds baby boomers of their carefree childhoods.\u201d Giant Robo<\/em>\u2019s long production \u2013 the last video episode wasn\u2019t released until 1997 \u2013 encompassed G Gundam<\/em>; small wonder their sensibilities are close.<\/p>\n

As Imagawa explains in the Animefringe <\/em>piece, robot shows, whether silly or serious, have one prime business directive \u2013 to sell robot toys. However, the Gundam <\/em>toys\u2019 sales had dropped in recent years, and the sponsors wanted a show to reinvigorate the brand. Imagawa remembers his own initial designs were scrapped with barely a glance; instead he was presented with the designs that had to be in the anime, along the \u201cnational stereotype\u201d lines described above.<\/p>\n

Imagawa says he was shocked as many of Gundam<\/em>\u2019s long-standing fans were. Animefringe <\/em>quotes him saying, \u201cI was afraid of walking alone at night, since someone might stab me for doing this to Gundam.\u201d He said he retaliated by deliberately designing some of the new Gundams in complicated ways so they couldn\u2019t be recreated as toys\u2026 only they could<\/em> be turned into toys, and were. At that point, Imagawa said, \u201cI lost to the sponsor.\u201d<\/p>\n

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G Gundam<\/em> is the first Gundam without a \u201cUniversal Century\u201d dateline, though the basic set-up has bits of the usual template. Once more, it\u2019s a human conflict, with humans split between those on Earth and those in the stars. This time, though, Earth isn\u2019t a ruthless authority; instead it\u2019s largely in ruins, and its people are an underclass. The rich and successful have moved to space colonies (shades of Blade Runner<\/em>); there are a great many different colonies, each modelled on one of the old Earth nations.<\/p>\n

These colonies still have differences, but they\u2019ve elected to solve them without <\/em>war. Instead, once every four years, there\u2019s a contest where the colonies send out a designated champion in a customised Gundam (as the big robots are called). The ultimate victor will then rule the other colonies until the next contest. Of course, the detail that this happens every four years suggests it\u2019s essentially the Olympics \u2013 an event with special significance in Japan, since the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 symbolised Japan\u2019s revival after World War II.<\/p>\n

Of course, there\u2019s more to the story. We follow Neo Japan\u2019s candidate for the current contest, Domon Kesshu, whose Shining Gundam is decked out in the franchise\u2019s traditional hero colours, blue, white and gold. But Kesshu is on a private mission too, looking for a man in a photo that he thrusts in the face of anyone he meets, asking if they\u2019ve seen him. The backstory is revealed a few episodes in; it concerns the Devil Gundam, a mecha that could conquer all humanity.<\/p>\n

Of course, it\u2019s all proudly preposterous. As with Giant Robo<\/em>, G Gundam<\/em> is harking back to anime and manga from past decades, and especially to those robot shows that Gundam<\/em> had supposedly supplanted, lurid, silly and magical. Even the name \u201cDevil Gundam\u201d would remind viewers of Devilman and his creator Go Nagai, who also devised many robot titans in the 1970s, starting with Mazinger Z<\/em>. The same tradition is championed now by Hiroyuki Imaishi, director of Gurren Lagann<\/em> and Promare<\/em>. As mentioned above, G Gundam<\/em> may be nearer to them than to most of the Gundam<\/em> anime.<\/p>\n

Except\u2026 This wasn\u2019t the first time Gundam<\/em> had scandalised fans by going silly. Eight years before, in 1986, Gundam<\/em>\u2019s creator Yoshiyuki Tomino started Gundam ZZ<\/em> with huge dollops of daftness, putting his characters into ridiculous comedy situations as if to apologise for the death and darkness in his previous shows. It\u2019s questionable if G Gundam <\/em>was much more of a stretch.<\/p>\n

In the event, though, Sunrise would tamp things down again after G Gundam<\/em>. The next Gundam <\/em>series would be none other than Gundam Wing<\/em> in 1995, a far more traditional Gundam<\/em> series and the first to be embraced by American fandom. Subsequent Gundam<\/em>s would follow Gundam Wing<\/em>\u2019s lead far more, leaving G Gundam<\/em> as an outlier\u2026 which is one reasons its fans love it.<\/p>\n

Andrew Osmond is the author of 100 Animated Feature Films<\/a><\/em>. G Gundam<\/em> is released in the UK by Anime Limited.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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